Christine Pilczak was 26 when she and colleague and friend Joan Zwingman traveled from New Jersey to Virginia Beach for a work convention. The pair were last seen on the evening of August 18, 1983. The next day, August 19, both women’s bodies were found floating in the Chesapeake Bay by operators of a pilot boat and recovered after the Coast Guard was notified.

Neither woman was dressed for swimming; both were found in street clothing and had injuries that indicated they had been harmed before entering the water. The official cause of death for both was listed as drowning, and investigators classified the deaths as homicides. No suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced, leaving the case in the Virginia Beach Police Department’s cold files.

Does anyone have memories of Christine or Joan in Virginia Beach that night or information that could help finally close this case?