Barbara Blackstone was 30 when she disappeared from the Lyndon Station area on the afternoon of July 9, 1987, after filling her car and a can with gas to finish mowing a strip of land on property she shared with her husband. Her car stayed at the house, her purse and the family dog were left behind, and by early evening she was missing. A search began the next day and expanded to include a helicopter ordered by Governor Tommy Thompson.

On August 5 a hunter found human remains in a wooded area south of Blanchardville in Lafayette County, more than seventy miles from where she was last seen; dental records identified the remains as Barbara’s. The body had been exposed to heat and scavengers, and investigators said a definitive cause of death could not be determined. The location lay a few miles from where she had grown up.

The case has never been solved. Files moved from county to state hands, the investigation was reopened in 2009, and a reward was offered. Retired Sheriff Gervase Thompson later said he believed Barbara likely knew her killer, noting there were no obvious signs of a struggle at the property and the abduction appeared efficient. No arrest has been made.

Did anyone in the Lyndon Station or Blanchardville area have contact with Barbara on July 9, 1987, or information about travel between those counties that summer?