Janeice Langs, 24, vanished from Elkhart, Indiana, after an ordinary day on November 8, 1973. She’d had breakfast with her parents, worked a full day at Avco Financial Services, and gave a friend a ride home — that ride was the last confirmed sighting. Her parents reported her missing two days later. Two months earlier she had ended her engagement to Gerald Casimer Libertowski Jr. and moved back in with her parents.

In April 1976 investigators found parts of Janeice’s 1972 Mercury Montego in a garage behind a burned farmhouse in Elwood; the car had been cut apart with a torch. Attention focused on Libertowski after a former business partner said Libertowski confessed to killing Janeice and had arranged to have the car dismantled. A pill bottle prescribed to Janeice and the wallet of another missing woman, Janis Sanders, were found hidden in Libertowski’s crawl space, and traces of blood were detected in a drain. Libertowski was charged in Janeice’s death and in Sanders’s disappearance; he was acquitted in Janeice’s case and charges in Sanders’s case were dropped. Janeice has been declared deceased and foul play is suspected, but no body has been recovered.

Did anyone in Elkhart or Elwood at the time recall seeing the Mercury or unusual activity around the burned farmhouse in the spring of 1976?