Lois Ann Williams was 35 when she and her teenage daughter Karen vanished from their Indianapolis apartment on January 25, 1967. Their absence went unnoticed until Lois’s out-of-state parents reported them missing on February 9 after failing to contact them for two weeks. Officers who entered the 7100 block of East 21st Street apartment found signs of a sudden departure: a lamp left on, a schoolbook open on a table, both women’s coats still in the closet despite cold January weather, and personal belongings untouched.

Attention early in the inquiry centered on local service station owner Melvin Chelcie Ted Carr. Lois had taken her 1957 Pontiac to his station; the car was later found there with mud on the tires. A neighbor who worked at the station said he saw Lois leave with Carr on the evening she disappeared and that Carr returned alone about two hours later, appearing angry.

Carr’s 1977 death, and the discovery of three victims in his car trunk, strengthened investigators’ view of him as a serial predator; a subsequent excavation of his property did not recover the Williamses. Lois and Karen have never been located and are presumed to have met with foul play. Does anyone have memories of the 7100 block of East 21st Street in 1967 or information about Lois or Karen that could help resolve what happened?