James Ezra Robinson, 38, and his wife Nancy vanished from Winters Creek Equestrian Ranch in Washoe Valley, Nevada, after being last seen on the property on March 6, 1982. Customers who rode that day were invited back to finish their trip; when they returned March 7 the ranch was locked and appeared deserted. On the morning of March 8 a construction worker found a broken window, blood on the front steps and called authorities.

Inside the couple’s residence investigators reported large pools of blood and signs of a violent struggle. Several expensive saddles and some jewelry were missing while other valuables were left. The Robinsons’ truck was later found abandoned on Highway 50 with a flat tire, blood inside, and a few of the missing items. Guns recovered from the home and truck had not been fired. Three months earlier the ranch’s main house had burned in a fire suspected to be arson; the Robinsons were due for polygraph exams about that blaze before they disappeared.

No one has been charged in connection with the fire or the disappearance, and James and Nancy have not been seen or heard from since March 1982. Did anyone in the Washoe Valley area know the Robinsons or notice unusual activity around the ranch in early March 1982?