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Peggy Ann Lerch was 24 when she and her husband Christopher were last seen in Columbus, Ohio on August 14, 1982. The couple had been at the apartment of a man they considered a friend, William Dean Wickline Jr., where heavy drinking and cocaine use were reported. Neither Peggy nor Christopher were seen again and their bodies have never been recovered.

A key witness, Wickline’s then-girlfriend Theresa Kemp, later said a dispute over a $6,000 drug debt led Wickline to kill Christopher by slitting his throat, then strangle Peggy while Kemp held Peggy’s legs. Investigators reported blood in Wickline’s bathtub and human tissue on a folding saw; Kemp testified Wickline dismembered the bodies and discarded remains in city dumpsters. Wickline was convicted in 1985 for both killings, receiving life for Christopher and the death penalty for Peggy; extensive searches failed to locate the couple’s remains.

Who in Columbus in 1982 remembers Peggy and Christopher, or has any information about locations where remains might have been discarded?