Elizabeth Ann Betty Jirsa Pratt, 55, and her husband Harold David Hal Pratt were found shot to death near their campsite in Pinal County, Arizona. The couple had been camped in a remote area roughly 75 miles southeast of Phoenix; hunters discovered their bodies west of Oracle Junction on December 10, 1981. Investigators concluded both had been shot, and later reports say an assailant bound their hands with rope and shot them in the head in what was described as execution-style killings. Their pickup truck was taken from the scene and later abandoned in Yuma.

The case initially remained unsolved and a $5,000 reward was offered. Later investigative work linked a series of campsite murders across western states to Robert Wayne Danielson Jr., a recently paroled felon who was identified through ballistics, witness statements and stolen-vehicle use. A teenage companion, Lenora Hart Johnson, told investigators Danielson had confessed to multiple killings that matched the Pratts’ case. Does anyone have memories of the Pratts or information about their time camping in that part of Pinal County?