Marjorie Greta Mason was 22 and newly assigned to Little Rock Air Force Base when she was abducted on February 26, 1983, while shopping for furniture. Her body was found the next day near an abandoned farmhouse in a rural area; she had been raped and shot twice in the head.

Investigators pursued two Black men seen fleeing from her stolen car after a police chase. Six days after the body was found, a confidential informant implicated Barry Lee Fairchild and his brother. Fairchild, described in records as functionally illiterate, was arrested; a police dog bit him during the arrest and he needed stitches. He gave two videotaped confessions admitting participation in the kidnapping and rape but denying he fired the shots, then later recanted, claiming deputies had beaten and threatened him to force a confession.

Despite arguments by his attorneys that he was mentally handicapped and that his statements were coerced, Fairchild was convicted of capital murder on August 2, 1983, and sentenced to death. He was executed by lethal injection on August 31, 1995. No other suspect was ever charged; questions about the investigation and who fired the fatal shots remain.

Did anyone who knew Marjorie, or who was in the area that week in 1983, see or hear anything that could shed light on what happened?