Carla Maxwell was 20 when she was found shot to death inside the 7-Eleven on North Main Street in Layton, Utah. A truck driver discovered her body about 4 a.m. on April 25, 1986; she had been working as a clerk and was last seen alive around 1:30 a.m. She was white, with brown hair and blue eyes, and had been fatally shot in the head.

Ballistics linked the .38-caliber handgun that killed Carla to at least two other Salt Lake area murders: 18-year-old Christine Gallegos in May 1985 and 25-year-old Lisa Strong in May 1986. That pattern led to a multi-agency task force forming in July 1986. Investigators later examined several leads, including possible involvement by Paul Ezra Rhoades and connections to a Salt Lake gang called Varrios Chosen Few; a pawn slip for the murder weapon surfaced in early 1987, and Forrest Whittle was later convicted in Lisa Strong’s killing.

No arrests have been made in Carla Maxwell’s murder. Did anyone who knew Carla or worked that stretch of North Main Street remember anything from the early hours of April 25, 1986?