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Arthur Leon Ransford, 36, vanished from his Keokuk, Iowa, home late in 1983; his wife reported him missing on Tuesday, November 22, 1983. After nearly six months missing, his body was found on Sunday, May 13, 1984, in a wooded area overlooking the Mississippi River a couple of miles south of Montrose, Iowa.

Ransford was a Vietnam veteran and a father of two. His body was discovered inside a large yellow bag, concealed beneath cement blocks on a river bluff. An autopsy determined he had been shot in the head, and the missing person investigation was reclassified as a homicide.

No arrests are recorded in connection with the killing, and the case is described as unsolved. Did anyone in the area around Keokuk or Montrose during late 1983 and spring 1984 notice anything that could help solve this case?