Robert Paglia, 40, was found dead in the trunk of his own gold Cadillac in a Holiday Inn parking lot in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, on January 6, 1985. The cause of death was a single gunshot wound to the head. He owned a sheet metal company in Revere and was described as a successful businessman; his killing shocked the local community and his family.

The case went cold for many years with no arrests publicly identified despite investigators following numerous leads. In 2012 Massachusetts State Police and the Essex County District Attorney’s office arrested Paglia’s wife, then living in Georgia and reported to be 69 and remarried, after a renewed investigation produced evidence leading to charges. Prosecutors later alleged a motive tied to escaping an unhappy marriage and collecting a life insurance policy; a jury convicted her of first-degree murder in 2014 and the conviction was upheld on appeal in 2017, with a life-without-parole sentence.

Did anyone in Lynnfield or Revere at the time remember unusual activity around the Holiday Inn or the Paglia family in the weeks before January 6, 1985?