In November 1978 children found a young woman’s body beneath leaves and a log on a logging road off Amherst Street in Granby, Massachusetts. She had been shot in the temple and investigators estimated she had been killed months earlier, likely in August. For decades she was known only as the Granby Girl and was buried under a headstone reading Unknown.

Advances in DNA and forensic genealogy produced a genetic profile that led investigators to a relative in Maryland and from there to a son who had been five when his mother vanished. A DNA comparison confirmed a perfect parent‑child match, and the unidentified woman was finally named as 28‑year‑old Patricia Ann Tucker, who had been using her married name Patricia Coleman at the time of her disappearance. Patricia was married to Gerald Coleman and the couple lived in East Hampton, Connecticut. The son said Coleman dropped him off at an acquaintance’s in August 1978 and he never saw his mother again. Authorities have publicly named Gerald Coleman as a person of interest; he died in a Massachusetts prison in 1996 while serving time for other violent crimes.

Many questions about Patricia’s final months remain unanswered. Does anyone have information about Patricia’s life in 1978 or her movements in Connecticut and Massachusetts?