On the evening of April 11, 1992, Patricia Smith, 23, was working late at La Bride d’Elegance bridal shop on East Kellogg in Wichita, Kansas, alongside the shop owner, 32-year-old Patricia Magers. A man who was not the expected customer entered and shot both women execution-style. The customer who had arranged to pick up a cummerbund escaped unharmed after encountering the armed man and did not call police for about an hour. Magers was found dead at the scene; Smith was taken to a hospital but died shortly after arrival.

Investigators linked this double killing to a string of similar murders along the Interstate 70 corridor that spring, attributing at least six deaths across Kansas, Missouri, and Indiana to an unidentified assailant dubbed the I-70 Killer. The suspect was described as a white male in his late 20s or early 30s at the time, slender, with light brown or reddish hair; a composite sketch was circulated. Decades later there have been no arrests and the case remains an active cold case.

Did anyone who worked at or frequented small businesses along I-70 in 1992 notice a man matching that description or remember an unusual encounter that spring?