Mary Robin Walter was 23 when she was found shot multiple times in her Nelson Trailer Park home in Great Bend, Kansas, on the evening of January 24, 1980. A wife, mother of a five-year-old daughter and a nursing student at Barton County Community College, Walter’s body was discovered in a back bedroom by her husband, who alerted authorities. Investigators recovered a .22-caliber handgun at the scene that was determined to be the murder weapon.

Suspicion early on focused on a neighbor, Steven L. Hanks, then 25, but investigators lacked sufficient evidence to charge anyone and the case went cold for decades. A fresh review of the file and evidence was opened in April 2022, and Hanks was interviewed again during that renewed investigation.

Does anyone who lived in Great Bend in 1980 remember Mary Robin Walter, her family, or anything about that night that could help fill gaps in the timeline?