Barbara Nelson was 34 when she was abducted from the Mini Stop-N-Shop in the Town of Albion, near Edgerton, Wisconsin, on August 5, 1982. Married with a 3-year-old daughter, she vanished while working; investigators believe she was killed the following day. Witnesses reported seeing a stopped older pickup east of Elkhorn the day after her disappearance and described a person being forced into the cab while two men got into the truck.

Nelson’s partially decomposed remains were found on August 10 in a cornfield along Bray Road, about three miles east of Elkhorn. She had been shot twice and suffered severe blunt trauma to the head and face. Investigators recovered her shoes several miles from the body and the base of an automobile jack stamped with the letter U near that location.

Detectives developed composite sketches of two male suspects and a distinctive dark blue or dark green older-model pickup — possibly a 1961 or 1962 Studebaker Champ — with a flared rail on the bed and a discolored square on the driver’s door. Evidence was submitted for modern DNA testing in 2015, and the case remains an active unsolved homicide. If anyone knew Barbara, the distinctive truck, or the two men seen that day, what can be added to the record?