On the night of September 26, 1997, 18-year-old Kelly Eckart disappeared after finishing a shift at a Franklin, Indiana Walmart and meeting briefly with her boyfriend. Her car was found the next morning abandoned in a rural area with the lights on and keys in the ignition. Four days later, on September 30, her partially nude body was discovered in a ravine in Brown County. An autopsy found she had been raped, strangled with her own shoelace and an overall strap, and shot in the forehead.

Investigators focused on Michael Dean Overstreet of Franklin. Overstreet’s brother told police that Overstreet called him the night Kelly vanished asking for a ride from a hotel; the brother said he drove Overstreet’s van with a girl in the back to a remote wooded area, and that Overstreet later returned alone and moved the body to Brown County. Semen on Eckart matched Overstreet by DNA, and fibers from his van were found on her body. Overstreet was tried, convicted of murder, rape and criminal confinement, and in July 2000 sentenced to death.

Overstreet’s conviction and sentence have been repeatedly appealed. A later court finding declared him incompetent to be executed because of mental illness, meaning execution cannot proceed until a court determines his mental state has improved. Does anyone have relevant memories or information about Kelly’s last night or the areas between Franklin and Brown County?