Murder of Eileen Virginia Standley

At 5:10 pm on August 6, 1978, 53-year-old Eileen Standley's boyfriend came to her apartment at 415 W. Haskell Place #B Osage Hills Apartments in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Inside he found Eileen dead in her bathroom.  She was partially nude and her throat was slit. The crime may have been sexually motivated. There were signs of forced entry into the apartment, but there were no signs of a struggle inside. 

SOURCES:

Tulsa Police

Uncovered

Oklahoma Cold Cases

Tulsa World August 7, 1978

The Daily Oklahoman August 10, 1978

Suspicious Death of Michael "J.T." McGuire

On May 2, 1978, 34-year-old Michael "J.T." McGuire's body was found in a wooded area on Albuquerque Road in Litchfield, New Hampshire. It's unknown what his cause of death was, but it is suspicious. He was in a secluded part of the woods. 

J.T. was from Lowell, Massachusetts, and was believed to have been a Hells Angel. 

SOURCES: 

New Hampshire Department of Justice

Concord Monitor May 4, 1978

Lucky 7 Pirated TV station

Made in Bing Creator

On April 14, 1978, The Lucky Seven Channel first broadcasted in Syracuse, New York. It's believed that it was the first pirated TV station in the United States. It would broadcast on the unused channel 7 for only 3 nights. It was said to have been well-done and even a logo for the station was good. It was a dice rolled to a seven and a jingle was also recorded with an all-female chorus. 

 It played in various films and TV shows. Some examples were Rocky, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Star Trek, Twilight Zone, and the porno Deep Throat. Between the films, a man would wear a gas mask with a noose around his neck would editorialize. Production is said to have been surprisingly well done, with even a logo for the station being a die that rolled to a seven. A jingle was also recorded, featuring what sounded like an all-female chorus.

It's unknown who did this, but it was suspected that it was some students at Syracuse University. It seemed that the signal was strongest in the surrounding neighborhood. This pirated channel was reported in the news at the time. However, there are no known recordings of this at this time. 

SOURCES:

Lost Media Wiki

Wikipedia

The Ithaca Journal April 18, 1978

Ocala-Star Journal April 20, 1978

The Philidelphia Inquirer June 5, 1978

Murder of Diana Jones

On April 4, 1978, Diana Jones was found dead in her home at 231 E. Tecumseh St in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She was shot to death. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:

City of Tulsa

Uncovered

Disappearance of Marilyn Denice Waltz

On January 7, 1978, 25-year-old Marilyn Waltz was last seen in Bakersfield, California. She was reported missing that same day by her family. There is little information in this case. 

Marilyn is a white female and was 25-years-old at the time. She is 5'4" and 145 lbs. She has red/Auburn hair and green eyes. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

California Department of Justice

Charley Project

Doe Network

Disappearance of Richard Ernest Medley

In 1978 27-year-old Richard Ernest Medley was last seen in Houston, Texas. There is little information in this case. 

Richard is a White/Hispanic man and was 27-years-old at the time. He's 5'6" and 165 lbs. He has black hair and brown eyes. 

SOURCES:

NamUs

Murder of Erika Farrant

On August 7, 1978, Erika Farrant was murdered in Anchorage, Alaska. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:
Great State of Alaska

Project Cold Case

August 1, 1978 Sea Isle City, New Jersey

In August of 1978, a partial right maxilla was found in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. It was not brought to the police until July 7, 2014

Gender and race is unknown, but it's believed that hey were between 25 to 60-years-old.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Murder of Vickie Lynn Brekke

On May 7, 1978, 15-year-old Vickie Brekke would leave her home at 3612 Braddock St. in Las Vegas, Nevada. She had called her friend and was supposed to arrive at her friend's home around 5:30 p.m., but would never arrive.

The next day Vickie's body would be discovered in the desert area to the east of Sunrise Mountain East Lake Mead Blvd. approximately 6 miles east of Mt. Hood. Vickie had been strangled to death in a different place and her body was dumped in the 4ft drop. She was not beaten nor sexually assaulted.

SOURCES:
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Find a Grave
Reno-Gazette Journal May 9, 1978
Images of news articles
Las Vegas Sun January 2, 2022

Murder of Susana Thatcher

On the evening of  December 7, 1978, 52-year-old Susana Thatcher was last seen by family member in the area of Eastern and Dundalk Avenues in Baltimore, Maryland. In the early hours of December 8th, she would give a call to a  friend and tell them that she was going to travel to their apartment in the Mt. Washington area of Baltimore. That night she was not driving and it was unknown how she was going to attempt to travel.

Around 4:20 a.m. on December 8th police received a call of a body being found in the area of Norris Lane and Trappe Rd. This was when Susana's body was found and someone had strangled her to death. She had died less than 3 hours before. Her daughter would report her missing later that day and she was identified the next day.

SOURCES:

Baltimore County Government

The Baltimore Sun December 9, 1978

The Baltimore Sun December 10, 1978

Murder of Wilma Scribner

On November 2, 1977, 43-year-old Wilma Scribner was reported missing by her husband. She went missing with their dark green, wood-paneled 1968 Ford LTD Squire station wagon with a roof rack and Ver mont license plates C-8037.

On March 21, 1979, her body would be found in Otter Creek in the Town of Weybridge, Vermont. It was found that she had been strangled to death. In October the Ford would be found in the same creek up from where her body was found. 

SOURCES:

Vermont State Police

The Burlington Free Press March 23, 1979

Rutland Daily Herald October 3, 1979

Murder of Robert Louis Alsbrook

On August 8, 1978 30-year-old Robert Alsbrook sat in his car in the parking lot of the former Cabarrus Count Fairgrounds on Cabarrus Ave West, Concord, North Carolina. While sitting in his car he was shot, and then he would run from his vehicle to a tent revival located across from the fairgrounds on Union Cemetary Rd. This was when he was shot a second time. This would lead to his death. 

SOURCES:

Cabarrus County

February 11, 1978 Harris County, Texas

 

On Feb. 11, 1978, the body of a young woman was found in Harris County, Texas. There is little information in this case. 

She was an African American woman between 16 to 25-years-old. She was 5'3" to 5'7". She was wearing green and red plaid pants, a muscle shirt, a button-down sleeveless blouse, and a yellow-green sandal, and a size 7 1/2 gold wedding band. She had a gold cap on her right lateral incisor.

SOURCES:

NamUs

Texas Department of Public Saftey 

Unidentified Wiki

Murder of Michael Keljikian

 Around 1 p.m on Jan. 19, 1978, Rockingham County Sheriff arrived at a home on McCrillis Rd. in Nottingham, New Hampshire. The body of 25-year-old Michael Keljikian was found. He had died from a single shotgun blast, but a manner of death could not be reached. Investigation indicated that it was a homicide. 

Micheal was from Revere, Massachusetts. 

SOURCES:

New Hampshire Department of Justice

Murder of Margaret and Bruce Moser

 

On Jan. 4 1978 20-year-old Bruce Moser left work to pick up his wife, 22-year-old Margaret, at their home located at State Road 3, 1/8 mile north of Wells and Blackford County Line in Indiana. No one would hear from the couple for a couple of days.

When they were found both Margaret and Bruce had been murdered, but their 2-year-old daughter was unharmed. Bruce's hands were tied behind his back with boot laces in the living room near the front door. He had been shot in the head. It's believed that the killer was interrupted by Bruce when he came home.  Margaret was tied to the bed with only a torn shirt on. She had been raped and shot in the head. The gun used was Bruce's .22 caliber single-shot rifle. The home was also robbed. It's unknown if the killer or killers initially intended to kill the couple.

SOURCES:

Indiana State Police (Margaret)

Indiana State Police (Bruce)

Find a Grave (Bruce)

Find a Grave (Margaret)

Medium

South Bend Tribune Jan 7, 1978

The Daily Journal Jan. 7, 1978

The Star Press Jan. 10, 1978

Murders of Barbara Nantais

 

On the night of August 13, 1978, 15-year-old Barbra Nantais and her boyfriend went to Torrey Pines State Beach in California. When they were sleeping in their sleeping bags together on the beach they were attacked. On the morning of August 13, 1978, someone walking on the beach found Barbra's body. Police would come and find her boyfriend semi-conscious with a severe head injury and no memory of the night.

Her boyfriend's head was beaten with a rock and a log from the fire near them. Barbara's death had been so much more brutal. She had been beaten and strangled and sexually assaulted. The sand was found in her mouth. Her body would be mutilated as one of her breasts had been severed. The killer would then drag her nude body near the lifeguard tower and positioned her to spread eagle.


In 1984 there was an extremely similar murder of 14-year-old Claire Hough on the same beach. It's likely that the two were murdered by the same person.


SOURCES:

City of San Diego (Barbara)
CBS 8 Jan 20, 2020
CBS News

Murder of Corina Lydia Contreraz

 

At 3 a.m. on December 22, 1978, 16-year-old Corina Contreraz left a friend's home in Billings, Montana. A bus driver would later find her body near the Pryor Creek Interchange on I-90 where Pryor Creek Rd. intersects with Indian creek Rd. 

SOURCES:

Find A Grave

Yellowstone County Cold Cases

Yellowstone County Cold Cases

Billings Gazette December 23, 1978

Billings Gazette 

October 20, 1978 Conway, Arkansas John Doe

 On October 20, 1978, a partial skull was found in a wooded area in Conway, Arkansas. It's believed that the skull belongs to an Asian male between 15 and 20 years old. There is little information in this case.

SOURCES:

NamUs

October 10, 1978 Battleboro, North Carolina John Doe

 On October 10, 1978, a skull was found in a swamp in Battleboro, North Carolina. They would have died sometime that year. He was an African American male between 40 to 50-years-old.

SOURCES:

NamUs

The Possible Homicide of Roy

 A witness came forward stating when they were a child, around 6-years-old, witnessed the murder of a man named Roy. He had been beaten to death with a fire poker and buried in a wooded area behind the witness's home in one of 6 states they lived in. 

Roy was a white male. He was a caretaker of a farm for an older white woman possibly named Quincey. He would have died between 1975 to 1979. It could have happened in Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, or Texas.

SOURCES:

Georgia Bureau of Investigation