PAULA ELLIS STRANGLED AFTER 1973 DIRT BAND SHOW

IN THE freewheeling days of 1973, Paula Ellis was an 18-year-old high-spirited girl from Miami, Florida and a freshman at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa. On April 21, 1973 Paula left her residence at Martha Parham Hall rode her bike to a midnight concert by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. On Easter Sunday--the next day--her body was found 10 miles away. She had been strangled and dumped from a bridge. No one has ever been arrested in this terrible murder. If you have any information regarding this case, please contact

LEESA JO SHANER'S KILLER CONVICTED AFTER 38 YRS.

BYE, BYE SANTA. He is 57 now and will spend the rest of his days behind bars. Almost 40 years after the May 29, 1973 murder of young wife Leesa Jo Shaner in Tucson, her killer has been convicted. Shaner was waiting at the Tucson International Airport for her husband to return from a business trip when sick William Floyd Zamastil kidnapped, raped and murdered her. Her body was discovered in a remote area four months later. The FBI said in a press release:
“The jury’s verdict in this case may finally bring some peace to the Shaner family knowing her murderer has been held