DNA evidence identified Carl David Phillips, who died in 2017, as the man who killed Juanita Boyd in Indiana in 1981, police announced
NEED TO KNOW
- On a wintery night in Indiana in 1981, Juanita Boyd got into her Pontiac Catalina but never made it home
- Six days after she was reported missing, her body was found in the trunk of her car, which was stuck in the mud in a rural field
- Now, 45 years later, police announced that they had identified her killer
Nearly five decades ago an Indiana mother vanished on a wintery night, and was later found dead in her trunk. Now police have identified her killer.
Juanita Boyd, 31, of LaPorte, was reported missing on Feb. 22, 1981, after leaving Snyder’s Corner Tavern, WKVI reported…