A suspect has been identified in the 1972 murder of an Indiana woman who was found in a ditch on the side of the road with her unharmed 3-year-old daughter, police said last week.
Phyllis Bailer and her daughter were traveling from Indianapolis to Bluffton to visit her parents’ house in the summer of 1972 in a borrowed car, according to the Indiana State Police. They never arrived at the home, prompting Bailer’s family to report her missing to police.
The next day, the car was found abandoned on Interstate 69 in Grant County with the hood up, police said.
“Approximately 1 hour later, at 11:37 am, a woman driving on West Road, just north of Schoaff Road in Allen County, found Phyllis Bailer and her daughter along the side of the road in a ditch,” police said. “Phyllis was deceased; her 3-year-old daughter was with her, unharmed.”…