t was a warm, sunny Sunday morning on the cusp of spring when Teresa Ferguson set out from her home in Indian Harbor Beach, Fla.
for the shopping mall nearby. Terry, 21, stepdaughter of the local police captain, was an attractive woman with long, dark hair who worked in a factory that specialized in silk-screened T-shirts while she waited for the fulfillment of her life's ambition: to become a model. That morning at the mall she met a man with the promises she wanted to hear.
Two days later, on March 20, 300 miles northwest in Tallahassee, a blond, 19-year-old Florida State student
disappeared from a shopping mall near the campus with a man who offered her a modeling assignment. When she demurred, he forced her into his car, beat her, bound and gagged her and forced her into a sleeping bag, which he stuffed into the trunk of his car.
From April 30, 1984 Archive of People Magazine:
http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20087690,00.html