Nancy Stewart Wilke was twenty years old and married. She worked at the Pic'N'Save grocery store on Knight Avenue in Waycross. After finishing her shift on August 12, 1967 she went home, changed clothes, and returned to the store to shop. She and a bagboy carried out her groceries, and she locked her purse in the car before returning to the store to check her work schedule. She was never seen again after she left the store. Her car, with the groceries and her purse found inside, was still in the parking lot of the grocery store.