Leopold Lynwood Chromak disappeared on July 26, 1975. Two days later, his wife contacted police and reported him missing. "But Mr. Chromak was never located, never returned home, " said Lucille Baur, of Montgomery County police. In 1984, a detective got information that the missing person case was actually a murder-for-hire and that Chromak's wife, Frances, hired three men - Griffin, Smitty and Bobby Coley - to kill her husband because he abused and beat her, according to the 1984 warrant. They allegedly smothered Chromak at Winexburg Manor Apartments, wrapped his body in a rug or carpet, took it to a van, and dumped it along Central Avenue.