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The Locust Road Murder: Who Killed Phyllis Bohle?
Investigators are frustrated that the cold case that ‘could have happened to anyone’ remains unsolved.
Maryland detectives have vowed never to give up on their mission to find the killer of a young woman brutally murdered in 1974, despite the passage of time since the crime that shocked a community.
Phyllis Bohle was 23 and the eldest of four siblings, although she had married and moved to her own home in Severn a short while before.
The couple lived on an old dirt track named Locust Road, a rural location that might have seemed peaceful at first but was to become the site of the most terrible tragedy one spring weekend.
A hell of a struggle
March 25th 1974 brought Maryland Day celebrations for the Old Line State, and Phyllis was no doubt pleased to have the day off from her job at what was then the DMV.
She planned to spend her holiday shopping with a friend, but the time they had agreed to meet that morning came and went and there was no sign of her, which was uncharacteristic.
The friend went to Phyllis’s home to see what was wrong — and was confronted from a scene straight from a nightmare.
