It was 2:27AM on June 18, 1982, when police in Harrisonburg, Virginia, received an unsettling call from 20-year-old Kelly Dove.
It was 2:27AM on June 18, 1982, when police in Harrisonburg, Virginia, received an unsettling call from 20-year-old Kelly Dove. A young mother of one, Kelly was working the night shift at the Imperial gas station on South Main Street when she reported receiving an “obscene” phone call that left her feeling alarmed. Calm but clearly uneasy, she asked officers to come to the station to check on a man she had seen loitering outside earlier that night.
“This guy came in earlier,” Kelly explained during the call. “He was kind of dressed improperly, but I kind of ignored him. I think it was that guy because he drove through the parking lot a few seconds before I got the call. Could you, you know, have somebody kinda keep an eye out on me?” Kelly’s mother, Rachel, later said of the call: “She sounds nervous, but not panicky nervous.”
Kelly believed the man, whose behaviour had unsettled her, might have been the caller. Moments after she hung up, she made another call to the police. This time, her voice carried a heightened urgency. The same man had returned, she reported, and he was driving a silver-grey car.
Officers immediately responded to Kelly’s calls and arrived at the Imperial gas station within two minutes of the second call. When they got there, however, Kelly was gone..

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