James Paul Freund, 29, and a woman identified in reports as Pamela Mae Buckley were found shot dead on a remote dirt frontage road off Interstate 95 between Sumter and Florence, South Carolina, in the early morning of August 9, 1976. Both victims had been struck three times with a .357 revolver—wounds to the chest, back, and neck—and were discovered fully clothed with no identification, money, or wallets. Personal items and clothing suggested long travel through the American West and Southwest: the man wore a ring engraved JPF, a quality watch, and a Sebring, Florida T-shirt; the woman wore distinctive silver rings with turquoise and coral; a book of matches from a western truck-stop chain was also recovered.

Witnesses later reported possibly seeing the pair dropped from a vehicle near the road. In 1977 police recovered a .357 with a partially filed serial number from a man arrested for drunk driving; ballistics matched it to the Locklair Road bullets, but investigators could not place him at the scene and he was released. A later confession by Henry Lee Lucas was not corroborated.

Does anyone have information about James Paul Freund, Pamela Mae Buckley, their travels in 1976, or the Locklair Road stop between Sumter and Florence?