Agatha White Buffalo, a 34-year-old Lakota mother of eight from the Rosebud Indian Reservation, disappeared in the autumn of 1973 while traveling to Omaha, Nebraska, for a medical appointment. She was described by her children as petite and attentive, washing their clothes by hand and raising them in the Catholic faith. Her family’s circumstances were difficult at the time; after her disappearance her children were placed in foster care when their father was incarcerated and their mother struggled alone.

On November 16, 1973, a man moving barrels behind a business in south Omaha discovered White Buffalo’s body inside a 55-gallon drum. An autopsy found she had been strangled; there was no sexual assault reported. The case remained unsolved for decades with no arrests or suspects reported for forty-five years.

In 2018 authorities linked a confession by Sam Little, a Texas inmate and convicted killer, to the Omaha murder. Little had confessed to killing a woman in Omaha in 1973 and investigators connected that admission to Agatha White Buffalo’s case. Does anyone have memories, leads, or information about Agatha’s trip to Omaha in 1973 that could add context to what happened that autumn?