Mary Ruth Hopkins, 21, was found murdered on June 30, 1976, in a secluded area near Five Mile Road in Anderson Township, Ohio. Her body was discovered nude with severe facial bruising, patches of hair torn out, and a tank top tightly wrapped around her neck, injuries that indicated she had been strangled. She was a resident of Cincinnati’s East End and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Southgate, Kentucky.

Mary Ruth Hopkins was born February 26, 1955, and was the daughter of Lonnie Sanders and Jacqueline Taylor. The investigation later produced the arrest of 28-year-old Larry Ralston in November 1977; he confessed to multiple murders, including Hopkins, and was sentenced to multiple life terms in 1978 and another life term after a 1984 proceeding.

Are there readers who remember Mary Ruth or have information about her last known movements in the East End area?