On September 27th, 1996, on the shoulder of the highway outside of Champaign, IL police stop to investigate an abandoned Black Pontiac Bonneville license plate # CADS7. When police approached the vehicle they could tell it hadn't been there long because it was still running, the headlights were still on, the drivers side door was open and inside they found a purse that belonged to a 23 year-old mother named Karyn Slover.