Just The Tip-sters

One day in March 1980, a member of the U.S. Army (her rank still not clear) named Tamara Tigard, who was living (or was she stationed?) in Las Vegas, went for a walk.  And then vanished.  One month later, 1,200 miles away near the small town of Jones, Oklahoma – on Tamara’s 21st birthday, as it happens – the unclothed body of a young woman was found in a shallow grave on the banks of the North Canadian River.  The body had been covered with “wet” lime, which, intentionally or not, had acted to preserve the body to a remarkable degree.  Even so, authorities could not identify the body – and no reported missing persons reports matched the dead woman’s description, so “The Lime Lady,” as she came to be known, was buried in an unmarked grave there in Central Oklahoma, leaving law enforcement with a mystery that would last for the next four decades.  Almost exactly four decades, as it turns out.  Because in 2020, through the unending determination of the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, in particular Captain Bob