Police described the killings as "extremely vicious."
On a July morning in 1963. a fisherman found the bullet-riddled bodies of a young couple in a secluded "lover's lane" off route 96 just north of Bushnell's Basin.
Shari Smoyer, 18, had been shot twice in the back and bludgeoned about the head. Jack King, 17, was shot once in the back of the head and two or three times in the lower body.
On Tuesday, investigators with the Monroe County Sheriff's Office asked for the public's help in solving the 55-year old double homicide. They're hoping that someone will come forward with new information that can help bring some closure to the case.
Throughout the course of the investigation, hundreds of tips have been received, resulting in thousands of interviews. Newspaper reports from the months and years after the killings indicate that several suspects were questioned, but officials said Tuesday that no arrests have been made to date.
Investigators don't believe the victims had any prior issues or arguments with anyone earlier that evening, and neither victim had been robbed or sexually abused.
The couple had attended a screening of the movie Mutiny on the Bounty at the Starlite drive-in in Henrietta. They were last confirmed to be alive at approximately 1:00 a.m. July 14, 1963, when seen driving through the village of Pittsford toward Bushnell's Basin.
Bullets and shell casings collected from the scene indicated the murder weapon was a .45-caliber Colt pistol, but the murder weapon was not recovered from the scene.
Smoyer lived with her parents on Red Barn Circle in Perinton and worked at E.W. Edwards & Sons department store to earn money for college. A 1962 graduate of West High School, she was a physiotherapy major at Ithaca College where she had just completed her freshman year.
King had just graduated from Avon Central High School but had spent three-and-a-half years at Geneseo Central, where he played baseball and football. The second oldest of eight children, King had been accepted for admission to St. John Fisher College. He had a summer job with a Rochester company laying asphalt driveways.
MCSO continues to actively investigate this crime in an effort to identify a suspect. Anyone with information on this case is urged to call the MCSO Tip Line at (585) 753-4175 or 911.