Crime & Justice

Grainy Pic Was Only Clue in 40-Year-Old Cold Case—Until Now

COLD CASE

Reeves K. Johnson vanished from his cabin in 1983. A mystery man picked up his last paycheck.

Pilar Melendez
Pilar Melendez 

Senior National Reporter

A collage of photographs of Reeves Johnson.
Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Getty Images and Courtesy Kittery Police Department/Murder, She Told
Pilar Melendez

Pilar Melendez

Senior National Reporter

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