A week later, 23-year-old Elizabeth Kenyon vanished from a Coral Gables shopping centre. The former Orange Bowl queen was a finalist in the 1982 Miss Florida contest and had been dating Wilder off and on. During the Grand Prix, Kenyon spurned his offer of marriage out of respect to the wishes of her parents, who objected to the sixteen-year age difference between the two. Following Kenyon’s disappearance, a gas station attendant told the woman’s parents that he had seen Wilder in the girl’s company. The distraught father pleaded with the FBI to place Wilder under surveillance, but the agents refused on the grounds of insufficient evidence and hearsay.

                                                               Elizabeth Kenyon