September 1, 1959: Paul Coates tells the story of Jean Elizabeth Wood, 26, an attractive young woman wearing a black party dress who stood in the middle of a darkened desert highway and refused to move out of the way of an oncoming truck.

Three Los Angeles-area men admitted leaving Wood by a desert highway because she was drunk and obnoxious, but went back to get her. Just as they arrived, she was run down by the truck.