Barbara Ruth Snyder, 26, was born in New Jersey. Precocious and artistic, she wrote poetry and played the French horn in several youth orchestras. Her early interest in the Beatles was the key to a close friendship which led to Barb and her friend leaving home in their mid-teens only to return. Later Barbara moved to San Francisco to live with a cousin, Jane. Barbara’s mother, Jeanne Snyder, said her daughter was attracted to Jane’s “hippy” lifestyle.
While in San Francisco, Barbara became involved with a man named Luther who had previously been in trouble with the law.
Barbara Snyder went missing November 27, 1983. Her body was found nine days later in the East Bay Regional Park District. She had been strangled. Barbara was misidentified at first. It took another week for her parents to be notified.
If you have information which might be helpful in this case, please call Detective Sgt.
Tyrone Davis, 510-881-1833.