Baird was last seen at the Fina gas station in the 200 block of south Highway 89 in East Layton, Utah on July 4, 1975. She was employed there as a service station attendant. A police officer on patrol saw her there, and at 5:30 p.m., less than fifteen minutes later, she was discovered missing. Her car was found locked and parked in the station lot where she'd left it, and her purse was inside the station, containing all the cash from a recently cashed check. Baird left behind a four-year-old son. It's considered unlikely that she would have left of her own free will.

Authorities believe Baird was a victim of the serial killer Theodore Robert "Ted" Bundy, who was executed in Florida in 1989. He was convicted of several murders and is suspected in scores more, including in the disappearances of Ann Marie Burr, Lynette Culver, Julie Cunningham, Susan Curtis, Georgeann Hawkins, Vicki Hollar, Rita Jolly, Debra Kent, Donna Manson, Denise Oliverson, Nancy Wilcox and other young women. The women continue to be listed as missing persons. Their remains have never been recovered.

Above: Bundy, circa 1980s