By Jessica Farrish
The Register-Herald Jan 10, 2021
Theresa Ann Woods
West Virginia State Police are investigating a new but undisclosed lead in the 1986 disappearance and death of an Oak Hill girl, State Police Cpl. J. Kincaid said last week.
Theresa Ann Woods was 14 and a new student at Collins Middle School when she disappeared Feb. 20, 1986, reportedly from a gas station beside the now-closed school.
Later that year in June, two men were looking for fishing bait when they found her remains at the bottom of a cliff near Laurel Creek in Fayette County.
Over the years, the State Police, Oak Hill Police Department and Fayette County Sheriffâs Department have searched for the girlâs killer. Her father, Donald âHankâ Woods, of Kimberly, died in August 2014 without knowing what had happened to Theresa.