$6,000 reward offered in 1982 Travis County cold case murder

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A $6,000 reward is now being offered in a cold case murder where a woman was found shot to death in a field in northeast Travis County in 1982.
Ruth Elizabeth Bettis was last seen the night of Nov. 24, 1982. She was a 19-year-old college student who worked part-time at Sugar’s, a well-known strip club on Highland Mall Boulevard in Austin.
Witnesses that night told authorities Bettis left the club after her shift and had gotten into a car with an unknown black man. The