Harmon's murder was solved in 2010 when DNA from the individual who raped her was matched to Robert Anthony Buell.

[2][3] Tina Harmon was reportedly last seen with a man in his twenties after she had been dropped off by her father's girlfriend in Lodi, Ohio.

[4] Harmon's body was later found next to an oil well site in Navarre, Ohio, five days after her abduction.

[5][6][7] In 1982, Ernest Holbrook, Jr. and Herman Ray Rucker were convicted of both the rape and murder of Harmon, but after complications with the witnesses' testimonies, one of them recanted.

[8] In 2009, when the Harmon case was reopened, it was stated Buell's profile was obtained, but they did not have Tina's.