Great Bend ? Lamar Advertising is trying to help solve a 2002 double homicide at a Dolly Madison Bakery outlet store in Great Bend.

The company is donating at least one, and possibly as many as three, billboards showing the composite drawing of a man seen in the area where Mary A. Drake and Mandi K. Alexander were killed on Sept. 4, 2002. The sign also will give a detailed description of the “person of interest.”

J.W. Jaco, a Great Bend resident and vice president of Kansas Crime Stoppers, learned about Lamar’s program offering free billboard space for homicide cold cases when he attended the spring meeting of the Kansas Crime Stoppers board.

The last break in the bakery case came in November 2007, when Great Bend police used new technology to enhance an image of a blonde-haired white male from a surveillance camera near the bakery. That person was quickly identified, but the lead was a dead end.

Since the sign program started nationally, 16 people have been arrested for murder.