She disappeared on the afternoon of Saturday, June 29, 1991, after dropping her two sons off at their grandmother's house to run a shopping errand. Her husband later found her car parked in their apartment building's garage with a cold engine.
Around 3:00 AM the following morning, a security guard named Joe Jones noticed a suspicious man near a commercial dumpster in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. After the man, who had visible blood on his hands and clothing, gave Jones twenty dollars and fled, Jones followed a blood trail to the dumpster and found her remains.
An autopsy revealed that she had been stabbed nine times. Her body had been stripped of clothing, but medical examiners found no physical evidence of sexual assault.
Yes. The security guard described the man as a white male wearing wire-framed glasses. He also noted that the suspect drove away in a blue Nissan and provided police with a partial license plate number.
Detectives found a blue Nissan matching the partial plate, but it belonged to a college student who had an ironclad alibi. The vehicle's engine was cold, and forensic technicians found no blood or biological traces linking it to the crime.