Johanna Weaver was 29 when her decomposed body was found on July 13, 1995, in a wheel rut in the median of the north split near 13th and Lewis streets in Indianapolis. An autopsy determined she had been stabbed multiple times and her body had been set on fire. Investigators recovered a knife believed to be the murder weapon and extracted DNA from her remains that they think belongs to her killer.

Weaver lived in Brightwood and worked as a fast-food cashier while struggling with a crack-cocaine addiction. She was a mother of two young children, an eight-year-old son and a six-year-old daughter, whom she often left with their grandmother. She dropped the children off the weekend of June 30, 1995, failed to return for them the next day, left several voicemails for her mother sounding quiet and scared, and was last possibly seen on July 8 near 17th and Park Street.

Despite the knife and DNA evidence, no arrests have been announced and no suspects publicly identified. The investigation has been hampered by reluctance among people in Weaver’s circles to speak to police, and her case remains open with the Indiana State Police as a cold case. If anyone knew Johanna or has information about her movements in late June and early July 1995, please come forward.