Elena Sanchez Hawkins was 29 and the mother of two when she was found murdered in her Elizabethtown, Kentucky, home on the morning of January 8, 1992. Her husband Michael had left for work; a later call was answered by their three-year-old, who said mommy’s bleeding. Elena had been sexually assaulted, her hands bound, and her throat slit, dying from extreme blood loss. Her young son was physically unharmed. Investigators found no sign of forced entry and quickly ruled out Michael as a suspect.

A neighbor reported seeing an older-model black Datsun pickup with a metal topper and tie-down hooks leaving the residence around 7:30 a.m., but that vehicle and driver were never located. Elena had also told her husband about a man at her gas-station job who made her uncomfortable. In 2008 a woman in a neighboring county survived a similar attack and identified her neighbor, Ernest D. Pine, who had lived in Elizabethtown in 1992 and was named a person of interest; it is unclear whether he was ever formally questioned or charged. The case remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Elena, the black Datsun, or has information about the man who made her uncomfortable at the gas station, please come forward.