Shamekka Garnette was 20 when she disappeared from Alexandria, Louisiana after leaving a party on Old Boyce Road on the night of Friday, August 13, 2004. She was seen leaving at about 11:30 p.m. in a friend’s vehicle. The vehicle later turned up abandoned on the on-ramp to I-49 at Lee Street in Alexandria.

Four days later, on August 17, 2004, her body was found near a drainage ditch off Old Boyce Road, not far from where she had been last seen alive. The Rapides Parish Sheriff’s Office lists the case as an unsolved homicide; no suspects have been publicly identified and no arrests have been announced.

Investigators and the community have noted a possible connection to the murder of her friend Courtney Coco, who was killed less than two months later, though officials have not confirmed a link. Does anyone who was in the Old Boyce Road area on August 13 to 17, 2004 remember unusual activity or the vehicle found at the I-49 on-ramp?