Mary Kilpatrick was 27 when she was killed in DeKalb County, Georgia, on the night of September 26, 2020. Surveillance video captured her at a motel with 41-year-old Gerald Jerome Clark of Stone Mountain; their relationship is not specified. Investigators say Clark confined Kilpatrick in the trunk of her car, drove to a friend’s house where witnesses heard a woman banging and crying from the trunk, and pointed a gun at the trunk to silence her. A witness briefly intervened and Clark left the scene.

Firefighters found a body in the trunk after extinguishing the blaze; DNA identified the victim as Mary Kilpatrick and an autopsy indicated she was still alive when the fire was started. If anyone has information about Mary, her movements that night, or the people involved, please share it with the DeKalb County authorities.