Curtis Lee Brown was 21 when he left his Atlanta home on the evening of December 14, 1985 to buy cigarettes and never returned. His body was found hours later in Dean Rusk Park; he had been shot multiple times in the head and his pants were pulled down, suggesting a possible sexual assault. For four days the victim remained unidentified until his girlfriend filed a missing person report.

Detectives followed a lead to a local tavern where Brown was last seen leaving with another Black man known as Big Mike, but that trail went cold. Ten months later investigators linked Brown’s killing by ballistics to the murder of Daryl Williams; the same .38-caliber weapon was used. That connection, and subsequent similar victims, led authorities to suspect a serial offender targeting young Black men in Atlanta. The investigation eventually identified Michael D. Terry as the primary suspect and he was sentenced to life in prison on February 22, 1987, for the string of killings, including Brown’s murder.

Did anyone who knew Curtis or saw him in Atlanta on December 14, 1985 have information that could still shed light on his last hours?