Karen Nora Kutchey was 51 when her body was found in Baltimore’s Brooklyn neighborhood on Thursday, August 16, 2007. A postal carrier discovered her; an autopsy later determined she had been fatally stabbed. Her obituary called the death sudden, and friends and family remembered her as a beloved daughter and sister with a gentle, kind spirit.

Baltimore Police opened a homicide investigation; no suspects were publicly identified and no arrests were made. The case was one of 23 homicides in the city that August and later appeared in the Project Cold Case database. The investigation remains open and cold, with Karen’s loved ones still seeking answers.

If anyone knew Karen, saw or heard anything in Brooklyn around August 16, 2007, please come forward with information.