Seventeen-year-old Deborah Ann Brooks, known as Missy, left her Northeast Washington, D.C., home on Monroe Street on the evening of November 13, 1980, to exchange a prescription at a local drug store. She never returned. The next morning a neighbor brought the family a torn prescription bag stained with blood. On the afternoon of November 14, two hunters found a body partially concealed under drywall in a wooded area off Sharpersville Road in Charles County, Maryland, about 25 miles from her home. Dental records identified the remains as Deborah’s.

An autopsy in Baltimore ruled the death a homicide: she had been beaten and stabbed and there was evidence of a violent struggle; investigators reported no signs of sexual assault. The Washington Metropolitan Police handled the disappearance and the Charles County Sheriff’s Office led the homicide inquiry; detectives collected more than 40 items of evidence and interviewed friends and acquaintances. Several persons of interest were cleared by alibis and witness statements, and robbery did not appear to be a motive. Decades later the case remains unsolved and a reward is offered for information that could lead to an arrest and indictment.

Does anyone have information about Deborah’s movements in Northeast Washington or about activity near Sharpersville Road in mid-November 1980?