Dr. Martin Russell Sullivan was a 68-year-old plastic surgeon in Chicago who was ambushed and fatally shot on August 6, 1993, in his Wilmette office. The attacker had made an appointment under the name John Rothman, then entered the office and shot Dr. Sullivan four times in the chest with a small-caliber handgun. The gunman fled in an older-model Volkswagen Beetle; witnesses had seen a slight, balding white man in his 50s near the office in the days before the killing and the getaway car was described as a 1968 Volkswagen Beetle with Maryland plates.

Paramedics took Dr. Sullivan to Evanston Hospital, where he died; he had been on that hospital’s staff for 32 years and had done charitable work for Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children. Investigators formed a 30-member task force and widened the search into nearby states and Maryland, checking Dr. Sullivan’s personal and professional life for motive but finding no pending litigation or disgruntled patients to explain the attack.

In 2000, Jonathan Haynes was charged and, after a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, was found guilty of three counts of murder and one count of burglary in connection with Dr. Sullivan’s death. Does anyone have memories of the suspect’s car or the man seen near the office in the days before the shooting?