Bertha Jean Mason, 26, was reported missing on December 11, 1991, and her body was found on December 30, 1991, in an abandoned building in Detroit, Michigan. She had been raped, sodomized, and strangled to death. Her murder became part of a series of attacks that terrorized Detroit and neighboring Highland Park that winter.

Investigators later linked the killings to Benjamin Atkins, known as the Woodward Corridor Killer. A woman who survived one of the attacks identified Atkins, and he was arrested on August 21, 1992. Atkins confessed to eleven murders, including Mason’s, and at trial was convicted in April 1994 on eleven counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree sexual conduct, receiving eleven life sentences.

Does anyone have information about Bertha Jean Mason’s life or movements in Detroit in December 1991 that could add context to her case?