Connie Hayward, a 27-year-old Black woman, was found dead on April 10, 1995, in Trenton, New Jersey. Her body was discovered in a rundown motel, one of several crime scenes tied to a series of violent attacks in the city.

Investigators later linked Hayward’s killing to a pattern of murders in which a man preyed on vulnerable women in the pre-dawn hours, offering drugs in exchange for sex before sexually assaulting and strangling them. A surviving victim provided a description that led to a suspect, and on August 8, 1996 Anthony Balaam was arrested. He confessed to Hayward’s murder and to the killings of three other women, and was convicted on four counts of murder.

Does anyone have information about Connie’s life in Trenton or memories of the neighborhood and the motel where she was found?