Loria Ann Deberry, a 28-year-old African American woman, was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, on October 5, 1988. Her death was linked to a series of violent attacks that targeted women in the city and drew a multi-bureau task force made up of homicide, vice, and sex crimes investigators.

Authorities identified 44-year-old deliveryman James Antonio Barnes as the person responsible. Investigators say Barnes confessed to Deberry’s killing and to the murders of two other women, and to shooting two additional people. Ballistics testing matched a .32 automatic pistol found in his possession to the shootings. Reports say Barnes picked up victims, drove them to other locations, then shot them.

Barnes was charged with first-degree murder in the cases of Deberry, Sharon Denise Moore, and Joyce Thomas; he later pleaded guilty to three counts of second-degree murder and received a 40-year sentence. Does anyone have information about Loria Ann Deberry or remember her in Memphis in 1988?