Sheliah McKinzie, 38, was found dead on September 2, 2004, in Kansas City, Missouri, after an odor led police to a vacant garage in the Prospect Avenue corridor where her body had been hidden beneath a tarp. Investigators discovered her body placed on top of another woman’s remains, a grim layering that suggested concealment rather than abandonment.

Within days the probe focused on Terry Blair, an ex-con recently on parole; police said semen recovered from McKinzie matched Blair, and that forensic link supported a first-degree murder charge in her death. A caller making chilling 911 calls also claimed knowledge of multiple body sites and said he had put the two at the Montgall location, a detail later referenced in court records.

Authorities investigated whether the killings were part of a pattern across an 18-block area east of downtown and whether one predator was responsible, and Blair was charged later in 2004 with multiple counts related to killings and alleged sexual assaults in the corridor. The full circumstances of McKinzie’s final hours remain known only through evidence, locations, and court filings.

If anyone knew Sheliah McKinzie, her movements that summer, or has information about the Prospect Avenue corridor at that time, please share what is known.