Rebecca H. Dolly Davis, 70, was attacked and killed outside her home in Elkridge, Maryland, on February 16, 1980. The crime shocked a community that had known her as an artist and teacher with a quiet life and a Bryn Mawr College background.

A man who had done yard work for Davis in the 1970s, Vernon Lee Clark, was not identified at the time and remained free for years. Advances in DNA testing led investigators to reexamine cold cases; Clark was charged in Davis’s murder on August 5, 1999, after DNA tied him to the crime. In 2001 he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in her death and received a life sentence.

Does anyone have memories of Davis, the area around her home, or information that could add detail to what happened that February?