Donna Lee White, 27, of Somers Point, New Jersey, was found dead in a vacant lot in Atlantic City on September 15, 1987. The death was originally ruled a cocaine overdose and the case was closed at that time.

Years later the investigation was reopened and linked to Dellmus Colvin, then already imprisoned for other killings. In 2010 Colvin was connected to White’s death and he later confessed, saying the killing occurred in a rooming house where, after White injected drugs, he put a bag over her head, rolled her body in a carpet and carried it out. Colvin pleaded guilty and in 2011 was given an additional 30-year sentence for her murder.

Donna was a triplet and part of a large, close-knit family; her brother Marshall Smith told the court the family was deeply affected and said he believed Colvin showed no remorse. Did anyone who knew Donna or her circle in 1987 see signs that her death might not be the accidental overdose first reported?