Tommie Dennis, a Black woman from Chicago, was one of several victims in a string of killings centered in the Englewood neighborhood during the 1990s. Investigators later connected her death to Andre Crawford after DNA links and similarities in the circumstances tied multiple cases together. Dennis and Crawford moved in some of the same drug-using social circles; Crawford’s videotaped statement described arranging to exchange cocaine for sex with Dennis, becoming angry when she wanted to use the cocaine first, killing her, and sexually assaulting her body, returning later to assault the body again.

Her death was prosecuted as part of the large Cook County case against Crawford, and the trial included his recorded confessions and DNA evidence that linked him to the pattern of crimes. Crawford was convicted of murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault in Dennis’s case and received a sentence of natural life imprisonment without parole.

Did anyone who knew Dennis or who was in that social circle around Englewood at the time have information that could shed more light on her life and the events leading to her death?