Constance Bailey, a 41-year-old Black woman, was found dead in a Chicago building in June 1999. Her body was discovered on the floor of a third-floor walk-in attic, but forensic work showed that was a secondary scene. Investigators later located a black butterfly earring in a second-floor bedroom closet and bloodstain evidence there that matched both Bailey and Andre Crawford, indicating the closet was the actual site of the attack.

Crawford later confessed on videotape, saying he and Bailey had arranged an exchange involving cocaine and sex, and admitting to killing and sexually assaulting her. Semen from vaginal swabs matched Crawford by PCR-STR DNA testing, providing independent forensic corroboration. Crawford was tried with other linked South Side cases; jurors found him guilty in December 2009 of Bailey’s first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault among multiple convictions. The jury imposed natural life imprisonment rather than death.

Did anyone in Englewood at the time recall hearing about a woman found in that building in June 1999 or know Constance Bailey?