Evandre Harris, identified in court records under that spelling, was a 44-year-old Black woman found dead on August 13, 1998, inside an abandoned house at 920 West 52nd Street in Chicago. Her body was on the first floor, lying across an ottoman in the kitchen, with a telephone cord several feet away. The medical examiner determined she died from ligature strangulation; blunt-force cerebral injuries also contributed.

Injuries were documented around her forehead, eye, face, wrist and chest, with internal bleeding in her mouth and tongue and hemorrhaging in the neck muscles consistent with strangulation by a cord or similar object. Semen recovered during the autopsy produced a DNA profile later matched to Andre Crawford, and his recorded statements described encountering Harris, taking her to the West 52nd Street house, attacking and strangling her, sexually assaulting her, removing and discarding her clothing and shoes, and returning to sexually violate her remains. Jurors found Crawford guilty on the murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault counts relating to Harris and other victims; he received a natural-life sentence.

Does anyone have information about Harris’s life or movements in Englewood in August 1998?