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Shawanda Denise McCalister was 20 and a certified nursing assistant when she was found murdered in her Jacksonville apartment on Arco Drive on January 10, 2003. Pregnant at the time, she was discovered strangled, with a cord around her neck and her hands bound. Her on-again, off-again boyfriend found the body after he returned from school and could not enter the apartment; he was later cleared as a suspect.

Detectives found striking similarities between Shawanda’s death and the murder of 19-year-old Nikia Kilpatrick, also pregnant and strangled days earlier. Investigators traced Shawanda’s last known ride to a Gator City Taxi driven by 32-year-old Paul Durousseau; cab records showed a gap of more than three hours between when he picked her up and his next fare. Durousseau was later charged in multiple Jacksonville murders; evidence cited in prosecutions included DNA, cell phone records, witness accounts placing a tall man in a Gator City cab near crime scenes, and cab company records.

Does anyone have information about Shawanda’s last movements or who she was with the day she took that taxi?