On August 4, 1991, seventeen-year-old Danielle Britton was found dead in a ditch along Nevada Street in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans. A recycler clearing debris at an illegal dumping site discovered her body. An autopsy concluded she had been brutally beaten, strangled, and sexually assaulted roughly twelve hours before she was found. Britton lived in nearby Gretna with her mother and was reportedly last seen outside a bar called Neva’s Rendezvous getting into a car that matched a survivor’s description.

Two weeks before Britton’s death a woman who identified herself only as Brenda survived a similar attack in the same area and described being abducted by a man in a blue, late-model Buick Regal or Monte Carlo. Brenda described the attacker as a clean-cut, well-dressed, muscular Black man. Detectives linked Britton’s killing to a string of similar murders attributed to a suspected serial offender called the Storyville Slayer, whose victims from 1991 to 1995 were often women believed to be involved in sex work and drugs and were found strangled in secluded spots.

The case remains officially unsolved. Did anyone in Algiers or Gretna at the time see a blue Buick Regal or Monte Carlo near Neva’s Rendezvous on the night Danielle disappeared?