Rita D. Scott was a 32-year-old White woman and mother of three who was killed in Milwaukee on September 15, 1989. Police found her shortly before 6:50 a.m. near a loading dock between 1501 W. Cherry Street and 1513 N. 13th Street. She was partially clothed, lying in a large pool of blood with a trail of blood roughly 102 feet from the driveway to where she was found, and investigators concluded she had been dragged from the site where the assault began.

An autopsy documented catastrophic blunt-force injuries to the head and face; the cause of death was trauma to the head and face. A sexual-assault kit collected at autopsy yielded semen by testing available at the time, but no suspect was identified until preserved evidence was retested in 2009. Modern DNA testing produced an STR profile that matched Lorenzo Fayne in CODIS. According to the criminal complaint, Fayne later admitted attacking Rita with a rock, dragging her, sexually assaulting her and discarding part of the rock beneath the loading dock. Prosecutors charged Fayne with first-degree intentional homicide on October 27, 2009.

Rita left three young sons; her mother Mozella Scott and uncle Mike Mitchell said the identification of a suspect brought relief after two decades of uncertainty. Does anyone have memories or information about Rita, her family, or the area near 13th and Cherry in 1989 that could add context to the case?