Dora Ann Thomas, a 46-year-old African-American woman, was found raped and strangled in her Goldsboro, North Carolina, apartment on June 30, 1994. Her killing resembled a series of unsolved assaults and murders from 1990 in which elderly victims were attacked in their homes, a similarity noted by investigators at the time.

Reports identify a connection between Thomas’s murder and those earlier crimes based on investigative findings that emerged later. Who in Goldsboro in 1994 might have seen or heard something that could help clarify how these cases are linked?