Joyce Dickerson-Peay, a 37-year-old Black/African American woman, went missing from her Springfield, Massachusetts home and was reported missing by her daughter. Her frozen body was found on March 11, 1998, near a vacant downtown restaurant, about three weeks after she was last seen. An autopsy determined she had been manually strangled.

Witnesses put Joyce with Alfred Gaynor shortly before she disappeared. Forensic testing later matched DNA from Joyce’s body to the sample taken from Gaynor. That match linked him to her murder and to other killings in the area, and he was arrested again on April 10, 1998.

If anyone knew Joyce, her movements in Springfield in early 1998, or saw her with Alfred Gaynor, please share what can help the ongoing historical record of this case.