Millicent Peanut Jones, a 25-year-old Black woman, was found dead in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood on June 12, 1995. Her death was one of several in a string of killings between December 1994 and June 1995 in which multiple women were targeted and asphyxiated in a manner that left little physical evidence.

The investigation led to the arrest of Hubert Geralds Jr. on June 18, 1995. Geralds confessed to multiple murders, including Jones’s, and was charged. His trial included defense claims about intellectual disabilities and mental disorders, while the prosecution argued the offenses showed calculated behavior. Geralds was convicted and received life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Jones’s death underscores the risks faced by women in certain communities and the challenges investigators confronted with a method that produced minimal physical traces. If anyone knew Millicent Peanut Jones or has information about her life in Englewood, please share what you remember.