Naomi Kelly was 23 when her body was found on August 16, 1986, in a park at 10th and Harrison streets in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. A single mother of two who was attending business school, she had been brutally strangled; a towel was tied around her neck and face when she was discovered.

Her killing was one of a string of attacks on women in the area between 1977 and 1993 that came to be attributed to an unknown assailant called the Kansas City Strangler. Years later, DNA re-examination of evidence from cold cases linked the crime scenes to a single individual. In April 2004, Lorenzo Gilyard was arrested after his DNA matched samples from the victims, and he was charged in multiple first-degree murders, including Naomi Kelly’s. The trial concluded in March 2007 with a conviction on six counts of first-degree murder and a sentence of life without parole.

Does anyone who knew Naomi or her family, or who remembers the neighborhood in the 1980s, have information that could add detail to what happened to her?