Kellie Ford was a 20-year-old White woman from Kansas City, Missouri, whose body was found in Roanoke Park in the early morning of June 9, 1987. A dog walker discovered her at the foot of a bluff; she was nude except for a white sock on her right foot, a towel tied around her neck and face, and had a silver cross earring in her left ear. Investigators recorded needle marks on her arm. The autopsy determined she had been strangled.

Her death became part of a string of killings in Kansas City during the mid-to-late 1980s, with multiple victims found in parks, lots, and other secluded spots. Decades later, cold-case evidence was re-examined and DNA testing linked a suspect, Lorenzo Gilyard, to several victims. In March 2007 a judge convicted Gilyard of six murders, including Kellie Ford’s, and in April 2007 he was sentenced to life without parole.

Does anyone who lived near Roanoke Park in 1987 recall anything about the area or the days around June 9 that might shed light on what happened to Kellie?