On Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1986, the body of 32-year-old Debra Sue Blevins was found in Kansas City, Missouri. Her nude body, except for socks, was left in the bushes adjacent to the Hyde Park Christian Church. An autopsy determined she had been strangled to death. At the time she was a mother to a nine-year-old daughter and was attending business school.

Blevins’ killing later became linked to a string of similar murders in the Kansas City area: victims left in secluded locations, strangulation, and signs of sexual assault. DNA evidence from Blevins’ crime scene was eventually matched to Lorenzo Gilyard, who investigators connected to multiple cases. In 2007 Gilyard was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder, including Debra Sue Blevins, and received life without parole.

Does anyone have memories of Hyde Park or the area from the mid 1980s that might shed light on Blevins’ last day?