Angela Mayhew, 19, was found dead on September 12, 1987, in the 2600 block of Genessee Street in Kansas City, Missouri. She was discovered fully clothed on the side of the road and had been strangled; an autopsy found no evidence of sexual assault, a detail that later became pivotal in court.

In 2004 investigators revisited cold cases using advanced DNA testing and arrested 54-year-old Lorenzo Gilyard, known as the Kansas City Strangler, after matching his DNA to evidence from several crime scenes. He was indicted on twelve counts of first-degree murder and prosecutors named Mayhew among the alleged victims. A hair belonging to Gilyard was found on Mayhew’s sweater, but no semen or other biological fluid linked him to her death.

At a bench trial in March 2007 Gilyard was convicted of six murders and given life without parole, but the judge acquitted him of Angela Mayhew’s murder, finding the hair on her clothing insufficient to meet the burden of proof in the absence of DNA tying him to her. Does anyone have information about Angela’s last known movements or who she was with before September 12, 1987?