Denise Marie Harris was 42 when her body was found on September 12, 1997, in a wooded, undeveloped area beneath Seattle’s freeways known as The Jungle. A transient discovered her. The scene was described as deliberately violent: she had been strangled with a belt, her wrists and ankles bound with shoelaces, some clothing removed, and a brassiere stuffed into her mouth.

Investigators eventually linked the murder to DeWayne Lee Harris, then 35, who while jailed on an unrelated robbery charge in April 1998 contacted detectives and confessed to the killings of Denise and two other women. His admissions described a pattern of targeting women who were drug users and living on the streets. The other victims named were Antoinette Jones, 33, and Olivia Smith, 25.

If anyone knew Denise, her routines, or saw suspicious activity near The Jungle in late summer 1997, please come forward with information that could shed more light on her last days.