Robert A. Neal, a 24-year-old African American man from Suffolk, was found dead on September 8, 1993. Investigators determined he had been strangled and his body was discovered nude along a roadside in the Hampton Roads region. That detail later became one element linking his killing to a wider pattern of attacks on gay men in the area between 1987 and 1996.

Authorities later tied Neal’s murder to a series of at least twelve similar killings that targeted gay men in Norfolk, Portsmouth and surrounding areas, where victims were often found nude beside deserted roads and interstates. The killings generated sustained fear in the local community until an arrest in 1997 and subsequent convictions in the cases.

Did anyone in Hampton Roads at the time know Neal or remember seeing him in the days before September 8, 1993?