Tresa Williams, a 21-year-old Black woman, was found dead on October 22, 1989, at 4136 Euclid Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. Her killing was one of several that unnerved the city during an autumn marked by a pattern of murders concentrated near Gillham Park.

Investigators later linked Williams to a series of six murders carried out between September 1989 and April 1990. The suspect in those cases was Ray Shawn Jackson, who confessed to the six killings and was convicted on six counts of first-degree murder. He received life sentences without the possibility of parole.

Williams is one of the named victims in this case series; the community impact and the cluster of bodies left around midtown Gillham Park remain a central part of the case narrative. Does anyone have information about Williams’s life or movements in Kansas City in the months before October 1989?