Michelle Mitchell, a 22-year-old white woman, was killed on April 5, 1990, in Kansas City, Missouri, during a series of brutal attacks that targeted young women in and around Gillham Park. The killings were linked by a pattern: victims were lured with the promise of drugs, sexually assaulted, and strangled; bodies were sometimes left with clothing scattered nearby.

A surviving victim interrupted during an assault gave a description that helped police identify Ray Shawn Jackson. He confessed to six murders, including Michelle Mitchell’s, and a first-degree assault. Jackson pleaded guilty to six counts of first-degree murder and one count of first-degree assault and received life sentences without the possibility of parole; he is incarcerated at the South Central Correctional Center.

Does anyone have memories of that stretch of Gillham Park in 1990 or information about Michelle Mitchell that could shed light on her life before this crime?