Alesia Ford, 37, was found dead beside the loading dock of an abandoned building at 1 Myrtle Street in Hartford on July 22, 2001. Her head and face were covered in blood and her clothing was in disarray; an autopsy determined she died the previous late afternoon from blunt force trauma to the head and neck, and that she had been manually strangled shortly before death.

Ford’s killing was linked to two other nearby deaths — Aida Quinones and Rosali Jimenez — discovered within a one-mile radius in 2000 and 2001. All three women had histories of drug use and prostitution, and investigators noted similarities in how the bodies were left. Semen from Ford’s body produced a DNA profile that matched Matthew Steven Johnson; his DNA was also found on the other two victims. Johnson was arrested and later convicted in the three murders and received consecutive life terms.

Does anyone have information about Ford’s last known movements or the abandoned building at 1 Myrtle Street at the time?