Rhonda Tucker was a 21-year-old Black woman from Brooklyn who was found dead in late September 1999 inside her Sumner Houses apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She was discovered naked and strangled, with a ligature around her neck. The scene and wound pattern were consistent with other recent strangulation killings in Brooklyn, prompting investigators to compare forensic evidence.

The medical examiner recovered semen from Tucker’s body; DNA testing linked that sample to evidence from two earlier victims, indicating a single offender may have been involved in multiple killings. Detectives expanded their investigation into neighborhoods where the victims had lived or been seen, interviewing people connected to drugs and sex work. One lead identified a homeless man; DNA testing later excluded him and directed attention to another man from the same social circle.

Does anyone have memories of the Sumner Houses area in 1999 or information that could shed light on Tucker’s last days?