Elizabeth Monroe was an 86-year-old white resident of the Kearsley Home, a nursing facility affiliated with Christ Church Hospital in Philadelphia. She died on February 12, 1983; her death was initially recorded as natural causes but later investigations determined she had been suffocated in her private room.

Elizabeth was one of six elderly female residents sexually assaulted and murdered at the facility between January and July 1983. The suspected perpetrator, Anthony Joyner, a 24-year-old former kitchen worker at the nursing home, was arrested in August 1983. Joyner confessed to raping and murdering multiple residents and was charged with several counts of first-degree murder and rape; he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

The killings prompted a review of safety procedures at nursing homes and increased attention to employee screening and monitoring in care facilities. If anyone had contact with the Kearsley Home during early 1983 or remembers Elizabeth Monroe, please share what you know.