Connie Warner, a 41-year-old mother and accountant from Zachary, Louisiana, disappeared on August 24, 1992. Her daughter Tracy found bloodstains in several rooms and signs that furniture had been moved, and Warner’s car remained at the home—circumstances that suggested a violent struggle. In September her badly decomposed body was recovered from a drainage ditch; investigators determined a skull fracture was the cause of death.

Hurricane Andrew passed through the area soon after the disappearance and is reported to have washed away forensic evidence that might have tied a suspect to the crime. Investigators later focused on Derrick Todd Lee as a possible perpetrator and obtained his DNA in connection with this case and the later disappearance of Randi Mebruer, but Lee was never charged in Warner’s murder. He was linked by DNA to other killings, was convicted in those cases, and died in prison in 2016. Warner’s murder remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone in Zachary at the time notice suspicious activity around the Warner residence in late August 1992?