Doris Orly Hayes, a 48-year-old African American woman, was killed in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 10, 1988, after crossing paths with a man identified as Jerry Lee Little Jr. The encounter reportedly began at a night school and ended in Hayes’s death. In the weeks after, other violent deaths in the city drew police attention toward Little, and detectives developed a concentrated inquiry that eventually led to his being taken into custody for questioning on August 4, 1988.

During interrogation, Little reportedly gave confessions that investigators said linked him not only to the earlier murders under scrutiny but also to Hayes’s death; those recorded statements became central to the case as charges were prepared. Subsequent prosecutions resulted in convictions tied to multiple killings from that period, and Little received life sentences in 1990, with accounts indicating the convictions covered four deaths including Hayes’s.

Does anyone have memories of night school in St. Louis in 1988 or recollections that might shed light on Hayes’s last known movements?