Dorothy Gibson was a 17-year-old runaway who was murdered on May 11, 1977, in Miami, Florida. She was strangled outside a downtown Miami hotel and her body was left in bushes behind the hotel. According to a later confession by Samuel Little, he encountered her near a bus station, arranged to have sex, then strangled her after refusing to pay her.

The case was originally attributed to Jerry Frank Townsend, who falsely confessed and was convicted; that conviction was later overturned after Little’s confession and authorities concluded Townsend had been coerced. The FBI judged Little’s confession about this killing credible; he was serving multiple life sentences for other murders when he admitted responsibility and was not separately charged for Gibson’s death. The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office cleared the case to provide closure to Gibson’s next of kin.

Are there readers who remember Dorothy or who have information about her life in Miami in 1977?