Willie Mae Bivins, a 26-year-old Black woman from Tallahassee, was found beaten and strangled in a vacant lot near Shadeville Highway and Bloxham Cutoff Road in Wakulla County. Her body was discovered two days after she was last seen on May 12, 1984, leaving several nightclubs along Macomb Street. Witnesses said she got into a 1970s-style sedan with a heavyset man who had a pot belly and a cast on his leg; that was the last confirmed sighting.

Investigators later focused on Eddie Daniel Harris, described as a drifter from Cleveland who had been in Tampa and Tallahassee and worked at a restaurant. Harris was arrested about a year after the killing and charged with first-degree murder after witness identifications and a law enforcement polygraph that was reported as indicating untruthful answers. In September 1987 he was convicted of manslaughter, sentenced to four years, but given extensive credit for time served and did not ultimately serve a prison term for Bivins’ death. At arrest he also faced a Cleveland warrant for felony assault.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement reopened the investigation in 2020; officials did not disclose details. Does anyone have memories or information about Bivins, the sightings on Macomb Street, or the 1970s-style sedan that could help the reopened inquiry?