Zena Marie Jones was 30 when she disappeared from Memphis, Tennessee. She was last seen on July 6, 1990; weeks later, on July 28, a fisherman found a woman’s body on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi River near West Memphis. An autopsy determined the woman had been strangled to death.

For decades the case remained unsolved. In 2018 Samuel Little, already in custody for other murders, confessed to killing a woman in the Memphis area in 1990 and said he had picked up a woman at a motel, strangled her in his car, and driven to Arkansas to dump the body. Little produced composite sketches to help identify victims; a sketch he made was later recognized by Zena’s family. In April 2022 DNA testing identified the 1990 remains as Zena Marie Jones.

Does anyone have information about Zena’s movements in early July 1990 or about the motel where she might have been seen?