Edwina Latriss Barnum, a 23-year-old African American woman, was found dead in her southeast Houston apartment on May 25, 1994. Neighbors reported her door had been kicked open sometime during the night; apartment management entered and found her body in the bedroom. Authorities determined she had been murdered in the early morning hours after returning home from work and had been strangled with a belt.

For years the case remained unsolved. In 2006 DNA evidence linked Edward George McGregor, then 33, to Barnum’s murder; his DNA matched evidence from the scene and he was charged with capital murder. McGregor had previously been charged in another killing and was suspected in additional cases, and he was arrested at his home in Missouri City without incident.

Anyone who knew Edwina, lived in that complex in 1994, or has information about her movements that night is asked to come forward.