Donna Reitmeyer was 40 when her body was found on June 11, 1990, on a St. Louis sidewalk. She was discovered wrapped in plastic garbage bags and discarded inside a trash can. At the time, Reitmeyer was living in poverty and struggling with drug addiction; those circumstances had led her into sex work. The body’s advanced decomposition prevented an exact cause of death, but investigators ruled the death a homicide.

For decades the case remained cold until developments tied Reitmeyer’s killing to a pattern: at least three other women were found in containers along Missouri freeways in 1990–1991, a disposal method that drew investigators to the idea of a single perpetrator called the Package Killer. In 2022 a man already serving life was identified by DNA and later confessed to Reitmeyer’s murder; he pleaded guilty and received additional life sentences.

If anyone knew Donna, her movements, or saw anything suspicious in St. Louis around June 1990, please come forward with what you remember.