Mary Miller Coffee was 61 when she was found murdered at her Richmond, Virginia, home on October 3, 1990. She suffered a fatal stab wound to the chest; investigators later determined the cause of death was a hemothorax from that stabbing. Someone set a fire in an apparent effort to conceal the crime, but the stab wound was the lethal injury. Mary Coffee was one of the earliest victims in a series later called the Golden Years Murders, a pattern of killings that targeted older Black women who lived alone.

At least thirteen elderly women were murdered in Richmond between 1990 and 1996, and the crimes left the community shaken. A man named Leslie Leon Burchart later confessed to four of the Golden Years killings and was considered a suspect in others, but his confessions did not include Mary Coffee and no charges have been filed in her death. Her case remains unsolved and cold.

If anyone knew Mary Coffee, her routines, neighbors, or saw anything in that neighborhood around October 3, 1990, please come forward with information.