Elizabeth Seibert, a 69-year-old white woman who lived alone in a third-floor apartment at 408 N. Nansemond Street in Richmond’s West End, was found murdered in her home on April 22, 1996. The cause of death was determined to be strangulation. Her killing became one of several similar slayings of elderly women labeled the Golden Years Murders, which prompted Richmond Police to form an Operation Golden Years task force.

Leslie Leon Burchart, already serving a long sentence for killing three homeless men, later confessed and pleaded guilty to the murders of Seibert and three other elderly women — Lucille Boyd, Mamie Verlander, and Jane Foster — but there was no physical evidence linking him to the Golden Years crime scenes and he subsequently recanted those confessions. Burchart died in prison in 2002, and uncertainty remains about whether his pleas resolved Seibert’s case beyond doubt.

If anyone knew Elizabeth, lived near 408 N. Nansemond Street in 1996, or has information about the Golden Years Murders, please share what you remember.