Dorothy Ann Miller, 20, was found dead in a wooded area of Suitland, Maryland, on December 13, 1986. She was described as a Black woman of slender build and short stature. An autopsy concluded she had been raped and that the official cause of death was a drug overdose.

Her death was later tied into a series of similar killings in the Suitland area. Investigators believe the murders occurred between October 1986 and January 1987; although Miller’s body was the first discovered, police thought she may have been the fourth victim based on the decomposition of the other bodies. The other victims were reported to have been sexually assaulted and stabbed.

Police later arrested Washington, D.C., resident Alton Alonso Best on an unrelated murder charge; he pleaded guilty to the murder of Janice Morton and admitted to targeting marginalized young Black women with drugs in exchange for sex. Best was never charged in Dorothy’s killing, and no definitive evidence tying him to the Suitland victims has been reported. Does anyone have information about Dorothy’s life, last movements, or contacts in late 1986?