Pamela Malcolm, 25, was last seen on the evening of October 21, 1986, when she left the Suitland apartment she shared with her mother to buy a pack of cigarettes and did not return. Her body was found on January 12, 1987, near the Bradbury Recreational Center in Suitland, less than a mile from her home. Investigators determined she had been raped and stabbed.

Malcolm’s death became part of a series of killings later called the Suitland murders. A 75-member task force searching the area the day after her body was found located two more victims, Cynthia Lee Westbury and Juanita Marie Walls; a fourth body, Angela Maria Wilkerson, was found the next day. All were young African-American women who had been sexually assaulted and stabbed.

Authorities identified a person of interest, Alton Alonso Best of Washington, D.C.; he was arrested for the murder of another woman and the killings ceased after his incarceration, but he was never charged in the Suitland cases and no definitive forensic link was reported. Does anyone with memories of Suitland in 1986–87 or information about these victims want to come forward?