In late 1986 a series of brutal killings of young African-American women alarmed the Suitland, Maryland, area. Juanita Marie Walls was 26 when she left her Washington, D.C. apartment on October 30, 1986 to attend a birthday party and never returned. Her body was recovered January 13, 1987 in a wooded area near the Bradbury Recreational Center in Suitland during a search that followed the discovery of another nearby victim.

The medical examiner determined Walls died of injuries sustained in a sexual assault and multiple stab wounds. Her killing matched a pattern seen in other victims found between October 1986 and January 1987. Authorities identified a person of interest, Alton Alonso Best; he was never charged in Walls’s death. Best was arrested in connection with an unrelated murder, later pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and sodomy in that case, and in his confession said he preyed on marginalized young women. The Suitland killings were never legally tied to him in Walls’s case.

If anyone knew Juanita’s movements the night she disappeared or saw anything near Bradbury Recreational Center in late 1986, what can you share with investigators?