Angela Maria Wilkerson, 22, was reported missing on January 5, 1987, and was later found dead in a wooded area near the Bradbury Recreation Center in Suitland, Maryland. Her remains were recovered in the same stretch of woods where multiple other women were located during an intensive police search. Investigators described a pattern linking those deaths: sexual assault followed by stabbing, with bodies left close together as if the woods had been used as a dumping ground. The medical examiner could not determine exact dates of death, and the condition of the bodies suggested they had been dead for some time before discovery.

Detectives reported signs of struggle, including skin from an attacker beneath a victim’s nails, and explored the possibility that the women had been killed elsewhere and brought to Suitland. Attention later focused on a Washington, D.C., man, Alton Alonso Best, arrested in late January 1987 in a separate killing that bore similarities; he pleaded guilty in June 1987 in that case. Does anyone have information about Wilkerson’s last known movements or connections to the Suitland area?