Betty Everett, 67, was found dead in her Columbus, Mississippi home on November 17, 1998. She had been bound, gagged, and strangled—circumstances that matched a series of four other brutal killings of elderly residents in north Columbus between July 1996 and November 1998. The other victims named in the series were Robert Hannah, Louise Randall, Mack Fowler, and George Wilbanks; Hannah and Randall were killed weeks before Everett in October 1998.

The crimes all occurred within about a three-mile radius, prompting a multiagency task force, a public reward of $20,000, and national attention including a segment on 48 Hours. Investigators later used DNA to make arrests in two of the other cases, but no suspect has been publicly identified or charged in Betty Everett’s murder, and her case remains unsolved.

Did anyone in north Columbus at that time have information about unusual visitors, vehicles, or disturbances near these victims’ homes?