Mary Hudson, 77, a Black woman, was killed in Atlanta on September 18, 1992. Neighbors knew her as Miz Mary; she lived alone in a duplex near Vine City and the Georgia Dome and was found after a brutal attack that intensified fear in a neighborhood already on edge from a string of assaults on older women.

Investigators treated Hudson’s death as potentially connected to other attacks on elderly women in the area. When Lyndon Fitzgerald Pace was arrested on October 2, 1992, for crimes against another elderly woman, police secured his consent for hair and blood samples and identified him as a suspect in Hudson’s murder. Subsequent testing did not match Pace’s DNA or hair to evidence from Hudson’s scene, even though those samples later linked him to other killings for which he was convicted.

No arrest, charge, trial, or conviction specifically for Mary Hudson’s murder appears in the available record; her case remains publicly unresolved. If anyone knew Miz Mary or has information about what happened to her in September 1992, please share what you remember.