Carolyn Elizabeth Joyner Hedrick, 44, was found murdered in Newport News on February 2, 1984. A Hampton resident who worked as a candy saleswoman, her nude body was discovered in a church parking lot, one of five killings in an 11-day span within roughly 30 miles that alarmed the Tidewater region.

Investigators linked Hedrick’s killing to the nearby slayings and later identified Syvasky Lafayette Poyner as the perpetrator. Poyner confessed to robbing, sexually assaulting, and murdering Hedrick and said he targeted women because he believed they were easier to intimidate; authorities concluded theft was not the primary motive in the series of attacks.

Poyner was convicted of Carolyn Hedrick’s murder and sentenced to death. Did anyone in the community remember seeing Carolyn on February 2, 1984, or have information about her movements that day?