Deborah Taylor, 27, left home for the last time on December 11, 1987, and was found that day in a vacant field in Kansas City, strangled to death. Public burial records list her as Deborah Diane Taylor, born October 19, 1960, and interred at Quindaro Cemetery.

Evidence preserved from the scene and a discarded tissue was retested as DNA technology advanced. In 2003 a profile was linked to Clifton Lee Ray Jr., a Kansas City offender whose genetic profile matched material from Taylor’s case. By then Ray was already serving time for a 1994 killing; prosecutors later used the same DNA link in pursuing Taylor’s homicide. Court records show Ray was convicted in October 2007 for the 1990 murder of Joycie Flowers and received a life sentence.

What can anyone who knew Deborah or who remembers the area in 1987 add about her last day or the vacant field where she was found?