Mia Smith, 29, was found strangled in a sixth-floor stairway at the Royal Towers Apartments in Kansas City on March 30, 1994. Her violent death occurred amid a string of other mysterious deaths in the building and alarmed fellow tenants.

Investigators focused on a fellow resident, Clifton Ray, who had moved into the Royal Towers not long before the deaths began and had prior run-ins with the law. Police were highly suspicious of his involvement in Mia’s murder but were unable to develop enough evidence to charge him in her case, and the investigation went cold.

Clifton Ray was later convicted for the murder of another resident of the building, and DNA evidence linked him to strangulation deaths of two other Kansas City women in 1987 and 1990; he was sentenced to life in prison for those crimes. No trial or charges were ever pursued in Mia Smith’s homicide, which remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone living at Royal Towers in 1994 or who knew Mia have information that could help reopen her case?