Fannie Whitney Byers, an 81-year-old white woman who lived near the CSX railroad tracks in Carl, Georgia, was found bludgeoned to death in her home on December 10, 1998. A neighbor who came to help with a lock found her unresponsive in a room off the kitchen, lying in a pool of blood. The weapon has been described variously as a pickaxe taken from her porch and in another account as a tire rim.

Initial arrests were made in the case but those suspects were later released after Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, a transient who rode freight trains and became known as the Railroad Killer, confessed to an FBI agent that he had left a northbound train in Carl, followed Byers, entered her house and struck her in the head. Authorities accepted his confession and dropped the charges against the earlier arrestees.

If anyone knew Fannie Byers, her routines, or saw unfamiliar people near the railroad tracks around early December 1998, please share what was seen or heard.