Mary Ann Pohlreich, 27, of Bellevue, Washington, was murdered the night of June 22, 1990. She had gone alone to Papagayo’s Cantina in the Overlake area, where she was a regular, and witnesses said she drank several Long Island Iced Teas and spoke with various patrons. Friends left earlier; Mary Ann chose to stay. The next morning her nude body was found near a McDonald’s dumpster in the Crossroads shopping mall area, about a mile from the bar, with fatal blunt force trauma to the head.

Mary Ann was a student at Bellevue Community College, held associate degrees in business management, planned to study computer science, and had worked at Cooper Vision and Delta Marketing. Described by family and friends as friendly, outgoing, and intelligent, she was the eldest of eight children and lived in Redmond with a roommate.

Investigators initially had no immediate leads: her car, purse, and sweater were left at the bar. Her murder was later linked to two other local killings. The suspect identified was George Waterfield Russell; he was arrested, charged, tried, found guilty by a King County jury, and sentenced to life without parole. Did anyone who knew Mary Ann or saw her that night come forward with details that might still clarify what happened at the bar?