Andrea Randi Levine, 24, was found dead in her Kingsgate apartment on September 3, 1990; investigators determined she had been killed on August 31. A receptionist and described as Caucasian, she had been bludgeoned—her skull fractured by repeated blows—and her body was then stabbed and slashed hundreds of times. Her body had been posed, and a gold ring with an oval amethyst that she supposedly never removed was missing from the apartment.

Detectives linked Levine’s killing to two other violent slayings in the area, of Mary Ann Pohlreich and Carol Marie Beethe; all three victims had been posed after death. Police eventually focused on 32-year-old Bellevue resident George Waterfield Russell. Andrea’s missing ring was traced after Russell gave it to a woman who had a friend pawn it; the ring was recovered from a pawnshop in Key West, Florida. Forensic findings and that trace helped lead to Russell’s arrest, prosecution, and a jury conviction in 1991 for the murders; he received life in prison without parole.

Did anyone who knew Andrea or who lived in the Kingsgate area in 1990 see anything or remember someone offering a distinctive gold ring for sale?