Deborah Lee Smith was 20 when her body was found wrapped in a blanket near a curb on Hunters Avenue in Valley Stream on August 21, 1984. She had been shot twice at close range, once in the head and once in the chest. Reports describe her as White.

Smith became the first named victim in a sequence of Nassau County killings investigators later linked by themes of vulnerability and methods of disposal, but the investigative record publicized so far does not tie a named assailant to her shooting. Years later Allen Gormely Jr. emerged as a lead person of interest because of similarities between how he handled bodies in crimes he admitted to and the way some Nassau victims were found, but he was never charged in Smith’s death and prosecutors cited a lack of evidence in those Nassau cases.

No arrest has been announced in Smith’s killing; her death remains unsolved. Did anyone in Valley Stream or the nearby red-light areas in the 1980s have information about Deborah Lee Smith or about a blanket-wrapped body left on Hunters Avenue?