Margaret Vaughan, 66, was found stabbed 29 times in the foyer of her Penn Street apartment building in Philadelphia on November 11, 1988, one day after she had been evicted for failing to pay rent. The extreme violence at the scene matched other killings attributed at the time to the Frankford Slasher, and investigators treated her death as part of that string of attacks.

A barmaid later reported seeing Vaughan the night she died in the company of a round-faced Caucasian man who wore glasses and walked with a noticeable limp. Police had a composite sketch circulated from that description, and tips came in, but no viable suspect was identified in Vaughan’s murder. Leonard Christopher was arrested and convicted for the 1990 killing of Carol Dowd, another victim linked to the Frankford Slasher, but he was not implicated in Vaughan’s death and the limp description did not match him; another slasher-style killing occurred while he was incarcerated.

The murder of Margaret Vaughan remains unsolved. Did anyone in Frankford remember seeing a man with a limp near Penn Street in November 1988?