On July 25, 1992 the body of 33-year-old Noah Philson of New Orleans was found naked and floating in a canal off Interstate 55 north of LaPlace, Louisiana. Philson worked in the French Quarter nightlife scene as an exotic dancer known as Brenda Bewitch.

Philson’s death is linked in investigators’ accounts to a string of brutal killings in the New Orleans area between 1991 and 1995 attributed to a suspected person later called the Storyville Slayer. Victims in the series were often involved in drugs or sex work and their bodies were discarded in canals and wetlands. A multiagency task force, including the FBI, investigated the cases. Two men were later identified as primary suspects: Victor Gant, a former New Orleans police officer who faced departmental discipline and inconclusive DNA testing but was never criminally charged; and Russell Ellwood, who reportedly confessed to fellow inmates and was convicted in the murder of Cheryl Lewis. Philson’s killing remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Noah, his work in the French Quarter, or his movements in July 1992 have information to share?