Stephanie Brown, 28, was found as skeletal remains in woods near a highway in Bridge City, just outside New Orleans, on October 19, 1994. The state of her remains indicated she had been dead for some time before discovery. Her death has been linked by investigators and journalists to a pattern of killings in the New Orleans area in the early to mid-1990s attributed to a suspected Storyville Slayer or possibly multiple perpetrators; many victims in that series were African-American women and transgender women left in remote, swampy locations near highways or canals.

Authorities examined several persons of interest in the broader string of killings. Victor Gant, a New Orleans police officer, was investigated in relation to other victims but was not charged in those cases and has not been tied to Brown’s death. Russell Ellwood, later convicted in 1999 for the murder of Cheryl Lewis, matched aspects of the pattern but has not been publicly linked to Stephanie Brown. Brown’s murder remains officially unsolved.

If anyone knew Stephanie, saw her in 1994, or has information about her movements or that stretch of highway, please share what you know.