Fifteen-year-old Diane Cho was found murdered in her Chesterfield County apartment on the morning of November 22, 1987. The night before she had been working on an English paper; her family last heard her typing. Investigators found that a window screen had been cut and removed, allowing the attacker to enter. Diane had been raped, her hands bound behind her back with rope that was also tied around her neck, and her mouth covered with duct tape. A figure-eight or infinity symbol had been painted on her hip with nail polish.

Police later connected Diane’s killing to a series of similar attacks attributed to the Southside Strangler. Authorities arrested 25-year-old Timothy Wilson Spencer on January 20, 1988, and evidence from his belongings included a drawing of the same figure-eight symbol. DNA testing from semen at multiple scenes was used at trial; although the DNA in Diane’s case was described as less conclusive than in others, the prosecution secured a conviction for her rape and capital murder.

Does anyone have memories of Diane or information from that time that could shed more light on the case?