Silvia Rogers, a 19-year-old white woman, was found strangled in Tallahassee, Florida, with the date of death recorded as February 12, 1983. Her death was ruled a homicide by strangulation.

Investigators later arrested Ottis Elwood Toole, a white male offender who had been detained on unrelated arson charges in Jacksonville. Toole was charged with Rogers’s February 12, 1983 strangulation and was tried and convicted in April 1984. He received a death sentence in that case; that sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. No other arrests or suspects were publicly reported after the conviction and the case was considered closed.

Did anyone in Tallahassee or the surrounding area have contact with Silvia in the weeks before February 12, 1983 or recall anything unusual around that time?