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On September 24, 1998, the body of 22-year-old African American woman Itisha Camp was found behind a business in Salt Lake City, Utah. Three juveniles discovered her in a stairwell known for drug activity. Camp was partially undressed, with her pants pulled down and a scarf tied tightly around her neck. The medical examiner determined ligature strangulation as the cause of death and ruled the death a homicide; she had visible neck and facial injuries, including abrasions and hemorrhaging. Reports note Camp had been using drugs and may have been engaged in sex work at the time she was killed.

For more than two decades the case was unsolved. In 2024 DNA taken from Camp’s scarf, pants, and back was matched to Chester Dewayne Turner, a convicted serial killer already in custody in California. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill filed an aggravated murder charge in June 2024. The DNA upload had been delayed by a clerical error in 2013 and was corrected before the match to Turner was confirmed. No court date in Utah has been set.

Did anyone in Salt Lake City in 1998 see Camp or remember activity around that stairwell that could help complete the timeline?