Dana Hill, a 34-year-old Black woman who grew up on Princeton Place in Petworth, was found dead on December 1, 1997. Her body was discovered in a vacant building in the 300 block of Florida Avenue NE; the cause of death was strangulation. Hill’s killing occurred amid a string of slayings in the neighborhood that targeted vulnerable women, many of whom struggled with drug addiction, and heightened fears that a predator was operating in the area.

Investigators later linked DNA evidence from crime scenes to a nearby resident, and in January 1998 Darryl Donnell Turner, aged 34 and from Princeton Place, was arrested and charged in the deaths of Hill and Jacqueline Teresa Birch, whose body had been found weeks earlier. In October 2001 Turner was convicted of the rape and murder of both women and sentenced to life without parole.

Does anyone remember Dana, Jacqueline, or details from the Petworth neighborhood in late 1997 that could shed more light on these cases?