Priscilla Mosley was a 49-year-old Black woman from Washington, D.C., found dead inside her apartment on the 600 block of Newton Place NW in 1997. Her apartment was a short walk from Princeton Place in the Petworth/Park View area, a neighborhood already unsettled by multiple women turning up dead within blocks of one another.

Investigators expanded their inquiries, comparing cases and canvassing the neighborhood. Detectives noted geographic and forensic patterns: several women connected to the same stretch near Georgia and New Hampshire avenues, bodies found in or near homes and vacant buildings, and reports that some victims showed signs of sexual assault and strangulation. Mosley’s death fit that pattern, and attention focused on a man who lived steps from Princeton Place, Darryl Donnell Turner. Prosecutors later indicted Turner in August 1998 on murder and sexual abuse counts tied to other women in the cluster, but no arrest was ever made specifically for Mosley’s killing.

Mosley’s file remains without a defendant named for her death. Did anyone in the neighborhood know Priscilla Mosley or see activity around Newton Place in 1997 that could help explain what happened?