Lateashia Blocker, a 28-year-old Black woman, was found dead under the floorboards of a vacant house at 766 Princeton Place NW in Northwest Washington, D.C., on May 8, 1997. Her family had pressed police to search the derelict property, and the discovery intensified fear in the surrounding Georgia Avenue neighborhood.

The initial scene examination and autopsy were inconclusive, and the cause of Lateashia’s death was not determined. Her mother, Brenda Blocker, maintained that Lateashia had been murdered. Investigators noted links between Lateashia’s death and a cluster of deaths of Black women in the area; another victim, Jacqueline Teresa Birch, was found in the same house and ruled a homicide by manual strangulation. No suspects were publicly identified and no arrests had been announced in Lateashia’s case.

Does anyone with memories of the neighborhood or information about the vacant house at 766 Princeton Place NW in 1997 have details that could help this investigation?