Emile Dennis was a 42-year-old Black woman living in Washington, D.C., whose body was found on August 9, 1997 hidden in a crawl space beneath an apartment on Princeton Place NW. She had been part of a cluster of women known to use drugs and frequent the same corners near Georgia Avenue and Princeton Place; several other bodies had been discovered in or near vacant buildings on that short block before and after her death.

The medical examiner could not definitively determine her cause and manner of death, and her file—like several of the other victims—was officially listed as undetermined. Detectives obtained warrants to search the apartment of a neighbor, Darryl Donnell Turner, and to collect his blood, saliva, and hair for comparison with biological traces from victims; Turner denied knowing the women.

Emile’s mother, Sarah Dennis, said her daughter had been concealed beneath the floorboards, and neighbors complained that authorities initially treated the deaths as part of street life rather than a pattern of murders. Does anyone who lived or worked around Princeton Place in the 1990s remember details that could help clarify what happened to Emile?