Sharon Lavette Nance, 32, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was found dead on May 27, 1992. A native of Mecklenburg County who worked as a domestic worker and attended Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, she lived at 1315-G Spring Street and was the mother of a son, Rasheed Nance. Family remembered her as caring, creative and generous despite a troubled life that included recent prison time and prior charges for drug and weapon offenses between 1975 and 1992.

On the night she was killed Sharon left her aunt’s house wearing a black dress to go out with friends. Her body was discovered a week later beside railroad tracks near Rozzelle’s Ferry Road; she had been beaten to death. In 1994 police identified her as one of the victims of Henry Louis Wallace, who confessed to killing her after picking her up and killing her when she demanded payment for sex work, then dumping her body near the tracks. Wallace was later convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to death.

Did anyone in Charlotte know Sharon or have information about her movements in late May 1992?