Terry Lee Sims, a 20-year-old student and part-time EKG specialist from Wichita Falls, Texas, was murdered on December 21, 1984. She was last known to have attended a Christmas party and was dropped off at a co-worker’s apartment where she planned to stay and study. The next morning her co-worker, Leza Boone, found the apartment ransacked and Sims lying in a pool of blood on the bathroom floor with her hands bound by an electrical cord.

The autopsy documented eight stab wounds to her back, one to her upper arm, numerous defensive wounds on her hands and fingers, facial bruises, and so-called tease wounds meant to torment. She had been sexually assaulted; DNA evidence including semen and a bloody fingerprint was preserved at the scene. Investigators did not initially link this case to later murders.

Sims was later identified as the first of five white female victims, ages 20 to 25, killed between 1984 and 1986 by Faryion Edward Wardrip, who had worked as an orderly at Bethania Hospital. Wardrip confessed to breaking into the apartment after Sims locked him out and attacking her; forensic evidence confirmed the sexual assault. DNA from a discarded cup later tied Wardrip to evidence from Sims and another victim. Terry Sims is buried at Crestview Memorial Park in Wichita Falls.

Did anyone who knew Terry at Midwestern State University or Bethania Hospital have memories or information to share about her in late 1984?