On October 8, 1986, 34-year-old Boontem Anderson was found dead in her Gambrills, Maryland, home. Her nude body was discovered in the bathtub by her fiancé’s 11-year-old son; she had been sexually assaulted, stabbed, and strangled. Anderson was a mother of two and was on sick leave from her job at Fort Meade at the time of her death.

DNA evidence collected and preserved from the scene later tied Anderson’s murder to other violent crimes. That forensic link identified Alexander Wayne Watson Jr., who had been a minor in 1986, lived a few miles from the Anderson family, and knew Anderson’s son from a fast-food job. Watson was connected to the killings of Anderson and two other women and, in 2007, pleaded guilty to these murders and received additional life sentences.

Does anyone have information about Anderson’s life in Gambrills or memories from that time that could shed more light on her case?