Mary Elaine Shereika, 37, went for an early morning jog near her Gambrills, Maryland home on May 23, 1988 and did not return. Her fiancé reported her missing, and later that day a farmer found her partially clothed body in a rye field. The autopsy and investigation found she had been sexually assaulted, beaten, stabbed, and strangled; she was the mother of two.

The murder went cold for years. Evidence from the scene, including a bloody sock and biological samples, was re-examined after the county cold-case unit formed in 1998 and DNA testing advanced. In October 2003 DNA from the Shereika scene matched Alexander Wayne Watson Jr., then serving a life sentence for a 1994 murder. Authorities charged Watson in 2004 with the murders of Shereika and two other victims.

In August 2007 Watson pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder and two counts of rape as part of a plea bargain; the families supported the agreement and were allowed to meet him before he received three additional life sentences without parole. Does anyone have information about Elaine’s last morning or the area where she was jogging?