On April 1, 1990, a sports car ablaze on a downtown Bridgeport street led firefighters and police to a charred body in the passenger seat. The victim was identified as 39-year-old Sharon Cunningham, a Black woman. An autopsy determined she had been strangled with a piece of cloth, and investigators found male DNA on her body; authorities also suspected sexual assault.

Her killing remained unsolved for years and was later linked to similar strangulation-sexual homicides in Bridgeport’s East End, attributed to an unknown assailant. A significant DNA match occurred when Emanuel Lovell Webb’s profile, entered after a 2005 detention, matched evidence from Cunningham and other victims. Webb was extradited to Connecticut, charged, and in 2008 pleaded no contest to Cunningham’s murder and two others, receiving a 60-year sentence.

Does anyone have information about Sharon’s life in Bridgeport or memories from that neighborhood in 1990 that could add context to the case?