Greta Williams was a 27-year-old African American woman found murdered in Houston, Texas, in July 1989. Her body was discovered rolled up in a carpet inside a vacant house; she had been beaten beyond recognition. Williams had recently moved from Chicago to Houston seeking a fresh start, and her violent death left family and community shocked.

In July 1995, Garcia Glen White confessed during a police interrogation to killing Williams after a fight at a crack house, admitting he rolled her body in a carpet and left it in the abandoned property. White’s confession to Williams’ murder came alongside admissions to four other killings, including the December 1989 triple homicide of Bonita Edwards and her 16-year-old twin daughters, Annette and Bernette Edwards. Prosecutors did not formally charge White in Williams’ case, focusing instead on the Edwards killings.

Members of Williams’ family attended White’s execution in 2024 and said his death brought some measure of closure. Does anyone have memories of Greta or information about her life in Houston in 1989?