On July 16, 1988, 16-year-old Sharmanita Grays was found dead at the Bay Point Motel, 3530 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami. Her body was discovered mostly nude in a stairwell just outside a motel room. The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner determined the cause of death was asphyxiation.

Grays had been staying in the room with Charles Henry Williams, who admitted renting the room for her and said they smoked crack cocaine together. A third person, Aida Rodriguez, was briefly present and sent out to buy cigarettes. Williams told police he left the room twice that day and later found it empty; he said he stayed and used drugs until police arrived. Williams became a primary suspect in a series of murders of inner-city women in the late 1980s; police later suspected him in dozens of killings that shared a pattern of victims strangled and partially clothed. He was arrested in April 1989 and later convicted of rape in a separate case.

What details about Sharmanita’s last hours or the motel stay might someone with information be able to add?