Genevieve ’Jenny’ Zitricki, 28, was found murdered in her Greenville, South Carolina, apartment on April 5, 1990. A computer programmer at Michelin North America, recently divorced and active in the community as a softball player and teacher, she was attacked while asleep. Her apartment’s back door had been forced, and she suffered blunt force injuries, strangulation, and a sexual assault; her body was later found in the bathtub.

Greenville Police pursued more than 150 leads, but the case went cold for decades. In 2018, investigators used DNA testing and forensic genealogy to build a genetic profile that identified Robert Eugene Brashers. Brashers was already deceased; he had died by suicide in 1999 after a separate standoff with police in Missouri. His DNA also linked him to other violent crimes in multiple states, including a 1998 double murder in Missouri and a 1997 rape in Memphis.

The identification closed a long-unsolved chapter in Greenville’s history, though no arrest could be made because the suspect was dead. Did anyone who knew Jenny or lived near her complex in 1990 notice anything unusual that spring?