A month before her death, 78-year-old lifelong Yonkers resident Louise Paciarello found a handwritten napkin warning that someone would come at 4 a.m. She told a neighbor she had heard someone jiggling her doorknob and thought someone had been inside her apartment; the locks were changed but the measure did not prevent what followed.

On the evening of August 22, 2007, a fire broke out in Paciarello’s apartment at the Kris Kristensen senior residency on Seymour Street. Neighbors tried to rescue her; firefighters discovered her semi-conscious and she was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Westchester Medical Examiner’s Office later determined she had been strangled. Investigators found the fire was set at two separate points of origin, indicating arson intended to conceal the homicide; robbery was considered but no motive was established.

No official suspects have been identified and the case remains unsolved. Did anyone in Yonkers know Louise, her routines, or see anything unusual at the building that summer?