Wilomeana Violet Filkins, 81, was found dead in her East Greenbush, New York, apartment on August 19, 1994. Family members discovered her body in the living room; an autopsy showed she had died from several blows to the back of her head. Investigators believed the killing occurred on August 17 during a daytime robbery.

Filkins lived alone in a ground-floor unit at the Coventry Apartments. Her 1989 Plymouth Reliant was in the complex parking lot but parked unusually, and police suspected the car had been taken and later returned. Some of her stolen personal items were recovered three years later on a rural road behind the Nassau-Schodack Cemetery.

The case went cold for decades. A tip in 2019 about a man named Jeremiah J. Guyette, who was 18 at the time of the murder and had once lived nearby, prompted renewed testing. After Guyette’s death in 2019, his fingerprints and DNA were obtained and a latent thumbprint from Filkins’s coffee table was matched to him. Does anyone have memories of Violet, her routine at the Coventry Apartments, or details from August 1994 that could add context to the case?