Theresa Giles was a 22-year-old Black woman who was sexually assaulted and killed in Fort Lauderdale on December 18, 1984. Her name appears in some accounts as Teresa Giles. Few details are available about her life or the exact location where she was found, but investigators long considered her death part of a string of attacks on women and girls in northwest Fort Lauderdale that shared features such as vulnerability of victims, secluded locations, sexual violence and death by strangulation or suffocation.

Suspicion focused on Eddie Lee Mosley, a local man with a lengthy arrest history and prior sexual violence allegations. Mosley was questioned and ultimately indicted in July 1987 for the murders of Giles and another victim, Emma Cook, but psychological testing found him incompetent to stand trial and he was committed for psychiatric treatment. Subsequent DNA testing linked Mosley biologically to Giles and several other victims, supporting investigators’ conclusions even though no trial or conviction was completed.

Did anyone in Fort Lauderdale at the time remember Teresa Giles or have information that could still help clarify the case?