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Tyresa Mack, a 24-year-old Black woman, was murdered in Jacksonville, Florida, on July 26, 1999. That morning she had been out with a friend applying for jobs; her last known contact was a phone call around 1:25 p.m. When she failed to pick her children up from daycare and missed a doctor’s appointment, family checked her apartment and found her in her bedroom, strangled with a white cord and nude from the waist down. An autopsy confirmed sexual assault and death by asphyxia. Investigators reported a missing television and a distinctive necklace-and-bracelet set she usually wore.

The case lay unsolved for years until investigators later linked DNA from Mack’s body to Paul Durousseau, who was seen by witnesses at her apartment the day she died; one witness said they saw him carrying a television out of the residence. Durousseau was arrested on August 26, 2003, charged with first-degree murder, tried in 2007, found guilty, and sentenced to death; his sentence was later changed to life without parole. Does anyone have memories or information about Tyresa, her apartment, or people who were in that neighborhood in July 1999?