Patricia Jones, an 18-year-old Black woman from the St. Petersburg area, was found gravely wounded near the foot of the Weedon Island Bridge on August 26, 1977. She had been shot three times with a .38-caliber firearm and, although still alive when discovered, later died of her wounds. Jones was reportedly involved in sex work along the Dale Mabry Strip and told police that a client had shot her before she succumbed to her injuries.

Her death occurred amid a string of killings in the Tampa Bay region in 1977 that investigators and the press linked to the Dale Mabry Strip, but the cases varied in cause and location. Several other men were later connected to separate murders in the broader cluster, but none is established as Jones’s killer.

What information might help identify the client Jones named, or link her murder to any of the other deaths in the series?