Zeneth Lawrence, 55, was shot and killed on December 28, 1995, while delivering newspapers in Dayton, Ohio. Known in her neighborhood as the paper lady, she was in her parked car on Oxford Avenue sorting papers when someone approached the vehicle and shot her in the head. Investigators treated the incident as possibly the result of being in the wrong place at the wrong time; the motive was thought to be robbery because a similar crime occurred nearby shortly afterward.

Detective Doyle Burke of the Dayton Police Cold Case Unit has revisited the case and investigators are now applying DNA analysis techniques that were not available in the mid-1990s to items from the scene. Witnesses have identified two individuals potentially involved, and one of those identified is already serving time for a different robbery committed the same morning. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Cold Case Unit hotline or Crime Stoppers.