Rachael Shumato, identified in records as Rachel Justes Shumate, was 75 when she was brutally beaten to death at her Clay Street residence in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 7, 1976. Born in 1901 in Kentucky, she had lived in Cincinnati and was well known in the neighborhood.

The Cincinnati Police Department investigated the case as a homicide, and the Attorney General’s office has urged anyone with information to come forward. Her killing remains a noted unsolved homicide in the city’s history.

If anyone knew Rachael, lived near Clay Street in 1976, or has information that could help the investigation, please share what you know.