On the evening of January 20, 1999, Freda Ingrid Johnson, a 34-year-old African-American woman, was found shot and bound with a telephone cord inside her Tulsa, Oklahoma, home. Her husband said he heard a gunshot as he arrived and discovered her in the living room; their four-year-old son was found physically unharmed, hiding under a bed. Investigators at first suspected robbery as the motive. The next day a bloody shirt identified as Freda’s was recovered a block from the house.

Years later that shirt was submitted for DNA testing and in 2008 produced a match to a man named Tony Patterson, who was incarcerated in Colorado on unrelated charges. Patterson was charged in connection with the murder, but the case against him was dismissed in March 2013 because of complications with the DNA evidence. The killing remains unsolved and no other suspects have been publicly named or charged.

Did anyone in Tulsa at the time notice unfamiliar people or vehicles near the Johnson home on or before January 20, 1999?