Janice Wessinger was 47 and worked as a triage nurse at Aiken Regional Medical Centers when she was murdered on a November weekend in 1997. A talented church pianist and a mother of two, she left home on Saturday, November 22, 1997, planning to visit a friend’s sick mother in Augusta. Her 20-year-old daughter Tamara returned late that night to find the house’s blinds up and Janice gone. A search the next morning located Janice’s body in a wooded area less than a mile from the family’s rural Aiken County home. She had been beaten, raped, and stabbed to death.

The homicide remains unsolved. No arrests or officially named suspects have been reported, and the case later appeared on a cold case playing card distributed to inmates in South Carolina. Janice’s daughter maintains a Facebook page titled Janice Wessinger – Help Us Find Her Murderer and continues to seek justice.

Does anyone who lived in rural Aiken County in November 1997 remember anything about that weekend or Janice’s movements that could help move this case forward?