Patricia Eldridge Mays was 44 when she was killed in Knoxville, Tennessee, on May 28, 2004. Her death was investigated by the city’s Violent Crimes Unit, but the inquiry ultimately went cold and produced no arrests. Several violent crimes in Knoxville that spring left the community on edge, and Mays’s homicide became one of the unsolved cases from that period.

More than a decade later, the case remained open with detectives asking anyone with information to come forward. Little else has been reported about the circumstances of the killing or any physical evidence that might link a suspect to the scene.