Harleen Singh was a 26-year-old accountant from Virginia Beach when she disappeared in early March 1993. A straight-A college student and corporate controller at Essex Financial Group Inc., she had recently separated from her 31-year-old husband, Harjeet Singh, and was moving into a new apartment. The last confirmed sighting was on Thursday, March 4, 1993: at about 5:45 p.m. she phoned her estranged husband to arrange meeting over business tax forms, and at roughly 6:00 p.m. a co-worker saw her drive her dark-gray Honda Accord onto the Virginia Beach-Norfolk Expressway heading to meet him.

When Harleen did not make contact, her father, Surendra Juneja, reported her missing the next morning. On the evening of Sunday, March 7, police located her Honda in the Wendy’s parking lot at Bonney Road and Independence Boulevard. Her body was found face-down behind the front seats; an autopsy confirmed she had been shot and the death was ruled a homicide. The car keys were missing and she was wearing the same black-and-white dress and white shoes she had worn when last seen. Detectives quickly developed a prime suspect but never gathered enough evidence to charge anyone, and no employees at the restaurant could recall when the vehicle had first appeared.

Who knew Harleen’s movements that evening or saw that Honda in the Wendy’s lot between March 4 and March 7?