Carolen Marie Wallace was found dead on February 14, 1990, in a Fairfax County storm sewer off an Interstate 95 ramp by a highway worker. She was 22, white, from Forestville, Maryland, and had been deceased for several days when the body was recovered. The Virginia State Police determined she died of a single gunshot wound to the head and opened a homicide investigation.

Wallace was known to frequent Washington, D.C., and friends described her as a good person who wouldn’t cause trouble for anyone. Her killing was noted as similar to other unsolved slayings of young women in the metropolitan area at that time. The case remains open and active with no suspects publicly identified and no arrests announced; it is treated as a cold case.

If anyone knew Carolen Wallace or has information about her movements in February 1990, please share what is known with the Virginia State Police.