Agnieszka Ziemlewski, 26, was found shot multiple times at close range in the neck on a wooded trail at the Metropolitan District Commission Reservoir in Farmington, Connecticut. Her body was discovered on September 24, 1998, about 100 feet from the gate at Old Mountain Road. She had recently moved into her own apartment in West Hartford and worked at an insurance company after graduating from the University of Connecticut. She had immigrated from Poland with her family in the early 1980s and was known to friends as Agnes or Nikki.

Investigators have long believed the attack was not random and that Agnieszka likely knew her killer. For decades the murder remained unsolved. In June 2020 an East Hartford woman, Katherine Pires, was arrested on felony counts of hindering prosecution and interfering with an officer for allegedly providing a fraudulent alibi in 1998 and later embellishing that account; she later took a plea deal for probation contingent on cooperation. No one has been charged with Agnieszka’s murder and the Farmington Police Department, working with the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit, continues to investigate. Is anyone who knew Agnieszka or who was in the Farmington area that night able to share information that could help close this case?