Renee Bergeron was 27 when her body was found off the Interstate 10 service road near Theodore, Alabama, the day after she was last seen on November 13, 1993. A native of Marrero, Louisiana, of Creole descent and the mother of a young daughter, she had been living in the Mobile area under the alias Maria Martinez and had recently returned from two months of modeling and strip-club work in Texas and Chicago.

Her body was discovered on November 14, 1993, decapitated and severely mutilated, reportedly drained of blood with a vertical cut between the breasts. Cadaver dogs were used in the search for her head. Investigators questioned Maurice Hill, the man she lived with; he took a polygraph and told police she seemed fearful after returning and that her death might be drug-related. An attorney who had represented her also linked her to people involved with narcotics.

The case went cold with no arrests. The murder has been revisited in a podcast, a book, and by the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office, which continues to seek information. Does anyone have memories, photos, or information about Renee’s time in Mobile or the people she associated with in 1993?