Winnie Johnson, 66, was killed on November 26, 2001, in Sumter County, Alabama, during what online accounts describe as a daytime burglary at her home. Identified more fully as Winnie Jane Hall Johnson, she was a retired postal worker. Her death was reported as a shooting, and the killing shocked the community because it appeared to come without warning and, for a time, without answers.

Years later investigators focused on Willie James Hodges, an Alabama man from the Epes area whose name surfaced after a separate homicide in Pensacola, Florida. The Alabama case therefore remains, in public view, unresolved while Hodges’s prosecution and conviction relate to a different murder in Florida.

Did anyone who knew Winnie, lived in Sumter County in 2001, or has information about daytime burglaries in the area around that date come forward with tips?