Karessa N. Bartee, an African-American woman from Washington, D.C., was found dead in the 2900 block of M Street Southeast on the night of November 21, 2001. Police immediately treated the scene as a homicide, and detectives from the Metropolitan Police Department’s Homicide Branch canvassed the area, interviewed potential witnesses, and collected forensic evidence, but investigators were unable to reconstruct how she came to be on that stretch of M Street or exactly how the fatal encounter unfolded.

The department issued reward flyers offering up to $25,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction; those notices and an online entry were updated years later. The case appears on cold-case and unsolved homicide lists describing her death as an unsolved homicide. No suspect name or arrest is mentioned in the material reviewed, and the investigation has been periodically revisited as forensic methods change.

Does anyone have information about Karessa’s movements in Southeast D.C. on or just before November 21, 2001?