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On February 24, 1994, Lawrence O’Connell, 35, left his job at the Voice of America in Washington, D.C., to pick up his son and never arrived. He was abducted walking to his car; his bound, fatally beaten body was found the next day in a grassy area near RFK Stadium. Investigators established his captors used his ATM and credit cards. Surveillance from a Capitol Hill ATM showed a short, white female using his card about twenty minutes after he left work. The card was later used at a drugstore and a Chinese restaurant in Charles County, Maryland, then at a liquor store back in Washington.

A 20-year-old homeless woman, Kimberly Crafton, was arrested months later and charged with felony murder after allegedly confessing that she and two men had planned to rob O’Connell, beaten him unconscious, and later assaulted him near RFK Stadium. Prosecutors dismissed the charges in January 1995 after detectives could not corroborate her statements and could not locate the two men; a detective later said her confession was likely false. The case then focused on an unidentified woman who resembled the ATM image. The murder remains unsolved.

Does anyone have information about the woman seen on ATM footage or about O’Connell’s movements that afternoon?