On a late Saturday night in August 1993, 18-year-old Audrey Hamilton finished a shift at a McDonald’s in southeast Washington, D.C., and set out on the several-block walk from Martin Luther King Avenue to her home on Mississippi Avenue. She carried an empty glass bottle for protection. The next morning, August 29, her body was found behind a decrepit apartment building in the 600 block of Savannah Street SE, near Ballou High School. She had been raped and strangled.

Witnesses described a man about five feet six inches tall and roughly 120 pounds placing his arm around Audrey and walking away with her; a second man was seen nearby, leading police to believe at least two people may have been involved. The case went cold and remains unsolved. Investigators noted a possible link to another woman, Deborah McManus, whose body was found behind the same high school two months later, but no public confirmation has tied any arrest in that later case to Audrey’s murder.

Anyone who lived in Congress Heights in August 1993 or who has information about the men seen with Audrey is asked to come forward.