On the night of Saturday, October 20, 1990, 63-year-old John Patrick Winston was fatally shot in the driveway of his Chevy Chase Circle home in Northwest Washington, D.C., at about 11:00 p.m. Winston, an attorney for the National Automobile Dealers Association, had just returned from a theater production with his wife and mother-in-law and remained in the car listening to liturgical music while they went inside. His wife, Jeanni, heard noises and then gunshots; she and her mother-in-law found him in the driveway with gunshot wounds to the head and chest. The assailant had fled before police arrived and it is not confirmed whether anything was taken.

The murder remains open and unsolved with no suspects identified. The National Automobile Dealers Association announced a $50,000 reward and the Metropolitan Police Department offered up to $25,000 for information. Friends and family described Winston as devout and charitable—active at Blessed Sacrament and known for helping the homeless; a relative said he had given his last dollar to someone on the street shortly before arriving home.

Did anyone in the Chevy Chase Circle area at the time see or hear anything that night, or know of anyone who might have information about Winston’s last movements?