Adeline McLaughlin was 84 when she was found dead in her apartment at a downtown retirement community in St. Petersburg, Florida, on June 25, 1983. Her death was violent: she had been sexually assaulted and suffocated with a pillow, and her apartment had been burglarized.

The case went cold for many years as investigators followed leads that eventually dried up. In 2006 DNA from the crime scene was matched to a man named Tony Ables. At the time of McLaughlin’s murder Ables had been released on parole five months earlier; he was later booked in connection with her death but was not prosecuted for this offense because he was already serving a life sentence for another murder. Law enforcement considers the case closed.

If anyone knew Adeline, saw signs of a burglary at the retirement community in June 1983, or has information about that time and place, please come forward.