Olga Akinyi Ooro, 34, was last seen on the evening of Thursday, July 16, 2020, returning to her apartment in the 300 block of Massachusetts Avenue NW with her boyfriend, Darnell Sterling, and her seven-year-old son. Elevator security footage shows the three of them together; that footage is the last confirmed sighting of Ooro. Two days later the child was found wandering and crying in the apartment hallway and said he did not know where his mother was, prompting a Metropolitan Police Department investigation that was later handled by the Homicide Branch.

Authorities focused on Sterling, who had a documented history of domestic violence against Ooro and was under a court order to stay away from her at the time she vanished. Prosecutors said surveillance video showed Sterling struggling to remove a large object wrapped in a blanket on a cart from the building, and a K-9 unit detected the scent of a deceased person in Sterling’s car and in areas of the apartment building. Prosecutors contended Ooro was killed in her apartment, the scene was cleaned, and her body disposed of. Sterling was charged with second-degree murder and later found guilty; Ooro’s remains have not been located.

Do readers who knew Olga or her routines in that neighborhood have information that could help explain what happened after the elevator ride?