In the summer of 1983 Louisville was rocked by a series of killings of young women that investigators came to believe were linked. The final victim in that sequence was 22-year-old Deborah Miles, whose friends found her body in her bedroom apartment on July 7, 1983. She had been shot in the head, a detail that matched the pattern seen in the other recent homicides in the city.

Police treated the murders as the work of a single perpetrator because of similarities in the victims’ profiles and the method of killing. The investigation led to an arrest on August 9, 1983; Larry Lamont White was charged in connection with the deaths of Deborah Miles and another woman and with the attempted murder of a third woman. Court proceedings followed that produced convictions and sentencing in the cases that were tried at the time.

Did anyone who knew Deborah, or who lived in Louisville in 1983, notice anything that might help clarify how these victims were connected?