Rita Drury, 51, was shot and killed while babysitting her grandchild in Seattle on March 16, 1985. Police described the killing as an apparent robbery that turned deadly, leaving a family’s quiet evening shattered and the house a crime scene.

Investigators charged two men, Gerald Pizzuto Jr. and John Rodewald, with first-degree felony murder in April 1985. Pizzuto was arrested in Great Falls, Montana, in August 1985 and, during questioning by the Seattle Police Department, admitted he had been at the scene. In recorded statements he implicated Rodewald as an equal participant. Pizzuto was later tried and convicted; he was also accused in the death of John Jones, killed two weeks after Drury.

Does anyone have information about Rita’s case or remember the neighborhood in Seattle where this happened?