Hazel Lewis, 52, was found dead on November 14, 2007, in a burning trash bin behind an elementary school in the Washington Park neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. Her body showed signs of strangulation, and she had been stripped and set on fire. The circumstances were strikingly similar to Theresa Bunn, who was found two days earlier in the same area; both women were stripped, strangled, and burned.

Lewis is one of a larger group of predominantly African-American women discovered over nearly two decades in Chicago under eerily similar conditions, a pattern that prompted investigative coverage called the Unforgotten 51. Some experts and the Murder Accountability Project have suggested these deaths could be linked to one or more serial killers sometimes referred to as the Chicago Strangler, though Chicago police have not concluded a single perpetrator is responsible. Hazel Lewis’s homicide remains unsolved.

If anyone knew Hazel, saw anything in Washington Park around November 2007, or has information that could help, please share it with investigators.