Angela Hughes

Do you know who murdered Angela Hughes?
Angela Hughes was a 26-year-old Black woman from Louisville, Kentucky, and a mother to a two-year-old daughter named Tenese. Her family described themselves as tight-knit, and her sister, Rita, remembered Angela as a "beautiful, intelligent young woman willing to help anybody."

In June 2006, Angela was found inside her apartment on Standard Avenue. She had been stabbed to death. The date of her death was recorded as June 15, 2006. The tragedy for her family was compounded just 13 days later when her 24-year-old sister, Rita, was shot and seriously injured in an argument outside a nightclub. Though the timing was close, police did not believe the two crimes were connected.

The investigation into Angela's murder continued for years without any arrests. Her family held vigils and asked for the public's help, stating their belief that they knew who was responsible for her death. According to the family, investigators told them at the time that there were problems with witnesses in the case. In the years that followed, Angela's mother and sister Rita raised her daughter, Tenese.

As of a family appeal in December 2011, no arrests had been made and no suspects had been publicly named. The Louisville Metro Police Department continues to list the case among its open homicides from 2006. The murder of Angela Hughes remains unsolved.