DC DC- Gretta Rainey 35, Washington, May 13, 1987

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Homicide Victim: Gretta Denise Rainey | mpdc

On Wednesday, May 13, 1987, at approximately 12:20 pm, Ms. Gretta Denise Rainey was found deceased in the 600 block of 3rd Street, SE. The Metropolitan Police Department seeks the public’s assistance in gathering information regarding this homicide.

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On Wednesday, May 13, 1987, at approximately 12:20 pm, Ms. Gretta Denise Rainey was found deceased in the 600 block of 3rd Street, SE.

From washningtonpost:

The nude body of a 35-year-old woman was found yesterday in a Capitol Hill apartment next door to where a 22-year-old paralegal was found 18 months ago with her throat slashed, D.C. police said.

Gretta Denise Rainey, of 131 17th St. SE, apparently was strangled, according to police. Her body was found around noon in a first-floor apartment at 610 Third St. SE, where neighbors said Rainey had spent Tuesday night.

A neighbor who asked not to be identified said Roxanne Johnson, who lives in the apartment, had called home yesterday morning and became concerned when Rainey did not answer the telephone. Johnson came to the apartment with a coworker and discovered the body, the neighbor said.

Johnson could not be reached for comment yesterday.

On Oct. 27, 1985, the partly clothed body of Florence Eyssalenne was found in the apartment next to Johnson's, her throat slashed. The death of Eyssalenne, a 1984 graduate of Harvard University and a paralegal with the firm of Spiegel & McDiarmid, remains unsolved, police said yesterday.


Eyssalenne's death generated widespread publicity because she was the third paralegal employed by Spiegel and McDiarmid to be killed from June 1981 to October 1985. No links were established in the three deaths, according to police.

Yesterday, several residents of the 12 apartments in the three-story beige building gathered outside while uniformed police and plainclothes homicide detectives gathered evidence. They expressed fear after two women had been killed in their building in less than two years.

"This is the second time, and it gets scary when it's single women living in the building," said resident Willie Mae Alshadoy, tears streaming down her face.

Alshadoy and another woman resident who asked not to be identified said that yesterday's discovery of a second slaying victim in their building produced a chilling feeling. Turnover is high at the building, and residents are friendly but not particularly close, they said.


The women said the outside door to the building is always locked, and the neighborhood, sandwiched between South Carolina Avenue and the Southeast Expressway, is generally safe and quiet.

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They are going thrigh DNA testing for his perp who killed 2women in the same building in 2years my theory is that he was either a janitor or resident of the building. I hope he gets caught soon.

 

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October 2022

Channel 4 News reporter Paul Wagner, who broke the news about the DNA findings in a story broadcast last week, reported that D.C. police confirmed that the DNA samples obtained from the scene of Rainey’s murder matched those obtained at the scene of the October 1985 murder of another woman in an apartment on the same floor in the same building where Rainey was murdered at 610 3rd St., S.E.

The second victim, Florence Eyssalenne, 23, was also raped and strangled, police said at the time her body was found in her apartment.

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