Helen Dawn Williams (25) | 1900 block of Calumet (October 15, 1993)

[Chris]

http://www.39online.com/news/local/kiah-cold-case-williams-story,0,6949519.story

HOUSTON - Nearly 16 years after her death, police are still looking for the killer of 25-year-old Helen Dawn Williams.

Police say Williams, who attended TSU's Law School, was reported missing by her husband on October 15, 1993. He told police he had not heard from her in a while. Her family and friends said it was not like Williams to disappear for days without calling to check in with someone. A couple of weeks later, on November 1, 1993, a worker cutting grass in a Montgomery County field found her body. It was obvious she had been dead for several weeks.

Homicide investigators determined Williams was killed at her home in the 1900 block of Calumet. They believe the suspect knew Williams.

Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS or send a text message to TIP610 plus the tip to CRIMES &274637). There is up to a $5,000 reward and all tipsters will remain anonymous.

[Chris]

Sounds like one of those cases the police know who.... but don't have the proof yet.

God Bless her family, I hope they get the justice they are looking for. So sad when such a young bright good person gets taken from us.

[GG]

I had just moved to area where Dawn was found.  I pass by there at least one time a day & I always think of her. It was right off Eastex Frwy onRR road.  It seems everytime construction starts right in the area it stops before it even gets started. 

[Chris]

I wonder if her husband was in the contruction business?

The police know she was murdered in her house and the police believe she knew the killer

[antiM]

Text below from this link:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6636289.html

Helen “Dawn” Williams, 25, was a half-year shy of earning her law degree from Texas Southern University in 1993. Her father, Isaac Henderson, said he was looking forward to her joining his practice.

But on Oct. 15, 1993, his daughter went missing. Williams was last seen that morning by her husband, Raphael Williams, as he left their apartment in Houston's Third Ward. That night he called family and friends and learned she had missed classes at TSU that day. He reported his wife missing the next morning.

Her body was found Nov. 11, 1993, in a shallow grave in Montgomery County. Her throat had been repeatedly slashed.

Investigators said Helen Williams was killed at her home. They also believe she knew the attacker. Nothing was reported missing from the Williamses' home, except the clothes she had been wearing and her purse.

“I feel, like most parents in this circumstance, deprived of watching her obtain her goals and ambitions to live her life,” Henderson said. “It's something that will never be replaced. But we cannot hate the person who did this, but we do want him to face justice.”