Ashley Flowers

She was wearing blue jogging pants, a multicolored camouflage halter top, and a slip-on shoe on her right foot. The left shoe was on the ground next to her. Now, the back of her shirt was soaked in what appeared to be blood, but deputies noted that no blood had pooled beneath her body and there was no blood spatter on the ground.

By about 7.30 a.m., the scene had been secured and the sheriff's lead detective and the parish coroner had arrived. Everyone gathered around to watch as the deputy coroner turned the body over so she was laying face up. It appeared that this woman had been stabbed several times in her upper chest.

By about 7.30 a.m., the scene had been secured and the sheriff's lead detective and the parish coroner had arrived. Everyone gathered around to watch as the deputy coroner turned the body over so she was laying face up. It appeared that this woman had been stabbed several times in her upper chest.

By about 7.30 a.m., the scene had been secured and the sheriff's lead detective and the parish coroner had arrived. Everyone gathered around to watch as the deputy coroner turned the body over so she was laying face up. It appeared that this woman had been stabbed several times in her upper chest.

There were deep grass impressions on the victim's face, chest, arms, indicating that she had been there for at least a few hours, which posed a problem for evidence collection because it had rained the night before.

There were deep grass impressions on the victim's face, chest, arms, indicating that she had been there for at least a few hours, which posed a problem for evidence collection because it had rained the night before.

There were deep grass impressions on the victim's face, chest, arms, indicating that she had been there for at least a few hours, which posed a problem for evidence collection because it had rained the night before.

The rain wasn't all bad news, though. The road was muddy, and investigators quickly zeroed in on tire tracks left on the west side of the road. CSI techs took photographs and poured a cast of the tire impressions. But as Detective Jackson explains, they didn't yield any useful information in that moment.

The rain wasn't all bad news, though. The road was muddy, and investigators quickly zeroed in on tire tracks left on the west side of the road. CSI techs took photographs and poured a cast of the tire impressions. But as Detective Jackson explains, they didn't yield any useful information in that moment.

The rain wasn't all bad news, though. The road was muddy, and investigators quickly zeroed in on tire tracks left on the west side of the road. CSI techs took photographs and poured a cast of the tire impressions. But as Detective Jackson explains, they didn't yield any useful information in that moment.

This crime scene was so fresh, there weren't any persons of interest yet. But the soft ground did give investigators a strong idea of what happened. There, leading out from those tire tracks, were what appeared to be drag marks, which ended where the woman's body was found.

This crime scene was so fresh, there weren't any persons of interest yet. But the soft ground did give investigators a strong idea of what happened. There, leading out from those tire tracks, were what appeared to be drag marks, which ended where the woman's body was found.

This crime scene was so fresh, there weren't any persons of interest yet. But the soft ground did give investigators a strong idea of what happened. There, leading out from those tire tracks, were what appeared to be drag marks, which ended where the woman's body was found.

In other words, there was evidence to suggest that the victim was already dead when she was unceremoniously dumped in that ditch, and they believed that she'd been killed elsewhere. Which meant that somewhere out there was probably another bloody crime scene. The woman's remains were transported from the scene by the deputy coroner for an autopsy.

In other words, there was evidence to suggest that the victim was already dead when she was unceremoniously dumped in that ditch, and they believed that she'd been killed elsewhere. Which meant that somewhere out there was probably another bloody crime scene. The woman's remains were transported from the scene by the deputy coroner for an autopsy.

In other words, there was evidence to suggest that the victim was already dead when she was unceremoniously dumped in that ditch, and they believed that she'd been killed elsewhere. Which meant that somewhere out there was probably another bloody crime scene. The woman's remains were transported from the scene by the deputy coroner for an autopsy.

In the morgue, her fingerprints were taken in hopes of identifying her. But it was 1993, and while online databases were technically a thing, Caddo Parish was still using physical print cards for comparison, which, as you can imagine, was a painstaking and time-consuming task. Now, 1993 happened to be the year when Shreveport had a record of 86 homicides, tied only in the year of 2021.

In the morgue, her fingerprints were taken in hopes of identifying her. But it was 1993, and while online databases were technically a thing, Caddo Parish was still using physical print cards for comparison, which, as you can imagine, was a painstaking and time-consuming task. Now, 1993 happened to be the year when Shreveport had a record of 86 homicides, tied only in the year of 2021.

In the morgue, her fingerprints were taken in hopes of identifying her. But it was 1993, and while online databases were technically a thing, Caddo Parish was still using physical print cards for comparison, which, as you can imagine, was a painstaking and time-consuming task. Now, 1993 happened to be the year when Shreveport had a record of 86 homicides, tied only in the year of 2021.

This coroner, who served all of Caddo Parish, was literally buried in bodies. Despite being overworked, the coroner was able to conduct the woman's autopsy within a day and determine that the stab wounds on the woman's chest were her cause of death, or as he wrote it in his report, a, quote, "'laceration of the heart and left lung.'"