Dana Chisholm’s killer taunted D.C. police even before they knew she was dead.
Chisholm, 25, a secretary with a sweet smile who moonlighted as an escort, was found strangled on Feb. 27, 1995, inside her apartment in the affluent Crestwood neighborhood in Northwest Washington.
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D.C. police had gone to Chisholm’s apartment after a man impersonating D.C. detective had called her parents in Rock Hill, S.C., to say she had been arrested for prostitution. When the parents called the real detective back, he denied knowing anything about her arrest and went to check on Chisholm at 3808 Argyle Terrace, police said.
The detective found her naked with a cord around her neck. Her killer had left a note.
The killer then began to call the detective and taunt him, police said.
The small-town Southern girl had moved to the District two years earlier and had been working at the Hudson Institute think tank for about four months.
She had called police a year earlier to complain that a 23-year-old former boyfriend was reportedly stalking her. She moved into the Crestwood neighborhood near Rock Creek Park, one of the safest in the city. Former FBI Director William Sessions lived four doors down. Her apartment overlooked Sen. Jay Rockefeller’s estate.
There was no sign of forced entry into her basement apartment and police believed that Chisholm knew her killer. The place had been ransacked. Police reportedly found an issue of the City Paper with several advertisements for available men circled in ink. Police interviewed some of the men that she dated.
Anyone with information on the case can contact police at the new tip line at 888-919-2776 or through a text message number: 50-411. The Metropolitan Police Department is offering a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to a conviction.
