The Murdered Therea Wilson

The Murdered
Thera Wilson
Hartford, Connecticut

🕯️ Remembering Therea Wilson: A Cold Case That Still Echoes 🕯️

In January 1977, 26 year old Therea “Thera” Wilson was found brutally stabbed in a Cadillac parked inside the Statler Hilton Hotel garage in Hartford, Connecticut. Investigators later learned she had likely been dead for 36 hours, with her body slumped in the backseat and blood smeared across the car windows. Despite many leads, the case went cold, and only a short summary remains on Connecticut’s cold case website. But behind those few lines was a young mother whose family has carried decades of grief and unanswered questions.
  Her son, Ennis Wilson, just seven years old at the time, was told she died in a car accident and didn’t learn the truth until twenty years later. Her brother, Kevin, who remembers the day vividly, has spent much of his life fighting to keep her case alive. He later co-created Connecticut’s Cold Case Playing Cards to encourage tips from inmates and bring justice not only for his sister but for other forgotten victims, many of them black sex workers whose cases received little attention. Kevin has shared additional long-buried details, including that Therea was killed on her birthday, January 12, and stabbed nearly fifty times. Despite the passing of nearly half a century, her family continues to honor her memory, remembering her as joyful, caring, and full of life, and they remain committed to finding answers.

Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Connecticut authorities at 860-548-0606 or 1-866-623-8058.

Sources:
https://portal.ct.gov/dcj/knowledge-base/articles/cold-cases/open-cold-cases-and-rewards?language=en_US
https://nhschiefadvocate.org/2023/11/out-of-the-cold-old-newspaper-clipping-sheds-light-on-46-year-old-unsolved-homicide/
https://www.ctpost.com/news/slideshow/Connecticut-s-Cold-Cases-109570.php