ABC13 UNSOLVED: She took a shortcut to school that cost her her life. 28 years ago, Worthing High basketball star Trellis Sykes was walking to school when she was attacked, raped and murdered. For the first time, HPD is sharing new details about the case and Trellis' aunt is sharing her memories of her beloved niece. ABC13's Courtney Fischer shares this stunning story in her latest episode of Unsolved.
HOUSTON, Texas -- It's been 28 years since Trellis Sykes, a 16 year-old high school basketball star, was murdered while walking to Worthing High School.
" tenacious. The girl could run. She could jump. She could shoot," Evans says."And I tell you, you could not intimidate her.""You can see that she had an idea where she was going, until evilness approached her," says Detective Darcus Shorten, with Houston police. We met Shorten along the trampled path of grass in that overgrown lot where Trellis' lifeless body was found decades ago."This is where the disaster occurs. This is where a blitz occurs.
"I didn't leave my house for two months," says Pamela."It was scary. Didn't know who this person was. And always everyone would say, 'Oh Trellis looks just like you.' And that made me scared." "The ladies would all describe the same kind of tennis shoes, same height..." says Sergeant Lauren White, with Houston police. White worked in the sex crimes division back in '94."It was just an odd coincidence-well, this just wasn't a coincidence."
"When we saw the map of these close clusters of all these locations where these sexual assaults occurred and she is almost in the middle during the same time period, there's too many coincidences for us to believe that it was someone else," says Lt. Kathryn Reiser, another Houston police investigator who worked the sex assault cases from the early to mid-nineties.
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