On September 15, 2012, JoAnne Moore DeSha was found strangled to death in her home. JoAnne's daughter found her lying on the floor with the cord of a vacuum cleaner wrapped around her neck. The killer, a 20-year-old neighbor named Reginald Mapp, had searched the house for valuables. He took two rings from JoAnne's fingers and tried to drive away in one of her cars.