Shortly after 11:00pm on Friday, July 27th, 1990, a woman was walking home from work when she came across a car with a deceased female in the front seat. Officers responded to an empty lot located at 1st Avenue South and North Hill Street where they found a copper colored 1982 Chevy Malibu Station Wagon backed into a fence at the back corner of the lot. Barbara Jean Booker was in the front seat and had been shot multiple times. Upon checking, it was discovered the station wagon was a stolen vehicle. Booker had been seen arguing with a man outside a 4th Avenue disco club earlier in the night before they were seen leaving together in the station wagon she was found in. He was described as a black male, around 6’ tall, mid-twenties, muscular, with a dark reddish complexion and a flat nose wearing red and black Nike sweatpants the night he was seen with Booker. Booker also went by the names of BJ, Tresa, and Patricia Louise Daughtdrill. Barbara Jean Booker was 33 years old at the time of her death.
If you have any information regarding the murder of Barbara Jean Booker, please contact the Cold Case Homicide Unit at MNPDColdCase@nashville.gov
You can also call the Nashville Police Department’s Crime Stoppers Division anonymously at 615-742-7463
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