According to the January 30, 1973 edition of the Baltimore Sun Thelma Nash had been strangled and left in the park on the previous Sunday of that week. She had lived at the 2100 block of Callow Avenue. Ms. Nash was identified by an aunt, Mrs. Addie Davis who lived next door. The aunt said she had heard a description of the body on the news which prompted her to go to the morgue and identify the body. Police said the girl had been killed on her 19th birthday. The body was discovered early Sunday morning by a passing motorist apparently 2 hours after she was slain.
In the August 3, 1973 issue of the Baltimore Sun we learn that a 30 year old David L. Morris, a hospital porter, of 900 block of Brooks Lane pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the strangulation of Thelma Nash. Morris first contended he was innocent. 2 women said that he was with them on the night Ms. Nash went missing, but they later recanted their story claiming Mr. Morris had asked them to support that alibi. A piece of surgical cord was found in his car, and it was revealed that Ms. Nash was strangled with a piece of cord. Mr. Morris received the maximum 10 year sentence, by pleading guilty to the manslaughter conviction he escaped a possible first or second degree murder conviction.