 They reopened the Wilson case in 1986 after receiving new information.In August 1984, Deborah Sykes, a young, white, married copy editor, was raped and murdered by stabbing in the early morning about 6 am on her way to work at "The Sentinel" newspaper in Winston-Salem.She had recently started working there, having returned to her home state in July from the Chattanooga News-Free Press in Tennessee.