Lena Bruce had a bright future ahead of her.

She just graduated from a top university and landed a great job, and she was settling into

a new apartment in the heart of Boston's South End neighborhood, already living the life

she'd worked for since she was a child.

But one night in the summer of 1992, an assailant altered the

course of Lena's dreams and stole that bright future from her. That assailant thought he'd gotten

away with it, but there's no hiding from DNA evidence. It took more than two decades, but justice

finally landed.

And now there's one less case left unsolved in New England.

I'm Kylie Lowe, and this is the case of Lena Bruce on Darkdowneast.

It was the case of the case of Lena Bruce on Darkdowneast. It was the evening of July 10th, 1992,

and 21-year-old Lena Bruce was just seeing her roommate Barbara off for the weekend from the steps of their stately brownstone at 694 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston's South End neighborhood.

They'd moved into the first floor apartment in the Bowfront building just a few weeks earlier,

and Lena absolutely loved that apartment. It was her first place after graduating from

Tufts University and beginning her career as an electrical engineer. Lina had worked

her whole life to reach that goal, and the apartment was where her future was supposed to take shape.

Barbara was headed to Philadelphia that weekend, and Lena was supposed to go with her, but she

changed her mind at the last minute. Philly was her hometown, and she was planning to attend

a Greek festival of black fraternities and sororities with Barbara, but decided to stay back in Boston

instead. According to reporting by El Kim Tan for the Boston Herald, Lena had just received

one of her first paychecks, so she wanted to do a little furniture shopping.

They didn't speak again after Barbara left. She'd only be gone a few days, and they'd see each other again on Sunday. But when Barbara returned on the evening of July 12th, around 8 p.m. and stepped

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