Rita Hester's passport photo. Rita's sister, Eartha Hester said Rita loved to travel and would bring her family gifts from Greece and other countries. (Credit: Taufiqul Chowdhury) She was college ...

Even after a decade living in Boston, Rita Hester always spent Thanksgiving with her close-knit family in Hartford. But in 1998, tired of travel after a recent trip, the 34-year-old broke with ...

She also accompanied Kathleen to Rita’s apartment to get her belongings a few days later. Photo of Brenda Wynne and Rita Hester. Hester’s family and her best friend, Brenda Wynne, were left to clean ...

The day after Thanksgiving in 1998, Rita Hester was murdered in Allston ... among a dozen other variations of violence, accompanied photos and names. “Hopefully by saying their names we ...