23 Cold Cases With $30K Rewards Await Solving By Howard County Police

HOWARD COUNTY, MD — Police officials are reminding residents that there's a reward of up to $30,000 for information in any of the Howard County Police Department's cold cases.

The police department periodically highlights unsolved homicide investigations in the hopes of generating new tips and information.

"Despite lengthy and complex investigations, family members of these homicide victims are still awaiting justice for their parent, sibling or child," the police department stated on its website.

Lori Boone, spokesperson for the Howard County Police Department, told Patch that the reward for information was increased a few years ago "in an effort to elicit tips."

"It's not new, we just like to remind people (about it)," Boone told Patch.

The oldest cold case sitting with the Howard County Police Department is for an unnamed woman called Jane Doe. In July 1971, an unconscious woman was found in a field off of Rt. 99 east of Woodstock Road. She was hospitalized and treated for her injuries, which appeared to stem from an apparent assault, the police department stated.

The woman died two months later without ever regaining consciousness. Efforts at the time to identify her were unsuccessful. She was described as standing 5’ 1” and weighing around 100 pounds. She had light brown hair that was beginning to gray and a hump in the midsection of her nose, the police department disclosed.

The most recent cold case involves the shooting death of Meiko Locksley, 25, that happened on Sept. 3, 2017. Locksley was found with a gunshot wound around 10:20 p.m. in the 5500 block of Harpers Farm Road. He was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead. Detectives haven't identified a suspect but believe the case likely wasn't random. They aren't sure if the shooting involved a robbery, was drug-related or part of an ongoing dispute, the police department stated. Locksley's photo can be seen below.