Do you know who murdered Howidaa Abdeldaim? Howidaa Abdeldaim was a 42-year-old Black woman from Louisville, Kentucky, whose life ended violently on August 23, 2018. That late-summer day, police were called to an apartment building on Carl Court, a cluster of modest units in the city’s Jacobs neighborhood. Inside one of those units, Apartment #5 at 1835 Carl Court, they found her, the victim of a homicide that would immediately become another entry in Louisville’s growing ledger of unsolved killings.
The details that have been released about what happened to her are stark and minimal. Official summaries describe her simply as having been “murdered” at that address on the date she was found, with no elaboration on the precise circumstances or weapon involved. Her case appears in the Louisville Metro Police Department’s gallery of open homicides from 2018, a page that functions both as a public record and a quiet memorial, pairing faces and names with the bare facts of where and when each life was taken. Elsewhere, cold-case listings repeat the same information almost like a refrain: her name, her age, the word “homicide,” and that same Carl Court apartment, reinforcing how little about the crime has been allowed into the public eye.
In the years since, the story of her death has lived mostly in those spare digital entries. The open-homicide gallery keeps her photograph and case information in circulation, and cold-case databases continue to highlight that a woman was killed in that small upstairs unit and that the person responsible has not been publicly identified. The persistence of her name on these lists signals that investigators still regard the killing as unresolved; there has been no public announcement of a suspect, no news of charges filed, no record of a trial or conviction tied to the crime. Based on these ongoing classifications and the absence of any reports of an arrest, her death remains officially an open, unsolved homicide, with Louisville Metro Police still asking anyone who knows what happened in Apartment #5 that day to come forward.
