Jeanette Olivia Thompson, 43, was stabbed to death early on Saturday, August 26, 2023, in the 1600 block of North Monroe Street in West Baltimore. The Baltimore Police Department investigated, and the Baltimore Sun's homicide database lists her death as a homicide.
According to the Baltimore Sun, officers responded to the 1600 block of North Monroe Street "for a call for a cutting around 5:44 a.m." and found Thompson "with numerous stab wounds."
Medics arrived and pronounced her dead at the scene. The Sun reported her death in a roundup of four people killed in separate shootings and stabbings across the city that Saturday, and Fox45 reported her name when police identified her two days later. WMAR-2 News listed her in its daily tracker of the city's killings. Detectives asked anyone with information to come forward.
Police did not say whether she was attacked on the street or inside a home, whether she lived on the block, or what led up to the attack. They did not describe a suspect or a motive, and they did not say whether anyone saw the stabbing or called for help. The early hour suggests that she may have been out overnight or that the attack began in the dark before dawn, but the record does not say so. No follow up report about the investigation could be found.
Her obituary, posted by Brown's Funeral Service, gives her full name as Jeanette Olivia Thompson and says she was born on February 24, 1980, and "completed her earthly life on August 26, 2023." It describes her as "a caring mother." Beyond that, little about her life has been made public, and no news outlet appears to have spoken with her family. Her name was read with the city's other homicide victims on WYPR. Jeanette Thompson is a common name, and searches for her turn up many other women, including the subject of an unrelated cold case in Connecticut.
The Sun described the location as near the Northwest Baltimore neighborhoods of Easterwood and Sandtown-Winchester. Sandtown-Winchester is one of the best known neighborhoods on the west side of the city, a community of rowhouses and churches that drew national attention after the death of Freddie Gray in 2015. North Monroe Street runs north and south through the area toward North Avenue.
Homicides in Baltimore began falling steeply in 2023 and 2024, reaching the lowest totals in decades, yet many killings from those years remain unsolved.
No arrest, criminal charge or court case connected to the death of Jeanette Thompson could be found in news archives or public records. More than three years later, there is no public sign that anyone has been held responsible. Anyone who was on or near the 1600 block of North Monroe Street late on August 25 or early on August 26, 2023, or who knew where Jeanette Thompson had been that night and who she was with, may know something important. Even a small detail, such as a name overheard, a vehicle seen nearby or a conversation remembered, can help detectives move a case forward. Anyone with information can call Baltimore Police homicide detectives at 410-396-2100, or leave an anonymous tip with Metro Crime Stoppers of Maryland at 1-866-7LOCKUP (1-866-756-2587).
