On Monday, Aug. 21, 1989, the quiet Durham neighborhood of American Village was stunned when a 34-year-old mother was found murdered in her home. Cynthia Kirk, a married mother of a nineteen-month-old daughter, worked as a second-shift supervisor at the tobacco company Liggett & Myers. Normally, she would pack a diaper bag for her daughter, Suzanne, before taking her over to a babysitter’s house around 2:15 p.m.. But on the afternoon of August 21, Cynthia, known as Cindy to her friends and family, and Suzanne never arrived at the babysitter’s home. Concerned, the sitter tried to call Cindy. When she couldn’t reach her, she phoned Cindy’s sister, Beverly Sechler, who lived nearby. When…