(ABC 6 NEWS) - It has been nearly 11 years since Cynthia Haisley was murdered in Rochester.

Originally from Missouri, she came to Rochester looking for treatment at Mayo Clinic.

Several months later, she was found dead. To this day her killer is still on the loose.

“The crime occurred on, the discovery of her body was October 4th, 1998. It was not raining, but it was a cold day,” said Capt. Brian winters with the Rochester Police Dept.

Cynthia Haisley came to Rochester in the summer of 1998 with no job and no place to live.
     
“She spent some time at the Dorothy Day House. I'm not sure if she sought refuse at the Salvation Army.”

She had exhausted some of those options and at the time of her death was primarily residing in the Kutzsky Park area, underneath a bridge where her body was discovered.

Police say Haisley had been struck in the head, most likely by one of the large rocks covering the area.

But her killer was never been brought to justice and the case eventually faded into the background.

That is until nearly a year ago when authorities, including Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, took another look at the case.

“We re-interviewed a number of different witnesses in this case. We reexamined evidence. Resubmitted evidence,” said Special Agent Jeff Hansen with the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

Some of the evidence was resubmitted for newer, more sophisticated DNA testing, technology that didn't exist 11 years ago.

“The resubmitted evidence, yes, we have received lab results back on that,” said Special Agent Jeff Hansen.

However police won't say what "kind" of results they've gotten, or whether they're any closer to solving the case, but they are confident an Olmstead County Prosecutor will eventually review the new results. 

More than a decade after Haisley's body was found underneath the 16th Avenue Bridge in Rochester you’d find remnants of an itinerant community.

A cardboard bed, a crumpled bed sheet, a discarded sweatshirt, signs the homeless still stay here, co-existing with the memory of a cold day in October, 11 years ago.

“The community deserves closure, but more importantly Cynthia Haisley's family deserves closure.”