New Year is a time of fresh beginnings, marked by resolutions for the future and a sense of cautious optimism, but for homicide detectives in Louisiana, there would be no celebration over New Year 1988. On January 1, the naked, strangled corpse of 27-year-old Ruth Peart was found in the crawl space beneath a neighbor's house, around the corner from her own New Orleans home. Next morning, strollers on a levee between Orleans and Jefferson Parish found the seminude body of Corrine Morgan, 24, strangled like her predecessor. Despite the "coincidence" of location and timing, police were reluctant to draw a connection between the two murders. At this writing, they have no suspects in custody and the case remains unsolved.