Marjorie Margie Call, 57, was found dead inside her Cape Girardeau home on Brink Street on January 27, 1982. Investigators determined she had been strangled and was discovered partly nude on a bed in a back bedroom, a scene that suggested an intruder had entered her private space and killed her by hand. She was a widow who lived alone; her sons Don Call and his brother later spoke about how often they had checked on their mother and how the unanswered questions lingered for decades.

Police came to believe Call’s death was one of several homicides across the late 1970s into 1982 that shared disturbing similarities, including intrusions through bathroom windows in some cases. Those linked cold cases prompted regional agencies to form a Major Case Squad. Decades later DNA tied an imprisoned man, Timothy W. Krajcir, to related killings; charges in Cape Girardeau were announced December 10, 2007, and in April 2008 he pleaded guilty to five murders in Cape Girardeau, including Call, receiving multiple life sentences.

Did anyone in Cape Girardeau at the time remember unusual activity around Brink Street or a stranger seen near homes in the neighborhood?