On the evening of Thursday, July 24, 1975, Jonah Foster, 95, and his wife Emma, 83, were found murdered in their Wichita home at 1643 N. Volutia. Their daughter, unable to reach them by phone, alerted her brother Quincy Foster, who called police after failing to get inside. Officers discovered both victims in a blood-spattered kitchen; Jonah had two chest stab wounds, each sufficient to cause instant death, and Emma suffered 13 stab wounds to her abdomen and chest.

Investigators concluded the scene had been staged to look like a murder-suicide when a butcher knife was placed in Emma’s hand, but forensics determined that was not the murder weapon. The actual weapon, described as a knife with a six-inch blade, was never recovered. Time of death was estimated between 7 and 9 p.m.; a neighbor saw Jonah on his porch about 7:20 p.m. and reported hearing nothing unusual, suggesting the attacker was very quiet. No motive, arrests, or publicly identified suspects have been reported.

Did anyone in Wichita at the time remember seeing or hearing anything that night near N. Volutia?