Susan Powell, a 45-year-old Black/African American woman, was found dead in Detroit on September 10, 2014. The Detroit Police Department ruled her death a homicide and opened a criminal investigation, but public details about the exact location of discovery and the cause of death are limited.

Investigators collected available evidence and tried to reconstruct Powell’s final movements and identify witnesses in the days before September 10, but those efforts did not produce a definitive lead. No suspects have been publicly named and no arrests have been announced; the investigation later grew cold and the case is listed in cold case databases such as Project Cold Case.

Anyone who knew Susan Powell or saw her in early September 2014, or who has information that could help, is asked to come forward to investigators.