Juanita Hardy was a 23-year-old African American woman whose body was found on February 17, 1992, in a room at the Monterey Motel in Highland Park, Michigan. Her death was ruled strangulation, and investigators later linked her killing to a series of similar murders of vulnerable women in the area that became known as the Woodward Corridor cases.

The investigation led to the arrest of Benjamin Thomas Atkins on rape charges; Atkins confessed to eleven murders, including Hardy’s, and court testimony described a pattern of luring victims to isolated locations such as motels or abandoned buildings, then sexually assaulting and strangling them. In April 1994 Atkins was convicted and received multiple life sentences.

Did anyone in Highland Park or the motel community at that time have information about Juanita’s movements or anyone she might have met in February 1992?