On October 27, 2005, 81-year-old Josephine Selvage was killed inside her Albuquerque home. A retired school teacher living with Alzheimer’s disease, she was confronted late at night by an intruder who had entered through a back door left slightly ajar. The man moved through the house, rifled a purse on the kitchen table, then found and overpowered Josephine in a bedroom and strangled her with a piece of her own clothing. He continued searching the home but fled without taking anything.

The case remained unsolved for several years. Investigators initially looked into a possible link between her killing and another homicide three days earlier but dismissed the connection at the time. DNA later tied Clifton Bloomfield to Josephine’s murder and to several other killings; he was arrested on July 1, 2008, and eventually pleaded guilty to multiple first-degree murders. Does anyone have information about Josephine’s life in Albuquerque or details that might help others remember that night?