Antoinette Parks was 17 and six to seven months pregnant when her body was found on January 24, 1981, in a field in Adams County near 64th Avenue and Broadway. A student at Gateway High School in Aurora, Colorado, she had told people she planned to finish her education after the birth of her child and was reportedly excited about becoming a mother. She was described as someone who loved children and might have opened a daycare one day.

Antoinette had been stabbed 23 times; the injuries were so severe her family held a closed-casket funeral. The case went cold and remained unsolved for decades. Investigative genetic genealogy later produced a DNA profile that identified Joe Michael Ervin as the suspected killer. Ervin died by suicide in custody after being arrested following the July 1, 1981, killing of an Aurora police officer; his remains were later exhumed to confirm the DNA match.

Did anyone who knew Antoinette or who lived near 64th Avenue and Broadway in January 1981 notice anything unusual that winter?