Joleen Sue Gardner, 21, was killed in Denver in 1982 after rebuffing a man known to her through a mutual acquaintance. According to accounts, the encounter escalated into a frenzied knife attack in which Gardner was stabbed fourteen times. The brutality of the assault marked the case from the start.

Marvin Gayle Gray was identified, arrested and prosecuted for Gardner’s killing. In 1984 he was convicted in Colorado and sentenced to 16 years in prison. The Denver case is cited in later profiles of Gray as one clear instance in a pattern of violent crimes.

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