Hazel Meeker, 72, was killed in her Kansas home on January 27, 1977. That morning, after an argument at home, 16-year-old Richard Anthony Grissom Jr. left, armed himself with a railroad spike, and forced entry into Meeker’s residence. Meeker’s granddaughter discovered the scene when she went to check on her and found the residence turned into a crime scene.

Investigators followed footprints through fresh snow to nearby railroad tracks and a trailer park, where officers located and arrested Grissom. Evidence tied him that same day to a second break-in in which a handgun was stolen. Processed as a juvenile, he was committed to a Kansas juvenile facility and later released after several years; he reentered the criminal justice system as an adult. Does anyone have memories of Hazel Meeker or information from that neighborhood in 1977 that could add detail to what happened?