Edith Crossette, an 83-year-old white woman and regular attendee of First Baptist Church, was found strangled outside near the front porch of her home at 1510 W. St. Joseph in Lansing, Michigan, on February 14, 1981. Her killing was one of several similar attacks on elderly women in the area between 1980 and 1982, which alarmed the community.

Investigators later identified Michael Darnell Harris, born in Muskegon Heights and described as having a troubled youth and a transient lifestyle, as a prime suspect after his December 7, 1982 arrest in connection with an attack on another woman. Harris was convicted of several murders and sentenced to life in prison, but he was never charged in Crossette’s death. Mid-2010s DNA testing on evidence from one of Harris’s convictions did not match him, prompting reviews and questions about the evidence in his cases. Crossette’s murder remains unsolved.

Did anyone in Lansing at the time recognize unusual activity around 1510 W. St. Joseph in February 1981 or have information that hasn’t been shared with investigators?