In northwest Atlanta in early March 1986, 61-year-old Aretha Clements was found murdered in her apartment. Her son Felton discovered the scene on March 6, 1986. Investigators reported she had been sexually assaulted and manually strangled; her body was wrapped in a bedspread, her nightgown was disarranged, and her apartment had been ransacked. A 25-inch color television and her pocketbook were taken.

Clements was one of four elderly African American women killed in a roughly two-month span; the others were Annie Rochelle Copeland, Dena Mae Mike, and Grace Hill. A task force investigated the similar crimes. In April 1986 a 31-year-old day laborer, Richard Louis Hunter, was arrested and later linked by investigators and evidence to the murders. In May 1987 Hunter pleaded guilty to the four rape-murders and was given eight consecutive life sentences.

Did anyone in northwest Atlanta at that time notice suspicious activity or sales of stolen household goods that could shed more light on these crimes?