Marita Choquette was 27 and worked as an editorial assistant at WKAR-TV in East Lansing when she disappeared on June 15, 1978. Nearly two weeks later a farmer in Alaiedon Township found her mutilated body on June 27, 1978; she had been stabbed 17 times, her hands had been severed, and her body was found positioned as if she had fallen backward from her knees and covered by cement blocks.

Don Gene Miller, who knew Choquette from her time at the Michigan State University library, later confessed to taking her to breakfast and killing her. He said he severed her hands because he could not unlock handcuffs he had placed on her wrists. Miller was arrested on August 16, 1978, after he raped and attempted to murder a 14-year-old girl and her 13-year-old brother. As part of a plea agreement he confessed to Marita’s death and to other victims and led authorities to body locations; reduced charges of manslaughter were entered in 1979.

Did anyone in East Lansing at the time remember Marita’s work at WKAR-TV or see her the week before June 15?