On the night of July 27, 1987, 27-year-old Rebecca Spencer was found murdered in her Warwick, Rhode Island, home. A newly divorced mother of two who was moving at the time, she was discovered by her brother after suffering a savage attack in which she was stabbed 58 times with a packing knife taken from her own residence. Her children were with their father that night.

Initially treated as possibly a robbery gone wrong because the murder weapon came from the home, the case remained unsolved for two years. In 1989 investigators following a separate triple homicide questioned a 15-year-old neighbor, Craig Price, who confessed not only to the later murders but also to killing Spencer in 1987. Price told police he had been peeping in Spencer’s windows, broke in to burglarize the house, and attacked her when startled by her presence; he was 13 at the time of Spencer’s killing.

The confession and Price’s age at the time prompted public controversy and helped prompt changes in how Rhode Island handles serious juvenile offenses. Does anyone have information about Rebecca, her family, or that Warwick neighborhood in the late 1980s that could add context to the case?