Arleen Ruth Salcedo, 24 and of Puerto Rican descent from Adrian, was found dead in a field about two miles south of Blissfield, Michigan, on September 22, 1975. Her remains were in an advanced state of decomposition, and investigators at the time could not determine an exact cause of death. The case went cold and remained an unsolved loss for her family for decades.

In 2010, Anthony Guy Walker, already serving a life sentence for other violent crimes, admitted during a plea hearing to having murdered Arleen Salcedo. His confession was part of a larger agreement in which he also acknowledged responsibility for several other killings. Walker was not prosecuted separately for Salcedo’s murder under that plea agreement.

Does anyone have memories of Arleen, or information about her life in Adrian or the Blissfield area in 1975 that might add context to what happened?