In the pre-dawn hours of July 13, 1980, 26-year-old Glenda Richmond was found fatally stabbed in the grass about ten feet from the front door of her Braeburn Circle townhouse in Ann Arbor. She had finished a night shift as manager at the Brown Jug Restaurant and was planning to marry; her purse was nearby and she showed no signs of sexual assault, leading investigators to rule out robbery or a sexual motive.

Richmond’s killing was the second in a string of similar early-morning attacks that year; victims Shirley Small in April and Rebecca Huff in September were also stabbed multiple times in the chest and left outside their homes. A Detroit officer later suggested Coral Eugene Watts as a suspect; Watts was arrested in Ann Arbor in November 1980 but released for lack of direct evidence. He later confessed to multiple Texas murders and gave details about Michigan cases, but was never formally charged in Richmond’s death.

Did anyone in Ann Arbor at the time recall suspicious activity near Braeburn Circle that summer?