On the morning of September 14, 1980, 30-year-old Rebecca Greer Huff was fatally stabbed as she returned to her Waldenwood Apartment Complex home on Pauline Boulevard in Ann Arbor. A University of Michigan graduate student in the MBA program who also worked as a flight attendant and was known as Greer, she was attacked at about 4:30 a.m. and suffered 54 stab wounds to the chest. A witness heard screams and saw a man flee; investigators reported no sexual assault or robbery.

Huff’s killing was the third in a series of similar early-morning Sunday attacks that year, following the murders of 17-year-old Shirley Small and 27-year-old Glenda Richmond, prompting police to suspect a serial attacker the press called the Sunday Morning Slasher. The investigation later focused on Coral Eugene Watts, who confessed in a Texas plea deal to multiple murders, including Huff’s, although Michigan never relinquished its own cases and the Ann Arbor murders remained open.

If anyone knew Greer, lived near Waldenwood Apartments in 1980, or has information about those early-morning attacks, please share what is known.