Edith Anna Ledet, 34, was attacked and stabbed 15 times while jogging near the Port Holiday Apartments on Postoffice Street in Galveston in the early morning hours of March 27, 1982. A medical student due to graduate from the University of Texas Medical Branch that spring, she was found lying on her back in a walkway wearing a gray jogging suit. She was described as having reddish hair, standing 5 feet 4 inches and weighing about 120 pounds.

The brutal nature of the assault prompted an intensive local investigation and a $5,000 Crime Stoppers reward for information. In August 1982 Coral Eugene Watts, 28, confessed to Ledet’s killing and to several other murders in South Texas between September 1981 and May 1982; Watts said he stabbed Ledet before dawn and later tried to attack another woman, Glenda Kirby, who escaped when his hands were slick with blood. Reports say Ledet’s murder fit the pattern of sudden, violent attacks Watts described.

Was anyone in Galveston in 1982 aware of suspicious activity near Postoffice Street or remember seeing someone in the area around dawn that morning?