Dawn Jerome was 20 when she was found strangled to death on October 2, 1979. She left behind two young daughters, Amber, age seven, and Amy, age one, and her husband Richard K. Jerome, who faced the immediate practical fallout of the homicide: ambulance and funeral expenses and arranging care for the children.

Over the years her name has sometimes surfaced in connection with Carl Eugene Watts, a serial killer later linked to murders involving strangulation and stabbing, and some secondary accounts place her death in Taylor, Michigan and suggest it might fit a broader pattern, but those accounts do not report any formal charging decision in her case.

If anyone knew Dawn, her family, or has information about the circumstances in October 1979, please come forward.