Peggy Ann Pochmara was 22 when she was found strangled in a neighbor’s front yard in Detroit on October 8, 1979. There was no sign she had been sexually assaulted or robbed, a detail that led investigators to describe the killing as seemingly random.

Peggy’s age, appearance, and the method of killing later linked her case to Carl Eugene Coral Watts. Watts operated in Michigan and Texas in the 1970s and early 1980s and used varied methods, including strangulation. He became a suspect but was never charged in Peggy Pochmara’s murder. A plea arrangement Watts reached in Texas in 1982 granted him immunity for several confessed killings; Michigan authorities declined to accept the same terms, and no formal conviction for Peggy’s death was obtained.

Peggy’s murder remains officially unsolved. Can anyone who knew Peggy, lived nearby, or has information about October 1979 in that Detroit neighborhood come forward?