Denise Dunmore was a 26-year-old Black woman found dead in a Detroit parking lot in the pre-dawn hours of Monday, March 31, 1980. Her body was discovered at approximately 4:15 a.m.; she had been strangled. Investigators reported no signs of a struggle, no sexual assault, and no robbery — her expensive jewelry remained on her person.

Her death was one of several similar killings of women in and around Detroit that year. Police later investigated Carl Coral Eugene Watts as a prime suspect in a number of unsolved murders of women from that period, but Denise’s case was not proven in court and remains unsolved. The trail in her specific homicide went cold and no conviction was obtained for her death.

Who knew Denise or might remember that pre-dawn parking lot on March 31, 1980?