Wanda Whigham, a 35-year-old White woman, was found dead inside an apartment at 2447 W. Broad Street in Columbus, Ohio, on August 5, 1987. She and a second victim, Marvin Swackhammer, were discovered with bodily wounds and pronounced dead on arrival; the coroner estimated both had been dead about 24 to 36 hours when found. Neighbors reported hearing loud thumping in the early morning hours around August 4, and the landlord noticed a broken window in the apartment door before entering and finding a strong odor that led to police being called.

Investigators collected fingerprints and palm prints and focused on a visitor to the apartment, Eddie Lee Johnson. At his first trial jurors convicted him of Swackhammer’s murder and of involuntary manslaughter in Whigham’s death; those convictions were later reversed by the Ohio Court of Appeals in August 1990 because of improperly admitted prior-acts evidence and ineffective assistance of counsel. Whigham’s death remains listed by the Ohio Attorney General as an unsolved homicide under Columbus Police Department case number 944.

Broad Street in August 1987 or have information about the apartment at 2447 W. Broad Street?