Candyce Margaret Woodward, 38, was murdered in her Tulsa, Oklahoma home on January 7, 1987. After taking her son to school that morning she agreed to watch a neighbor’s sick child. Later that day a man knocked, forced his way inside and attacked her with a hammer; she died of blunt force trauma. The child she was babysitting was left on the couch physically unharmed after the attacker told the child to stay and warned about spiders and snakes. Her husband found her body when he returned home that afternoon.

Candyce was a stay-at-home mother to an 11-year-old son and a 17-year-old daughter, an active PTA parent and a church member. The investigation has never produced an arrest or a publicly identified suspect. Investigators lost DNA evidence in the 1990s when a refrigeration unit malfunctioned and destroyed the material. The Tulsa Police Department lists the case as a cold case and asks anyone with information to contact their Cold Case Unit.

Did anyone in the Tulsa area know Candyce or have information about visitors or unusual activity at her home around January 7, 1987?