Corazon Frandsen, 26, was attacked on the evening of February 4, 1978, after stopping to pick up groceries following dinner with her in-laws. She had parked a two-door white Mercury Cougar at her apartment complex at 5272 S. Cobble Creek Road in Murray, Utah and was assaulted as she exited the vehicle. Corazon was found the next morning unconscious in bushes near a church parking lot at 5605 S. Vine Street. She was taken to a nearby hospital and died of blunt force trauma combined with exposure. She had been widowed five years earlier when her husband died of cancer.

The death is an unsolved homicide. No suspects or arrests have been publicly identified, and the case remains cold with the Unified Police Department seeking leads. Another resident, Patricia Luann Cobb, was also murdered in the same apartment building that same day; Ronald Dean Lancaster was later convicted in Cobb’s stabbing death, but no determination has been made about any connection to Frandsen’s killing.

Did anyone living in that Murray neighborhood in February 1978 notice anything unusual that night or have information to share?