On the morning of Saturday, May 9, 1981, 54-year-old Joyce Garder was found brutally stabbed to death inside her single-family home at W153 N8114 Elm Lane in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. The body was discovered at 7:22 a.m., and investigators reported no signs of forced entry and no items missing from the residence. The interior was described as undisturbed, suggesting Garder either knew her attacker or was persuaded to open the door.

With no clear motive such as robbery and no immediate suspects, the homicide investigation (case number CR85787) stalled into a long unsolved mystery that has continued to trouble the community. Few concrete leads were disclosed in the initial account, leaving the circumstances of how and why Garder was killed unresolved.

Did anyone in the area remember seeing Joyce Garder around May 9, 1981, or notice anything unusual at Elm Lane that morning?