In the pre-dawn hours of April 1, 1988, a security alarm brought officers to the gated Phoenix home of 55-year-old socialite Jeanne Alryn Gunter Tovrea. She was found in her bed, shot five times in the head. The intruder entered through a kitchen window and apparently bypassed the alarm on entry; costume jewelry was strewn and her purse emptied while valuable jewelry in another room was left untouched. The killer triggered the alarm on the way out, a detail investigators thought might signal that a paid killing was complete.

Investigators focused early on a theory of contract killing, with suspicion on her stepson Edward Hap Tovrea Jr., who stood to benefit from a trust. A man calling himself Gordon Phillips had been stalking Jeanne in the weeks before her death. The case went cold until 1994, when an anonymous tip identified the voice on Jeanne’s answering machine as James Butch Harrod. Harrod’s fingerprints matched 18 prints at the scene; phone records, financial transactions, and testimony from his ex-wife tied him to Hap Tovrea and to an alleged $100,000 arrangement. Harrod was arrested September 14, 1995, convicted of premeditated and felony murder on November 18, 1997, and sentenced to death. Hap Tovrea has denied involvement and was never charged.

Does anyone have memories or information about Jeanne’s life in Phoenix, the caller known as Gordon Phillips, or contacts between Harrod and members of the Tovrea family?