On March 12, 1981, 74-year-old Scottsdale resident John V. Bunchek was shot and killed after interrupting a burglary at a neighbor’s home. A man later identified as Ronald Turney Williams had been seen wandering the neighborhood, approached the neighbor’s house, and then entered the residence while John Bunchek went to investigate. Bunchek was found lying face down in a pool of blood with a single chest wound.

Williams was already a fugitive, having escaped a West Virginia penitentiary in 1979 where he had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer; during that escape he had also killed an off-duty state trooper. Witness descriptions produced a composite that led to Williams being identified; he fled Arizona the same day and was captured three months later in New York City after a shootout with FBI agents. The gun found on Williams was determined to be the weapon used in Bunchek’s killing. Williams was convicted February 10, 1984 of first-degree murder and armed burglary and was sentenced to death for the murder with an additional fourteen-year term for the burglary.

Did anyone in the neighborhood at the time recognize unusual activity that morning or have information about Williams’ movements before he left Arizona?