Essel G. Levin, a 45-year-old White woman, was found lying face down in bushes near the front porch of a residence in the 1900 block of Sussex Lane in Colorado Springs. Police were called to the scene on November 19, 1981; records list her death as occurring November 18, 1981. Investigators determined she had been shot at close range, the wound occurring just steps from a doorway.

Reports note no obvious sign of a struggle in the street and no publicly identified suspect or arrest in the years that followed. The Colorado Springs Police Department has the case in its cold case files and continues to list it as an unsolved homicide.

Did anyone in the area around Sussex Lane in November 1981 notice anything unusual or have information that could help resolve what happened to Essel G. Levin?