Mamie Mercer, 80, was found strangled in her bed at her South Hart Road home in Somerset, Kentucky, in October 1983. Her death was ruled a homicide and left the small community shaken; the initial Kentucky State Police inquiry focused on a local man, Michael Andrew Abner, but an alibi provided by another person prevented immediate charges and the case grew cold.

Decades later, in January 2010, Abner was arrested in connection with a different Somerset homicide. During that investigation he confessed to entering Mercer’s home on the October day in 1983 while another resident was in the shower and strangling her during a robbery. The person who had earlier given Abner an alibi later recanted.

Have any readers from Somerset known Mamie or remembered that 1983 investigation who can help fill in details about the case or the neighborhood then?