On August 7, 1977, Toni Schwenn, a 23-year-old White woman, was shot and killed in the East Towne Mall parking lot in Madison, Wisconsin, while a companion, Alphonce Manning Jr., was also fatally shot. According to a later confession by Joseph Paul Franklin, the attack began after an apparent traffic confrontation when Franklin fired into Manning’s torso and then shot through a closed window at the Toronado in which Schwenn had been riding. Franklin said he then approached Schwenn and fired a final shot into her back.

The case went cold for years. Early suspicion fell on Schwenn’s former boyfriend until his alibi was corroborated during a reinvestigation. In 1984 Franklin — by then imprisoned elsewhere — offered a detailed confession; an eyewitness who had been about 15 at the time identified him, and investigators developed corroborating forensic, handwriting, and bank-robbery evidence linking Franklin to the scene. Dane County charged Franklin with two counts of first-degree murder, and he was tried in February 1986.

Did anyone who knew Toni Schwenn or Alphonce Manning Jr. around Madison in 1977 notice anything unusual that day or remember the parking lot that evening?