A young family’s new start in Mesa, Arizona, ended in tragedy on the morning of June 14, 1988. Loretta Lynn, 26 and pregnant with the couple’s second child, was found stabbed multiple times on the bedroom floor of the duplex the family had moved into two nights earlier. Her husband Alan returned from an overnight shift about 3 a.m., discovered the front door slightly open, and found their seven-month-old daughter unharmed in her crib.

Investigators found no sign of sexual assault or theft, and evidence at the scene included a small palm print, a partial footprint, a piece of thread foreign to the house, and skin under Loretta’s fingernails indicating she fought back. Alan was initially a person of interest but was cleared after an alibi and a polygraph; other leads, including a nearby teenage burglary suspect, produced no definitive link.

Her family has pushed for new forensic testing as technology advanced; DNA from the scene was submitted for advanced analysis and genetic genealogy, but no arrest has been made and the case remains unsolved. If anyone knew Loretta, her movements that night, or has information about people living near East Camino Street in June 1988, please come forward.