Evelyn Halsey was 74 when she was found dead inside her Yuma home on South 11th Avenue after a Meals on Wheels worker checked on her on April 16, 1984. Neighbors noticed newspapers piling up and her sister Lilian, who lived next door, asked for a welfare check. Officers discovered a violent scene: investigators concluded Evelyn had been sexually assaulted and suffered a broken back.

Drag marks and blood indicated a struggle and detectives believe the attack began in the driveway and the body was dragged into the house. Robbery was ruled out as a motive. Reports of prowlers and peeping Toms had circulated in the neighborhood in the months before the killing; one arrest was made in connection with those incidents but no definitive link to Evelyn’s murder was ever established.

Does anyone have memories of that neighborhood in 1984 or information that could help bring answers?