Anthony Riggs was a 22-year-old Army Specialist who had just returned to Detroit in March 1991 after seven months of service in the Persian Gulf War with a Patriot missile battery. Less than a week after arriving home, in the early morning hours of March 18, he was shot and killed while loading a moving truck outside his wife’s family home. The slaying was first reported as random urban violence and drew national attention because Riggs had survived combat only to be killed at home.

Detroit police soon shifted their investigation inward. Within a week, Riggs’s 22-year-old wife, Toni Riggs, and her 19-year-old brother, Michael Cato, were arrested and charged; authorities alleged the motive was life insurance money and said the couple had marital problems and depleted savings while Riggs was overseas. Cato later confessed and said he was the gunman, but a judge barred his confession from being used against his sister. Prosecutors dropped the murder charge against Toni Riggs in April 1991 for lack of admissible evidence; Cato was ordered to stand trial.

Did anyone in Detroit at the time have additional information about Anthony’s movements or the people he was with in the days before March 18?