Floyd Beatty, 28, was fatally shot on March 1, 1979, in Manchester Township, Michigan.

In 2010 a man already incarcerated, Anthony Guy Walker, confessed to pulling the trigger and said he had been paid $2,000 to kill Beatty. Walker told investigators he knocked on the door and shot the person who answered. Investigators linked that admission to a wider string of killings; Walker later pleaded guilty to multiple murders and received a life sentence.