Theresa Carey was 19 when she was murdered during a home invasion in Adrian, Michigan, on January 15, 1979. She had been visiting 24-year-old Yolanda Torres Madison at the West Maple Avenue residence. A 19-year-old intruder, Anthony Guy Walker, tied up and beat both women and then shot them to death. The attacker set the house on fire; Yolanda’s 11-month-old daughter, Jessica, died of smoke inhalation.

The case went unsolved for decades. Evidence from the 1979 crime scene was later re-examined using DNA testing and linked to Walker, who by then was incarcerated for a separate rape conviction. In December 2010 Walker pleaded guilty to three counts of open murder, including Theresa Carey’s killing, and in January 2011 he received three life sentences without parole.