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Brenda Kay Parsh was a 27-year-old woman who had come back to Cape Girardeau, Missouri, to help her mother while her father was in the hospital, expecting a stressful family visit—not a home that had already been watched and chosen.

Late on Friday, August 12, 1977, someone who wasn’t supposed to be there was already inside the Parsh home on Koch Street, lying in wait. Investigators later said the intruder had been stalking Mary Parsh and assumed she lived alone, only to be surprised ...Read More
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Victim Details

Brenda Kay Parsh

Female

White / Caucasian

Cape-girardeau

MO

1977-08-12

27

Brenda

Kay Parsh

01/18/2026