Joleen Gardner

Joleen Sue Gardner, 21, a white female, crossed paths in Denver, Colorado, with Marvin Gayle Gray—a volatile drifter with a long record—through a mutual acquaintance. What began as an unwanted advance reportedly turned into a sudden, frenzied knife attack after she rebuffed him. Accounts describe Gray stabbing Gardner repeatedly—fourteen times—slaying her in 1982 and leaving investigators with a crime whose brutality spoke for itself even before they knew the full measure of the man who ...