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Helen Mae Dutcher, a 36-year-old white female, was brutally murdered on December 1, 1979, in Ferndale, Michigan. She was attacked in an alleyway behind a dry cleaning business, where she was stabbed twelve times in the neck and back. The assault occurred in broad daylight and was witnessed by a man named Joseph Foy, who saw the victim struggling with her assailant from his nearby porch. Despite Foy reporting the incident to police and providing a composite sketch of the attacker, the case went c ...Read More
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Helen Mae Dutcher
Female
White / Caucasian
Ferndale
MI
1979-12-01
36
Helen
Mae Dutcher
11/08/2025







