In the fading light of a December afternoon in 1979, the life of Helen Mae Dutcher, a 36-year-old white female, was brought to a brutal and tragic end in an alleyway in Ferndale, Michigan. On that day, December 1st, Dutcher was viciously attacked and stabbed twelve times in the neck and back. The assault happened behind a dry cleaning business in a horrifying act of violence that would remain unsolved for decades, leaving a community in fear and a family shattered.
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