In Port Huron, Michigan, police responded to a report of a car accident that had occurred at around two a.m. on the morning of October 8th, 1970. When officers arrived on the scene, however, they were met instead with a bizarre murder.
There was indeed a vehicle involved, but it had actually backed into the house located at 3001 Dove Street. The gear shift was stuck in reverse, and the driver was slumped in the front seat, unconscious.
Upon closer examination, the man in the driver’s seat was found to have been stabbed twice in the right side, and was slowly bleeding to death. The victim was quickly identified as thirty-three-year-old Donald R. Simons. Though Donald was immediately conveyed to Port Huron Hospital, he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Witnesses to the crime reported that two men had been spotted fleeing from the scene of the supposed auto accident, though no one had gotten a good look at the assailants. Donald Simons had not been robbed, and a motive for the strange murder was never determined.
Not long afterwards, however, police issued an arrest warrant for a woman named Estelle M. Smith, though it was unclear what her involvement in the case might have been, and apparently the charges against her were soon dropped. However, in 2001, an individual going by the married name Estelle Kirby was extradited to Michigan from Virginia after her name was linked to the Social Security number of Estelle M. Smith.
The suspect was evidently never formally charged, and the crime remains unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 