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graduate student Rebecca Greer Huff was found dead outside her Walden Hills apartment, off Pauline Boulevard and South Maple Road. She had been stabbed fifty-four times with a screwdriver with a quarter-inch shaft.
    Huff had a deep love for Ann Arbor and the University of Michigan. She had recently been elected to the student government. Her father, William Huff, stated that his daughter worked for Delta Airlines. “She got to see the world when she worked for Delta.” He also knew that his daughter would succeed in whatever she did. “I think she would have been quite successful. She was very attractive, intelligent, and considerate.”
    The popular Huff had been out late with some friends. She left one of her friends’ apartment at 3:45 A . M . to return to her own apartment. She drove home, parked her car in the apartment parking lot, and walked at least one hundred feet from her car to her apartment door when she was attacked.
    Huff’s autopsy report indicated that her death was brutal. She had been stabbed fifteen times in the heart, four times in the left lung, and six times in the liver. She had a total of twenty-eight cuts through her blouse.

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    The Ann Arbor press noticed a pattern among the local murders: all white women attacked outside of apart-ments at or around 4:00 A . M . on Sunday mornings. Thus was born the “Sunday Morning Slasher.”
    The Ann Arbor Police Department also took notice. They created a task force to put a stop to the brutal murders. Word got out immediately and spread to Detroit.
    When Sergeant James Arthurs, of the Detroit Police Department, heard about the Sunday Morning Slasher murders, he could not help but recall a similar attack back in 1969, which he had dubbed the “Paperboy Attacks.” It was an attack by a fifteen-year-old newspaper delivery boy who assaulted a young white woman by the name of Joan Gave, who lived on Van Dyke Street. Arthurs immediately contacted the Ann Arbor Police Department to inform them of the attacker, Coral Watts. Ann Arbor detectives added Watts’s name to an already extensive list of suspects.

    Early the next month, on October 6, 1980, at 10:00 P . M ., twenty-year-old Sandra “Sandy” Dalpe, of Windsor, Ontario, was attacked and stabbed by an unknown black male on Lincoln Avenue. Somehow, she survived the attack.
    Dalpe described the attack.
    “I was walking home from a night-school class and I was across the street and two houses back from where I lived,” she recalled. “I heard two footsteps behind me, and as I was about to cross the street, I was stabbed in the back and the knife went through my left shoulder blade.”

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    The blow was so forceful that she received broken ribs, a punctured lung, and a three-inch-wide wound.
    “Apparently, the knife was one-half inch from my heart.” Dalpe also received a four-inch cut on the right side of her neck, as well as a two-inch stab wound on her left shoulder. She also received two large parallel slices on the left side of her face that she described as looking like “long letter J ’s.”
    These J ’s were particularly brutal. “One goes from my mouth to my ear,” she recalled, “and the other one [is] one inch below. It completely severed my external jugular vein, the sternocleidomastoid muscle, and the muscles beneath it.”
    The damage did not end there. “The spinal assessory nerve and facial nerve [were] severed. I have paralyzed muscles and extremely weak muscles and muscles that have wasted away.”
    The attack also made it difficult for her to eat. She also had problems with raising her arms and moving her head. Dalpe claimed that she saw the man who attacked her. “I did see this evil person that morning waiting across the street at a bus stop. He was sitting in it. I thought that was odd and I wondered if he was hurt. I actually felt guilty not seeing if he was okay before I got on my bus to
    go to work.”
    Dalpe also described her