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Muskegon crime mysteries: Talfrieda Covington, a pregnant mom, found stabbed many times outside home
Talfrieda Covington was a nice young lady. There’s no other way to say it. The friendly, loving single mother had none of the lifestyle habits associated with violence.
In the early summer of 1991, the 28-year-old Muskegon Heights High School graduate was taking adult education classes and wanted to attend Muskegon Community College in the fall, hoping to get secretarial or medical work.
“Frieda” didn’t drink, do drugs or go to clubs. She had no criminal involvement. No gang affiliations. No street life.
None of that insulated her from a cruel, early death that remains unsolved after 21 years.
Covington was found around 6:45 a.m. June 30, 1991, on the sidewalk in front of her home.
A grisly Muskegon police photograph of the crime scene, not shared with the public, tells the tale. Six weeks pregnant, Covington had been stabbed more than 20 times in the abdomen, chest and back.
“It was brutal, heinous,” said Muskegon Police Det. Matt Kolkema, currently assigned to the long-cold case. “It was a crime of passion.”
Another, more recent, story here - MORE THAN A NUMBER: Family still searching for answers 33 years after Muskegon woman was stabbed to death
