MI MI- Edward Sayers, member of gay community, fatally stabbed 32X, @ his apt, Detroit, 21 August '87, *re-opened, fingerprint*

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June 21 2024

Homicide victims, missing people with unsolved cases honored at Detroit Police memorial

The second annual Detroit Police Never Forgotten memorial service was held to honor the victims of unsolved homicides in Detroit or who went missing.

www.detroitnews.com

''Detroit — Although it's been almost 37 years since Edward Sayers was fatally stabbed 32 times inside his Detroit apartment, his younger sisters still hold out hope that police will find the killer.

Beth Krebs said she is encouraged that Detroit Police cold case investigators have reopened the Aug. 21, 1987 killing that happened in the four-unit apartment building at the corner of Greiner and Pelkey near Gratiot on the city's east side.

"The police are on the case, and we've been continuing to follow up on it ourselves for all these years," Krebs said. "Our brother was a good person. He came from a big family, and we all miss him dearly."

2022

35 years since Detroit man’s murder, family pushes police for closure

The 4-unit apartment building on the corner of Greiner and Pelkey on Detroit’s east side hasn’t been lived in for more than a decade.

www.clickondetroit.com

“The landlord met me there and as he was fumbling with keys, the door just opened,” Choinier said. “I walked in... the radio was on... and I looked around and you could see Ed’s body on the bed-- fully clothed, blood all over. He’d been slashed on his neck, back of the head, his hands.

“So he was fighting it off.”
Beth remembers the word police used to describe what happened.
“Police did say it was an overkill,” meaning, as Beth explained, there were so many wounds and so brutal. “So they feel it was someone that he did know.”
But who?
Perhaps it was the man who left a perfect clue behind when he left the apartment.

“I told the police-- there was a blood imprint in the bathroom sink,” Choinier said.''