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Michele MacDonald
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Scottsdale
State: Arizona
County: Maricopa County
Date of birth: December 1, 1954
Date of death: January 6, 1995
Age: 40
Gender: Female
Race: Caucasian/White
Cause of death: Gun Firearm
Anniversary month: January
LEA: Phoenix Police Department, Phoenix, Arizona
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February 28, 2022 | By Kaitlynn Sorondo This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and a University of North Florida Journalism class. Michele MacDonald always carried a big black planner full of appointments, reminders, and special dates. Her daughter, Audrey Grey, says that was part of what made her an adult. “I wanted to be just like her, so when she got me my own planner, it felt like she was passing on this way of being responsible,” she said. “I was honored and proud that she believed in me in that way.” On a mother-daughter dinner date at Pizza Hut in December of 1994, Michele gave young Audrey the new 1995 planner insert and they each had a Hawaiian personal-pan pizza. The first entry in Audrey’s planner was her mother’s death. Audrey was 10 years old at the time and the murder has never been solved. Michele was born on December 1, 1954, in Florida and was the second oldest of five... Read More
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