At Portland High School in Portland, Indiana, Garnet Ginn taught home economics. In late February of 1950, when she failed to show up for work, the police were called. A few doors down from the police station, Ginn rented a garage to store her 1949 Pontiac Firebird. The head of the school district and a neighbor looked into it. They discovered Garnet's lifeless body inside, hanging from a sewing machine belt that was fastened to a door handle. 

Her death was first declared to be a suicide, and the remains were given to a funeral home before the coroner could conduct a thorough investigation. The cause of death was later corrected to a homicide weeks after Ginn's family had the body exhumed and an autopsy done.

Nearly 70 years later, Garnet's case received an update from officials after a tip is received by police. According to the tipster, Garget had visited the police department in the weeks leading up to her death, with complaints of her optometrist stalking her.