Eloise Payne murder featured on Cold Justice, Brutal stabbing death of Flint mom

'Cold Justice' features the violent, unexplained death of Flint mom

FLINT, MI — The unsolved killing of a Flint Sunday school teacher in 1991 is about to be featured on "Cold Justice," a nationally televised Oxygen Network series, and a show investigator says viewers could come up with a better understanding of who committed the violent murder.

Steve Spingola, a "Cold Justice," prosecutor and retired Milwaukee Police Department lieutenant detective, said Flint Police, some late Eloise Payne friends and family members discussed her case for the show scheduled to air at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8.

But not everyone who contacted program investigators cooperated, said Spingola, who partners with former prosecutor Kelly Siegler to investigate the case.

In a show promotion, Siegler tells viewers, "We need to try to find out who would have the mental capacity or the rage or the hatred to commit this kind of murder."

Payne was stabbed to death in her home on Lapeer Road near Barks Street on November 29, 1991, a home where she lived with her son, a teenager at her death.

It was the son of the 38-year-old woman who on the night of her death, called police, telling them he found a door ajar that he and his mother did not usually use while returning home.

Within, police found Payne's body. At the time, Flint homicide squad head said that while naming a suspect in the case, no arrest could be made immediately, according to Flint Journal files.