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.”