Georgia Mae Thomas, 43, was found dead in an alley in South Central Los Angeles on December 28, 2000. She was lying on her back wearing a brown leather jacket, jeans, and a blue thermal shirt. Her cause of death was recorded as two gunshot wounds to the left side of her chest and blunt-force trauma to the head.

Investigators later linked Thomas’s killing to Lonnie David Franklin Jr., known as the Grim Sleeper. During the penalty phase of his trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the gun used in Thomas’s murder was recovered from Franklin’s home and that his fingerprint was on a magazine for that gun. Thomas’s body being left in an industrial area matched the offender’s pattern of targeting vulnerable women and disposing of their bodies in secluded locations.

Anyone who knew Georgia Mae Thomas or has information about her death is asked to come forward.