Anna Evardo, 24, was found dead inside a closet at her family home in Oakland, California, on December 23, 1984. She was discovered nude and bleeding from three small-caliber gunshot wounds. Ballistics later linked the bullets to those used in an earlier November 8 attack, when a 12-year-old girl survived being raped and shot, prompting investigators to treat Anna’s death as part of a series.

Neighbors reported seeing a black man leaving the Evardo home around the time of the murder, and latent fingerprints at the scene did not match any surviving family members. Those fingerprints and a subsequent identification in a lineup led police to a suspect who had recently been paroled and was connected by investigators to other violent incidents involving break-ins, sexual assault and small-caliber shootings.

What additional details do readers from Oakland in late 1984 recall about activity in the neighborhood or about Anna’s family that might help fill gaps in the timeline?