On November 17, 1984, 42-year-old Ursula Houser was found shot twice in the back and left in an alley near Highland Avenue and D Street in San Bernardino, California. Her body had been dragged about 35 feet to a more concealed spot, and the offender sexually assaulted her corpse. The weapon used was a .357 magnum revolver.

Investigators linked her murder to the killing of 25-year-old Sonia Reed a day earlier; Reed had also been shot with a .357 magnum and sexually assaulted. A suspect, 25-year-old security guard Horace Edward Kelly, was arrested on November 25, 1984, after an unrelated shooting in Riverside in which 11-year-old Daniel Osentkowski was killed trying to prevent an abduction. A recently fired .357 magnum was recovered from Kelly’s vehicle and ballistics matched bullets from Houser’s and Reed’s murders to that gun.

Kelly was charged with multiple counts including murder and rape; his 1986 conviction and death sentence followed. Did anyone in the San Bernardino area at that time have information about Ursula’s movements or encounters in mid-November 1984?