Ervin Tip Roeder, a prominent Los Angeles divorce attorney, was killed on June 10, 1981, in Beverly Hills. He was 60. Roeder was gunned down in the lobby of his estranged wife Jenny Maxwell’s Beverly Hills condominium; Maxwell was also shot to death there. Witnesses heard multiple gunshots and saw Roeder on his hands and knees, screaming for help after being shot in the stomach. Maxwell died of gunshot wounds to the head.

Early reports described the episode as a botched robbery, but investigators later treated the killings as likely premeditated. Reporting and later inquiries linked Roeder to criminal figures and described him as a mobbed-up attorney, a detail that fed theories the slayings were orchestrated. Police files reportedly indicated the case had been solved weeks after the murders, though that information was not made public. A recent book investigating Maxwell’s death concludes the killings were planned and tied to organized crime. No arrests have been announced and the case remains officially unsolved.

Does anyone have memories or information about Roeder or Maxwell in Beverly Hills around June 1981 that could shed light on their last days?