Exie LaFaye Wilson, a 20-year-old woman from Los Angeles, was murdered on June 23, 1980. Her severed head was found wrapped in a T-shirt inside a small pine box in a Studio City alley. The coroner determined she died from a gunshot wound to the back of the head and that the head had been severed post-mortem, requiring 15 to 20 cuts to complete the decapitation.

Wilson was one of a series of victims linked to the so-called Sunset Strip Killers, Douglas Daniel Clark and Carol Mary Bundy. The pair targeted young women, including runaways and sex workers, in a string of killings from May to July 1980. Bundy later implicated Clark in Wilson’s murder during a confession, and Clark was convicted of six counts of first-degree murder, including Wilson’s, with multiple special circumstances and enhancements found true; he was sentenced to death. Bundy was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without parole.