Rhonda Lee Martin Scheffler was 17 when she and a friend, Kippi Vaught, were abducted from a Sacramento shopping mall parking lot on September 11, 1978. Their bodies were found two days later in a rural area outside Sacramento. Both girls had suffered severe trauma; Rhonda had been raped and died clutching a piece of cord similar to that used to bind Kippi’s hands. The official cause of death for both was gunshot wounds to the head.

Investigators later linked Rhonda’s murder to a series of abductions and killings between 1978 and 1980 carried out by Gerald Armond Gallego and his accomplice Charlene Gallego. Reports say the couple targeted mostly teenage girls, and that Gerald Gallego repeatedly raped victims before killing them. Charlene Gallego cooperated with authorities and testified against Gerald.

Did anyone who knew Rhonda or Kippi notice anything unusual at the shopping mall that day, or recall seeing them there on September 11, 1978?