Kimberly Carol Fritz, an 18-year-old Caucasian woman, was found dead in a Port Hueneme motel room on May 29, 1977. Her death was one of three similar Ventura County homicides that year; the other victims, Velvet Ann Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez, 21, were also young women who were strangled. All three were sex workers who frequented local hotels, and the cases were long considered connected because of the matching circumstances and method.

DNA was collected at the scenes but the cases went cold for decades. In February 2023 detectives uploaded the preserved DNA to the national database and obtained a match to a man whose profile had entered the system after a later arrest. That identification led to an extradition to California and charges in 2024.

Are there readers who remember the Oxnard and Port Hueneme area in 1977 or who have any information about the victims’ routines or contacts from that time?