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Dolores Ann Dolly Cepeda was a 12-year-old girl murdered on November 13, 1977. She and a friend, 14-year-old Sonja Johnson, had gone to a mall in Eagle Rock, California. A witness later reported seeing the girls get off a bus and approach a large two-tone sedan to speak with someone at the passenger side. Their bodies were found one week later in Elysian Park near Dodger Stadium.

Dolores was one of the victims of the Hillside Stranglers, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, who carried out a series of kidnappings, sexual assaults, torture, and murders in Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978. Investigators concluded two perpetrators were working together; the pair used tactics including posing as police officers to lure victims into a vehicle. Buono and Bianchi were eventually apprehended and convicted in connection with the killings.

Does anyone have memories of Dolores, Sonja, or sightings around Eagle Rock and Elysian Park in November 1977 that could add context or details?