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Kimberley Martin was a 17-year-old Caucasian female who was murdered on December 13, 1977. She had been working as a prostitute for an outcall service and was called to an empty apartment at 1950 Tamarind in Hollywood. Kimberley was killed in that apartment and her body was later dumped at 2006 N. Alvarado in Echo Park.

Her death was one of the killings attributed to the pair known as the Hillside Stranglers, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono. The two are described as having carried out a series of abductions, sexual assaults, torture and murders in Los Angeles between October 1977 and February 1978; together they killed 10 females and Bianchi is reported to have committed two additional murders on his own. The victims ranged in age from 12 to 28.

Both men were later apprehended and convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.

Did anyone who knew Kimberley or who lived near Tamarind or Alvarado at the time notice anything that could help fill gaps in the timeline of that night?