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Leo Hildebrand was a 52-year-old elementary school teacher found beaten and strangled in his Alhambra home on November 5, 1989. He was one of five gay men murdered between July 1986 and November 1989 by Juan Chavez, who targeted men at known meeting spots, then went to their homes, robbed them and killed them. The other victims named in the series are Alfred Rowswell, Ruben Panis, Donald Kleeman and Michael Allen Cates.

Chavez was already serving time in Folsom State Prison on a kidnapping and robbery conviction when he was charged with these murders in November 1994. He was later convicted of five counts of murder and, at age 33 at sentencing, received five life terms without the possibility of parole.

Does anyone have memories of Hildebrand, where he worked or spent time in Alhambra that could add to the timeline before November 5, 1989?