Sheila Rae Burris, 30, was found dead in a Los Angeles alley on November 18, 1984. The autopsy determined she had been stabbed and strangled. Her killing became one of a string of Southside slayings that prompted a special task force and drew media attention under the label Southside Slayer.

In January 1988 authorities charged 31-year-old Louis Craine, then in custody on other murder suspicions, with Burris’s death. He was tried on multiple murder counts beginning in 1989; the jury convicted him of four other killings and sentenced him to death, but acquitted him of Sheila Burris’s murder. No one was convicted for her killing, leaving the case officially unsolved.

Are there readers who remember Sheila or who have information about her life or movements in 1984 that could help investigators?