Gail Ficklin was a 24-year-old Black woman whose body was found August 15, 1985, in an alley on the 9800 block of Grandee Avenue in Willowbrook, Los Angeles. The cause of death was strangulation. Her murder occurred amid a string of killings in South Los Angeles during the mid-1980s that were later linked to multiple killers operating in the area.

The investigation into Ficklin’s death led to the arrest and conviction of Louis Craine, a 32-year-old unemployed construction worker, who was convicted of first-degree murder in Ficklin’s death and three other women. Craine’s defense noted significant intellectual limitations, including an IQ of 69 and a fourth-grade education; he was sentenced to death and later died in a prison hospital from an undisclosed ailment. Two of the murders Craine was convicted for had initially been attributed to the Southside Slayer, but authorities later determined victims had been targeted by at least two different killers.

Does anyone have information about Ficklin, her last known movements, or the Willowbrook neighborhood in 1985 that could shed light on this case?