Denice Roberts, a 53-year-old Black woman, was found dead on October 13, 2010, in her home on the 12600 block of South Hoover Street in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her husband discovered her body about 3:30 p.m. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office recorded that she had been found bound and gagged with bruising on her neck, consistent with strangulation. A security hold was placed on the investigation and few details were released publicly at the time.

Subsequent investigative work linked the death to a man who lived two houses away from Roberts. That person was arrested on October 23, 2010, after attempting to use a stolen ATM card from another victim and was charged in connection with multiple home invasion robberies and murders over a roughly two-month span. If anyone knew Denice Roberts, lived in Harbor Gateway in 2010, or has information about these crimes, please come forward to the Los Angeles Police Department.