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Stacy Ann Redican was 17 when she and a friend, 17-year-old Karen Chipman Twiggs, were lured from a Sacramento mall on April 24, 1980. The girls were offered marijuana and got into a van driven by Charlene Gallego, where Charlene’s husband, Gerald Armond Gallego, was armed with a .357 Magnum. Both girls were repeatedly sexually assaulted in the back of the van and then taken to remote Limerick Canyon, Nevada, where Gerald bludgeoned them to death with a hammer.

Their bodies were found in shallow graves by picnickers on July 27, 1980; both had hands bound with macrame rope and autopsies showed death from multiple blows to the head. Investigation tied the murders to the Gallegos as part of a wider kidnapping and murder spree. Charlene later testified against Gerald in exchange for a plea; Gerald Gallego was convicted and sentenced to death in Nevada, and Charlene was sentenced to prison.

Does anyone have memories of Stacy, Karen, or details from the Sacramento or Pershing County investigations that could shed more light on their last movements?