Fifteen-year-old Jodie Samuels was attacked on the morning of May 17, 1984, on or near 23rd Street and Longwood in Los Angeles. A neighbor heard her screaming and then two gunshots; when he opened his door he saw a light-complexioned man getting into an older Ford Mustang, described as a 1964 or 1965 model, dark in color with primer spots. Jodie’s white purse was missing, and she survived for about three days before dying of her injuries around May 20, 1984.

About an hour earlier a woman named Willa Gerber was shot while jogging; ballistics testing linked a bullet recovered from Gerber’s case with one removed from Jodie, indicating the same firearm was used. Investigators later focused on brothers Kevin and Reginald Haley during a broader inquiry into burglaries, robberies, sexual assaults and killings. Kevin Haley was identified by Gerber as the shooter in her attack, and the Haleys were tied to many violent crimes, but the eyewitness who saw the fleeing man after Jodie’s shooting could not positively identify Kevin in a lineup.

Prosecutors used details of Jodie’s killing during the penalty phase of Kevin Haley’s trial in another murder, and contemporaneous reporting said prosecutors planned a separate trial for Jodie’s murder. There is no established conviction specifically linking Kevin Haley to Jodie’s death in the available record. Does anyone have information about the Mustang or the man seen fleeing that morning?