Roxanne Bates, a 31-year-old African American woman from Montclair, California, was found murdered in Chino in November 1993. Her body showed she had been strangled with a cord or cloth. At the time she was known to be involved in sex work in the Los Angeles area and had prior convictions for prostitution in 1991 and again in 1993.

Her death was later linked to a series of killings attributed to Ivan Jerome Hill, the so-called 60 Freeway Killer, who targeted women—many of them sex workers—and left bodies along California State Route 60. The killings affecting African American women occurred between 1986 and 1994; Hill was apprehended in 2003 after DNA connected him to the crimes and was convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder.

Anyone who knew Roxanne, her whereabouts in late 1993, or has information about contacts she may have had is asked to come forward.