Yvonne Coleman was a 15-year-old girl found murdered in a park in Inglewood, California, on January 22, 1986. Forensic testing showed she had been sexually assaulted and strangled. Her case remained unsolved for many years.

Advances in DNA technology later linked the murder to Michael Hughes, a convicted serial killer known as the Southside Slayer. Prosecutors charged Hughes with sexually assaulting and strangling multiple victims from 1986 to 1993, and he was tried and found guilty in Coleman’s murder along with the killings of Verna Williams and Deborah Jackson. The jury concluded Coleman’s murder occurred during a rape and sodomy; Hughes was sentenced to death in addition to an earlier life sentence.

Does anyone have information about Coleman’s last known movements or who she spent time with in Inglewood prior to January 22, 1986?