Maureen Patricia Field was 19 when she was killed on November 14, 1972, in Contra Costa County, California. She had finished a shift at Kmart and was waiting for her father to pick her up when Philip Joseph Hughes Jr., later called the East Bay Strangler, offered her a ride. Her father arrived after she had already left; he was not initially alarmed. Two days later the family received an anonymous phone call from a man saying he had killed their daughter and would not call again.

Maureen’s badly decomposed body was found along Morgan Territory Road on February 15, 1973. Hughes Jr. was linked to her murder; he was convicted of Maureen Field’s murder on October 14, 1980, and on November 25, 1980 received two concurrent life sentences. The judge described him as a dangerous man to society.

Does anyone have memories of that area or knew Maureen or her family and can share information that might shed light on her final hours?