Letitia Fagot, 25, was found dead in her Walnut Creek home on March 19, 1975, after coworkers requested a welfare check when she failed to show up for work. Officers who entered the residence discovered her nude body; she had been strangled and suffered a severe blow to the head from a blunt object. Those injuries indicated a violent crime and launched an investigation into suspects and motive.

The case was later linked to Philip Joseph Hughes Jr., who was tried and convicted of multiple counts of first-degree murder, including Fagot’s. At trial jurors heard testimony about Hughes’ repeated violent acts and post-mortem sexual behavior; on October 14, 1980, a judge sentenced him to two concurrent life sentences to be served in state prison.

If anyone knew Letitia, her routines, or observed suspicious activity near her home in Walnut Creek around March 1975, contact investigators with information.