Sheryl Okoro was 26 when she was killed in 1984 and is listed among the victims of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. She had a troubled youth marked by sexual abuse and multiple attempts to escape her circumstances, and became a mother at 16. While living in San Francisco’s Pink Palace apartment complex she met Lake, who offered her work on a pot farm; she left in mid-1984 and was never seen alive again.

Investigators later recovered evidence tying Okoro to Lake and Ng’s crimes. Nude photographs of Okoro were found buried with Lake’s 250-page diary, and an 11-page letter she had written describing her past and how she met Lake was also recovered at the bunker site in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Authorities estimated the pair’s total number of victims could have been as high as 25.

Lake died in custody in June 1985 after swallowing cyanide; Ng fled to Canada, was later returned to California, and was convicted in 1999 of multiple murders. Okoro was named at Ng’s trial as one of the uncharged decedents. Does anyone have memories of Okoro or information about her time at the Pink Palace that could help fill in the gaps of her final months?