Rod Thorpe was 21 when he was murdered on April 12, 1974. He was last seen at David Allen Likens’ apartment in Los Angeles; his body was later found in a bathtub with multiple stab wounds and scratches to the chest and abdomen.

David Allen Likens was arrested and charged in Thorpe’s death, pleaded guilty at trial to second-degree murder, and was sentenced to five years to life. He served time in facilities that included San Quentin State Prison and the Sierra Conservation Center in Sonora, where he was described as a model inmate working as an office clerk and receiving commendations. Likens was later suspected in additional killings across California between 1974 and 1978, and he died by suicide in San Mateo County Jail on January 18, 1979; his suicide note denied those other murders while expressing hopelessness.

Are there readers who remember Thorpe or have information about his life or movements in Los Angeles in April 1974?