John Tomlin Goodman III, a 20-year-old from New York living in San Francisco, was murdered on October 5, 1978. He was last seen alive at a gay bar in the Tenderloin with David Allen Likens and an unidentified third man; witnesses said the three engaged in sexual activity in the bar’s restrooms before Goodman and Likens left together. Goodman’s body was found the next day in a sleeping bag in a ravine off Tunitas Creek near San Gregorio, California; he had been strangled.

Items belonging to Goodman, including a leather jacket and a portable radio, later turned up in the possession of Likens’ friend Danny Hepburn, who said Likens had given him a jacket after Hepburn’s own went missing. Goodman’s blue Volkswagen was found abandoned in Oakland on November 20, 1978. Likens, who had a prior second-degree murder conviction from 1974, was arrested in December 1978 and charged in Goodman’s killing along with two other murders; he died by suicide in custody on January 18, 1979, before trial.

Did anyone in the Tenderloin or San Gregorio area know Goodman or see him with Likens in October 1978?