Rhonda Strang was 24 when she was murdered in October 1984 while babysitting a three-year-old child, Amber Fisher; both were killed. Their deaths were linked to a series of killings in San Diego County between 1979 and 1984 carried out by David Allen Lucas, who became known as the perpetrator of the Throat-Slash Murders because his victims’ throats were slashed.

Lucas was convicted of multiple murders, including Suzanne Jacobs and her three-year-old son, Colin, and Anne Catherine Swanke. The case involving Lucas was lengthy and legally complex; his trial stretched into one of the longest in San Diego history, and he was sentenced to death in 1989. Another man, John Massingale, was initially arrested in the 1979 Jacobs murders, later recanted a confession he said was coerced, and was released and declared factually innocent.

The murder of Strang and Amber Fisher was noted as particularly harrowing because Strang had a connection to Lucas through her brother, who was a friend and employee of Lucas. Does anyone have information about Rhonda Strang, Amber Fisher, or the events of October 1984 that could help clarify what happened that night?