Marie Lovardi, an 82-year-old woman from San Jose, California, was found dead in her home in October 1987 after her great-grandson reported the house had been ransacked and that his great-grandmother was missing. Her body was discovered in a closet; investigators determined she had suffered blunt trauma, including a broken jaw and cheekbones, and that traumatic head and neck injuries caused her death. A box in which she kept cash was found empty.

Lovardi’s murder was linked to a series of daytime home invasions and killings of elderly women across Northern California. Authorities suspected Franklin Lynch, a 32-year-old ex-convict from Oakland, who was arrested in Los Angeles in October 1987. Investigators connected Lynch to multiple murders and robberies of elderly women who lived alone; prosecutors charged him with multiple counts including first-degree murder, and he was convicted in several cases.

Does anyone have memories of Marie, her neighborhood in San Jose in 1987, or information about the break-ins that might help fill gaps in the timeline?