Anita Elizabeth Fagiani Andrews, a 51-year-old single mother, was brutally murdered on July 10, 1974, in Napa, California. Anita co-owned Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge with her sister Muriel and also worked as a secretary at Napa State Hospital. On the night she was killed she was last seen tending the bar near closing with a stranger still in the establishment; the next morning Muriel found her body in a pool of blood on the floor.

The assault was severe: Anita had been raped, her clothes torn, her throat slashed and she suffered multiple stab wounds inflicted with a screwdriver. Her Cadillac Eldorado was missing. Investigators recovered several scene clues, including a cigarette butt in an ashtray, a partial bloody fingerprint on a rear staircase, and fingerprints on a bottle and the open cash register.

Decades later, DNA extracted from the 1974 evidence was entered into CODIS and matched Roy Allan Melanson. A special Napa County grand jury indicted Melanson; he was extradited to Napa, tried and found guilty of first-degree murder. Does anyone have memories of Fagiani’s Cocktail Lounge or Anita’s family that could add context to this case?