Joyce Lucille Brown Nelson, a 60-year-old white woman, was beaten to death in her Monterey Park home on the night of July 6, 1985. She was asleep on her couch when Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, forced entry, assaulted her and then ransacked the house for valuables.

Family members had warned Nelson to lock doors and windows because of the ongoing threat from the Night Stalker; she told her son she did not want to live like a prisoner and declined to do so. Her murder was one of several violent attacks committed by Ramirez across California that summer, and it heightened fear in the community while investigators worked the case.

Ramirez was later arrested and convicted of multiple murders, including Nelson’s, and was sentenced to death; he died in June 2013. Did anyone in Monterey Park know Joyce Nelson or have details about her life that could add to the record?