Lula Mae Farley, 71, was fatally shot on the evening of June 2, 1990, in Ontario, California. She and her 65-year-old husband, Herbert Farley, were collecting aluminum cans behind a neighborhood supermarket when both were confronted and shot. Lula Mae was left mortally wounded in the alley; Herbert Farley was forced into the couple’s pickup and driven about 15 miles west to Rubidoux in Riverside County, where his body was found shortly afterward.

Investigators focused briefly on a 19-year-old local man, Steven Valdez, after a witness tentatively placed him at the Ontario scene; he was booked but later released when that eyewitness recanted and no physical evidence tied him to the killings. Decades later advances in ballistics and DNA linked the Farley homicides to a pattern attributed to Alfredo Rolando Prieto. Authorities named Prieto the prime suspect after matching his semi-automatic pistol to bullet fragments and placing him in the area on the night of the murders. No arrest was made in Ontario or Rubidoux and the local homicide counts remain technically open.

If anyone knew the Farleys, saw them that evening, or has information about activity behind the supermarket or along the route to Rubidoux, please share what is known.