Elissa Naomi Keller, 38, was found dead in her East San Diego apartment on the evening of May 21, 1990. Her daughter discovered her on the bedroom floor with a blanket over her torso; the front door’s chain was off and the deadbolt unlatched. The medical examiner estimated death six to twelve hours earlier, placing the attack in daylight on May 21.

Keller was clad only in a tank-top; her underwear was bloody and turned inside-out. She had nine deep, closely clustered stab wounds to the chest, defensive cuts, facial bruising and petechiae consistent with punching and choking prior to the fatal knife wounds. Entry appeared to have been through a partially open window. Investigators linked Nike Air-Jordan prints on the sill to prints at another Clairemont murder, and bloody honeycomb-patterned glove smears matched gloves later recovered from a suspect’s car and girlfriend’s closet. A distinctive gold-nugget ring belonging to Keller was reported missing and was later seen on 23-year-old Cleophus Prince Jr.

Prince became the prime suspect as detectives tied Keller’s killing to five other daylight knife murders of White women in San Diego during 1990. He was arrested in March 1991, convicted by a jury in July 1993 and sentenced to death in November 1993; no one else has been charged in Keller’s homicide. Did anyone who knew Elissa or lived in Clairemont in 1990 notice unusual visitors, strangers in the stairwells, or jewelry being shown around after May 1, 1990?