Moses Alex John was 31 and living in Cudahy, Los Angeles County, when he was killed in the early hours of August 10, 1977. Born November 25, 1945, he and a fellow Indigenous man, Stanley Large Jr., met two visitors in a Los Angeles bar on the night of August 9. The visitors—identified as recently escaped convict James Allen Red Dog and Raymond Tapaha—were offered a place to stay. A third guest, Levi Aragon, was kidnapped and sexually assaulted as the attackers fled.

Red Dog and Tapaha were captured soon afterward. Red Dog pleaded guilty on April 10, 1978 to two counts of second-degree murder; Tapaha faced related murder and sexual-assault charges. No other suspects were identified.

Does anyone have memories of Moses Alex John or information about the night of August 9–10, 1977?