Jimmie White Buffalo, a 34-year-old Native American man, was found dead on November 17, 1978, in Los Angeles. His body was discovered in a parking lot with multiple stab wounds to the upper torso from a long-bladed knife. The killing matched a series of attacks that terrorized the Skid Row area that fall and made White Buffalo the ninth known victim linked to the Skid Row Stabber.

The Skid Row Stabber cases involved victims, many homeless or transient men, attacked within about a fifteen-block area; some scenes reportedly included messages scrawled in blood and signs described as ritualistic or symbolic. Bobby Joe Maxwell was later arrested and convicted in 1984 on two counts of murder and given life without parole, but that conviction was overturned in 2010 amid questions about evidence, including a discredited jailhouse informant. The extent of Maxwell’s involvement in White Buffalo’s death remains uncertain.

Are there readers who knew Jimmie White Buffalo or who have information about the Skid Row Stabber investigations that could shed light on this case?