Trina Carpenter, a 23-year-old African-American woman, was found dead on February 11, 1986, in San Diego. Her body was recovered in an area known for illicit activity, and the circumstances of her death matched patterns seen in a series of murders in the region during the mid-1980s. Many victims in that series were marginalized women, often lured into vehicles, assaulted, and killed by strangulation or blunt force trauma before being dumped in public or secluded locations.

A dedicated task force investigated the San Diego serial murders and the cases drew national attention, but no definitive arrest has been announced for Carpenter’s killing. Authorities later determined the cases involved multiple unrelated offenders rather than a single perpetrator. The death of Trina Carpenter remains officially unsolved.

Did anyone who knew Trina or who was in that part of San Diego in early 1986 see or hear anything that might help her case?