Jillette Leonora Mills, 35, was one of several women murdered during a violent California crime spree in spring 1984. On April 10 she and her roommate, 33-year-old Susan Knoll, were found strangled and hidden in a closet in their Culver City apartment. The slayings were part of a string of attacks that left at least five women dead over a matter of days.

Investigators identified 28-year-old Dean Phillip Carter as the man responsible for Mills’s murder. Carter’s three-week spree beginning in late March 1984 included rape, robbery, and murder; he targeted women he had met or befriended and used strangulation as his primary method. Evidence tying him to the crimes included semen, fingerprints, a bloody palm print, and surveillance footage showing him withdrawing money from a victim’s account. Carter was arrested May 15, 1984, and later convicted in multiple murders.

Did anyone in Culver City at the time remember Mills or Knoll, or have information about the neighborhood in April 1984?