Monique Michelle Hilton was a 16-year-old African American girl from Illinois who was murdered on May 24, 1984. While hitchhiking on Santa Monica Boulevard she encountered 24-year-old Mauricio Rodriguez Silva, who drove her into the Mojave Desert east of Palmdale and shot her twice with a sawed-off shotgun; her body was found near the Palmdale Regional Airport.

Silva had been paroled weeks earlier after serving time for a 1978 manslaughter of another 16-year-old. In the days around Monique’s killing he also murdered 16-year-old Walter P. Sanders near Pearblossom and, four days later, his 17-year-old half-sister Martha Kitzler in her Hollywood apartment. Silva turned himself in on May 28, 1984, confessed, and authorities recovered a loaded sawed-off shotgun and a knife from his vehicle. He was charged, tried in Los Angeles, convicted of the three murders and later sentenced to death.

Does anyone have memories or information about Monique’s last known movements in Hollywood or sightings along Santa Monica Boulevard that could add detail to the timeline?