Maria Apodaca was an 18-year-old Hispanic female from Sacramento whose remains were found on March 19, 1987, buried in the yard of a residence in Sacramento’s Oak Park neighborhood. Her body was discovered wrapped in bedding, a detail later noted as common among several victims linked to the same suspect. Identification established she had been a teenage sex worker; reports say her remains were in an advanced state of decomposition that prevented a precise determination of cause of death.

The property where Apodaca was found had been occupied by Morris Solomon Jr., a handyman who lived there until November 1986. Investigators tied her death to a pattern involving other young women with similar post-mortem treatment, and Solomon was arrested April 22, 1987. He was convicted of six murders, including Apodaca’s, and was sentenced to death on September 16, 1992. The case is often cited as part of a broader pattern of violence against vulnerable women in Sacramento during the mid-1980s.

If anyone knew Maria, her routines, or had contact with occupants of that Oak Park property in 1986–1987, what can be shared?