Christina Tina Leal was 23 and Hispanic when she was murdered in Riverside County, California, on December 13, 1989. Her death is described as part of a series of killings in Riverside County between 1986 and 1991 attributed to William Lester Suff, who became known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer and the Lake Elsinore Killer.

Victims in that series were often found in remote or roadside locations and subjected to extreme violence including strangulation, blunt force trauma, and post-mortem mutilation. Specific public details about the condition in which Tina Leal’s body was discovered have not been widely published, but she is listed among the victims linked to Suff.

Suff had an earlier conviction in Texas in 1974 for the murder of his two-month-old daughter and was later connected to multiple Riverside County homicides. If anyone knew Tina Leal or has information about her life or death, please come forward.