Sherry Ann Latham, 37, was found murdered on July 4, 1991, in light brush about 15 feet east of Grape Street near a roadside parallel to Interstate 15, just south of Railroad Canyon Road in Lake Elsinore, Riverside County. Picnickers discovered her body. Latham, who was known to be involved in sex work and to struggle with drug addiction, had been strangled.

Her hand was wrapped around nearby branches, suggesting she may have still been alive and tried to crawl away before dying. Feline hairs were found on her body although she did not own a cat, prompting investigators to note the killer might have had one. Latham is one of the victims attributed to William Lester Suff, who targeted vulnerable women in Riverside County between 1989 and 1991; Suff was arrested in January 1992, convicted in 1995 of multiple first-degree murders including Latham’s, and sentenced to death.

Did anyone in the Lake Elsinore area remember seeing Sherry or have information about her activities around early July 1991?