Linda Ann Ortega, a 37-year-old Hispanic woman, was found dead on April 29, 1988, in the hills near Franklin Street in Lake Elsinore, California. Her body was located west of Interstate 15 and north of Railroad Canyon Road. She had been stabbed in the heart and showed signs of mutilation; toxicology found high levels of alcohol and cocaine. Ortega worked part-time in fast food and had a criminal record involving drugs and prostitution.

Investigators noted similarities between Ortega’s killing and several other unsolved Riverside County homicides of vulnerable women found in remote or industrial areas, often naked and badly injured. Because of those similarities, Ortega’s death has been linked by law enforcement and crime historians to William Lester Bill Suff, the so-called Riverside Prostitute or Lake Elsinore Killer, who targeted women with histories of substance abuse or sex work during a violent series of murders in the region.

Did anyone who knew Linda or who worked in the Lake Elsinore area in 1988 see anything that could help close this case?