Cherie Michelle Payseur, 24, was murdered on April 27, 1991, in Riverside County, California. Born November 7, 1966, in Fontana, she had attended the California School for the Deaf in Riverside. Never married and the mother of one child, she supported herself intermittently working as a cleaning woman and struggled with substance abuse that put her in vulnerable circumstances.

Her death was later linked to William Lester Suff, known as the Riverside Prostitute Killer or Lake Elsinore Killer, whose crimes against women in Riverside County spanned 1986 to 1991. Payseur’s body was found in Riverside and investigators connected her murder to that broader pattern of killings. Suff was arrested in January 1992 and later convicted and sentenced to death.

Anyone who knew Cherie, her movements around April 1991, or has information about her life and the circumstances that led to her being vulnerable is asked to share what they know.