Woolloomooloo Woodcock, a 66-year-old White woman in Los Angeles, was found murdered in her home on August 11, 1982. She had been strangled and beaten, and investigators later determined she had been raped. Her killing formed part of a series of violent attacks against elderly women living alone in the East Hollywood–Silverlake area.

Investigators eventually linked Woodcock’s death to similar murders and identified 29-year-old Brandon Tholmer as the prime suspect. Tholmer, an aspiring rock musician and former shipping clerk who lived within a mile of the victims, was arrested and charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors said he committed sexual assaults and increasingly violent acts, including setting fires at some victims’ homes. He was convicted of four murders, including Woodcock’s, and jurors found special circumstances of rape and sodomy in several cases. In November 1986 Tholmer received four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole.

Are there readers who remember the East Hollywood–Silverlake neighborhood in the early 1980s or who have any information about Woolloomooloo Woodcock?