Ethel Sokoloff, a 68-year-old white woman, was found murdered in her Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles home on November 25, 1972. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled, and her body was discovered with bedding pulled over her face—a signature detail later linked to a series of attacks on elderly women living alone in Los Angeles during the 1970s.

Decades passed without an identified suspect. DNA from Sokoloff’s crime scene was matched to other unsolved cases in 2004. A further DNA comparison in 2008 linked the evidence to a convicted sex offender who was later arrested in March 2009 and charged in Sokoloff’s killing along with other cases that shared the same brutal modus operandi. Those additional cases involved elderly women who were raped and strangled, and investigators tied them together under the label Westside Rapist.

Does anyone have memories, information, or connections to the Mid-Wilshire neighborhood in 1972 that might shed more light on Ethel Sokoloff or her last known movements?