Adrienne Askew was 56 when her body was found in her Claremont apartment on June 12, 1986. She had been raped and strangled; the attack matched a pattern seen in a string of assaults on elderly women across Southern California. Adrienne had lived in the same unit where her mother, 85-year-old Isabel Askew, had been found dead two years earlier; Isabel’s body was recovered in a vineyard near Ontario International Airport but decomposition prevented a cause of death from being determined.

Investigators suspected a possible connection between the two deaths given the similarities to other unsolved attacks on older women living alone. Years later cold-case detectives reopened the files and DNA evidence linked a suspect to Adrienne’s murder and several other killings.

Does anyone have information about Adrienne’s life in Claremont or the neighborhood in the mid-1980s that could help fill gaps in the timeline?