Maye Scialesi, a 72-year-old white woman, was found dead in Los Angeles on November 7, 1974. Investigators assessing similar cases believe the offender entered her apartment through a bathroom window, sexually assaulted her, and killed her by strangulation or suffocation; her face was reportedly covered with a blanket or pillow, matching the pattern seen in other attacks on elderly women living alone.

No arrest was made specifically in connection with Scialesi’s death at the time. Decades later she was identified as a suspected victim of John Floyd Thomas Jr. after DNA links and Thomas’s own admissions tied him to a number of cold cases from that era. Authorities did not pursue separate charges in her case during the prosecutions that followed.

Are there any neighbors, family members, or researchers with memories or records from that part of Los Angeles in 1974 who can add detail about Maye Scialesi or her apartment building?