Leah Leshefsky, a 63-year-old white woman, was found dead in Los Angeles on October 29, 1975. Her death was later determined to be the result of strangulation, and investigators noted strong similarities between her case and other unsolved killings of elderly women in the region during the 1970s.

Those parallels led authorities to consider that a single offender might be responsible for multiple attacks on elderly women who were assaulted and strangled in their homes. Leshefsky’s age and cause of death fit the pattern seen in this string of cases that troubled the area during that decade.

Does anyone who lived in Los Angeles in the mid-1970s recall details about Leah Leshefsky, her neighborhood, or activity in that area around late October 1975?