Diane Johnson, a 21-year-old Black woman, was found murdered on March 9, 1987, in Los Angeles. Her body was discovered in a roadway construction area near the 10000 block of South Grand Avenue in the Vermont Vista neighborhood, west of the Harbor Freeway. She was partially nude and appeared to have been left deliberately; two passing motorists spotted her and alerted authorities.

Investigators later linked Johnson’s killing to a series of murders attributed to Chester DeWayne Turner. Turner was charged and convicted in Johnson’s death along with nine other women; the victims were all women and many were Black, and the cases shared similarities in body locations and condition. Turner was sentenced to death in 2007.

Anyone who knew Diane, saw her in early March 1987, or has information about the locations where these victims were found is asked to come forward.