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Anita Fishman Breier, a 31-year-old white woman originally from New York, was found murdered in Los Angeles on January 20, 1989. At the time she lived in Pasadena and was struggling with drug addiction and homelessness. Her body was located in an alley near the 9800 block of South Figueroa Street in the Vermont Vista neighborhood, behind a wood panel door leaning against a detached garage. The cause of death was manual strangulation.

Investigators later connected her killing to a series of similar murders in the same area. DNA recovered from the crime scene matched Chester Dewayne Turner, who was linked to multiple Los Angeles homicides from 1987 to 1998 and ultimately convicted of murdering ten women and one viable fetus. Turner’s victims, including Breier, were described as predominantly vulnerable women—many experiencing homelessness, drug addiction, or mental illness—and were found in high-crime areas, sexually assaulted and strangled.

Did anyone who knew Anita in Pasadena or the Vermont Vista area around 1989 see or hear anything that could still help clarify what happened that night?