Regina Nadine Washington, a 27-year-old Black woman, was found murdered on September 23, 1989, in Los Angeles. Her body was discovered inside a detached garage of a vacant home on the 8800 block of South Figueroa Street in the Vermont Vista neighborhood. She was six months pregnant at the time; the cause of death was strangulation, and the death of her unborn child, referred to as Baby Washington, was also ruled a homicide.

Years later DNA evidence linked her killing to Chester Dewayne Turner, who was identified in connection with multiple unsolved murders across a corridor near Figueroa Street. Turner’s DNA, entered after a 2002 arrest, matched evidence from several cold cases. In 2007 he was convicted of ten murders, including Regina Washington’s, though a separate conviction for the death of her unborn child was later overturned in 2022 on legal grounds about fetal viability. The murder conviction for Regina Washington remained upheld.

Does anyone have information about Regina Washington’s life in the Vermont Vista area or remembers the vacant property on the 8800 block of South Figueroa Street around 1989?