Andrea Tripplett, a 29-year-old African American woman from Los Angeles, was found dead behind an abandoned house two blocks from her home on April 2, 1993. She was about five months pregnant; the fetus weighed 305 grams and was not considered viable under California law at the time. Tripplett’s body showed signs consistent with sexual violence—her skirt was pushed up and she was unclothed below the waist—and the cause of death was manual strangulation.

Tripplett was last seen the same day getting into a small brown car with a Black man. Her killing became part of a string of South Los Angeles murders from the late 1980s into the 1990s that involved vulnerable women, many of whom were African American, homeless, or involved in sex work; several victims were found partially nude and had been strangled.

Investigators later matched DNA from Tripplett and other victims to Chester Dewayne Turner, already serving an eight-year sentence for a 2002 rape; Turner was linked to 14 murders and was convicted and sentenced to death. The probe also revealed that David Allen Jones had been wrongfully convicted for three murders later attributed to Turner; Jones, who was mentally disabled, had been coerced into confessions and was exonerated after DNA connected the crimes to Turner.

Does anyone have information about Andrea’s last known movements or the small brown car she was seen entering?