Desarae Ellemae Jones, a 29-year-old African American woman, was found murdered on May 16, 1993, near a vacant residence in the Vermont-Slauson neighborhood of Los Angeles. Her body was discovered partially nude on the 6800 block of Estrella Avenue and showed clear signs of strangulation. That stretch of South Los Angeles had become known at the time for a string of violent crimes against women.

Jones had worked at a nursing home and lived in the Los Angeles area. Her death initially received little media attention but later proved crucial when DNA evidence linked her to Chester Dewayne Turner, a suspect tied to a series of murders in the region. Turner was identified as responsible for multiple killings of women found in similar circumstances along a narrow corridor of South Los Angeles.

Jones’s case underscores patterns of violence in the area and the neglect often faced by marginalized victims. If anyone knew Desarae, her routines, or remembers anything from that neighborhood around May 1993, please share what can help fill in the remaining gaps.