Mildred Mae Williams Beasley, a 45-year-old Black woman, was found murdered on November 6, 1996, in Los Angeles, California. Her body was discovered partially nude and strangled among bushes near the 110 Freeway. Originally from Mississippi, she had moved to California from Texas about eight weeks before her death. Married to Willard Beasley Sr., she was described as a homemaker and left behind several children, including a teenage son. She had been on her way to visit friends when she was killed.

Her murder was later linked by DNA to Chester DeWayne Turner, a man connected to numerous killings of women in Los Angeles between 1987 and 1998. Mildred’s case fits a pattern in which victims were found strangled and partially nude in neglected areas of the city. Few other personal details about her movements that day are known.

Did anyone who knew Mildred or her circle in late 1996 see her leaving for those visits or notice anything unusual around the 110 Freeway that day?