Brenda Bries, a 39-year-old white woman, was found dead on April 6, 1998, in Los Angeles. Her body was discovered inside a portable toilet near South Gladys Avenue and 5th Street, slumped forward with a fabric cord intertwined with her bra tightly wound around her neck. Her pants were pulled down to her knees and her shirt wrapped around her neck; the scene showed signs of a struggle and the injuries indicated ligature strangulation.

Bries was later linked by DNA to Chester Dewayne Turner, who was identified through DNA matches from multiple crime scenes. Turner, born in 1966, was charged with the murders of ten women, including Bries, and the death of one unborn child. Most victims were sexually assaulted and strangled, often left partially nude in secluded or abandoned locations in South Los Angeles along the Figueroa Corridor.

Bries’s case underscores how advances in forensic DNA and renewed cold-case work can connect previously unsolved killings. Does anyone have information about Bries’s life or movements in early 1998 that could add context to what happened that spring?