Elandra Joyce Bunn, a 33-year-old African-American mother from Los Angeles, was found dead on June 5, 1987, in an alley along the Figueroa corridor in South Los Angeles. An 11-year-old boy discovered her body; she had been left naked among trash. Family and friends remembered her as loving and kind.

The autopsy described extensive trauma: two battered and bloody eyes, abrasions and lacerations to the head, bruises on the neck consistent with strangulation, and additional bruises and lacerations across her legs and torso. The deputy county medical examiner testified the neck had likely been wrenched violently, possibly by shaking her head back and forth during the assault.

Decades later the case was reopened by the Los Angeles Police Department Cold Case Unit. Through DNA evidence and witness testimony authorities linked the murder to Chester Dewayne Turner. Turner was tried and convicted in 2007 for Bunn’s murder alongside three other African-American women who had been strangled in South Los Angeles.

Did anyone who knew Elandra or who lived near the Figueroa corridor in 1987 notice anything unusual that summer?