Deborah Williams, a 28‑year‑old Black woman from Los Angeles, was found dead on November 16, 1992, in a stairwell leading down to a boiler room at the 97th Street School in the Vermont‑Vista neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Her body was discovered late that night in a secluded area and the manner of death was ruled homicide; investigators later determined strangulation as the cause.

Early investigative work into Williams’s death became entangled with the wrongful conviction of David Allen Jones, who had confessed under duress but had no substantial physical evidence linking him to these crimes. In 2004 DNA testing linked Chester Dewayne Turner to biological material found on or near Williams’s body and to three other victims. Turner was later charged and in June 2014 convicted of Williams’s murder and three others; he was sentenced to death on June 26, 2014 and is the sole convicted perpetrator in her case.

Are there any readers who knew Deborah Williams or who have information about her life or movements in South Los Angeles in 1992?