In late May 1981 the Atlanta area was alarmed by a string of similar killings. The second known victim was 22-year-old Giselle Yvonne Clardy, assistant manager at Cherry Hill Apartments in Brookhaven, Georgia. On May 29, 1981, she was found face down in a bathtub in a vacant unit at the complex after failing to report to work. She had been strangled, and investigators said there was evidence of sexual assault.

Police linked her death to the recent murder of 22-year-old Louise DalSanto and to earlier attacks in which a man posed as a maintenance worker or a floral delivery person to gain access to women. Witnesses provided descriptions that produced a composite sketch, and a mechanic at the complex reported seeing a man talking with Giselle shortly before her death. On July 14, 1981, 32-year-old James Samuel Walraven was arrested; a witness identified him from the sketch and an inmate later testified Walraven confessed. He was convicted at trial in November 1981 and initially sentenced to death; that sentence was later overturned and he was retried and given life in prison in 1983.

Does anyone have memories of the Cherry Hill complex or of Giselle’s life and work there that could shed light on what happened?