Rhonda Jackson was a 23-year-old woman from Pomona whose body was found in a dumpster in Pomona in late January 1987, reported in connection with Palomares Park. She had been left nude and died from ligature strangulation; a knotted section cut from the leg of a pair of pants was tied around her neck.

Evidence from Jackson’s body was preserved and later tested as DNA technology advanced. In March 2004 sexual-assault evidence from her case matched Ivan Jerome Hill. A May 2006 match from fingernail scrapings indicated she had struggled with or scratched her attacker. Hill was later prosecuted, convicted and sentenced in other murders; prosecutors presented Jackson’s killing as additional violent conduct during that capital trial. In May 2009 Hill pleaded guilty to Jackson’s murder and received life without parole in addition to an existing death sentence. No accomplice or second person has been identified in connection with her death.

Did anyone in Pomona at the time remember seeing Rhonda or noticing anything unusual near Palomares Park in late January 1987?