Juan Maya was murdered in Phoenix, Arizona, in the early morning hours of a November day in 1981. According to testimony at the subsequent prosecutions, Maya picked up a 14-year-old hitchhiker, Martin Norton, and drove him to a mobile home where Norton lived with a friend, Steven James. Norton said that after an alleged advance by Maya, James attacked him; Maya tried to flee but was chased, dragged back, beaten and pleaded for his life while his car and credit cards were taken.

With a gun held on him by Lawrence Libberton, Maya was forced into his own car and driven about two hours to an isolated desert area near Salome. The three marched him to an abandoned mine shaft on property owned by James’s parents, where he was beaten, shot and his body discarded down the shaft. The attackers used Maya’s credit cards that day; Libberton was arrested while trying to obtain a cash advance on one of them. Steven James, Lawrence Libberton and Martin Norton were convicted for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of Juan Maya.

Does anyone have information about Maya or his movements in Phoenix before that November day?