The 45-year-old male victim, Frank Garcia, was discovered fatally stabbed on Thanksgiving Day, November 23 1978, on a public bench just outside Los Angeles City Hall�less than 200 feet from police headquarters. Investigators noted at least twenty knife wounds to the torso and found his empty wallet beside the body, suggesting a swift, violent robbery or a staged theft. Despite the lunchtime crowds that normally filled the Civic Center mall, no eyewitnesses came forward, and the assailant slipped
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