Yolanda Washington
On the morning of October 17, 1977, the first body was found. They body was lying on a hillside near Forest Lawn Cemetery, next to the Ventura Freeway. She was tall and black, and naked. Most likely, they would have thrown her body down the hill from a car. The temperature of the girl’s body showed she had died the previous night. The identification was surprisingly easy.
Her fingerprints were registered in police files. She was a prostitute named Yolanda Washington. Normally, she worked in the vicinity of Hollywood Boulevard. The autopsy showed that sex had taken place and that two men had participated. One of them was “not segregated,” a person whose blood group cannot be determined from other bodily fluids. These men, however, could have simply been customers. They could have nothing to do with the murder. The woman had been strangled with a piece of clothing while the murderer was on top of her.