The Region - News from May 29, 1987

The slaying of a woman in South-Central Los Angeles is not connected to a string of attacks once believed to be the work of a serial killer, police said. Detectives from the Southside Serial Killer Task Force looked into the latest death and ruled out any connection with the 17 killings they are probing, Cmdr. William Booth said. “We see no connection,” Booth said, adding that the case was handed over to Southeast Division detectives. The body of a woman, who Booth said has not been identified, was found in an alley in the 300 block of East 104th Street. Similarities in the killings, which date to September, 1983, led police to tie the victims to one killer initially, but they now say more than one killer is involved. Detectives have added no new victims to the list of victims in nearly a year.