Woman, 84, Found Slain in Bay Park

An 84-year-old San Diego woman was found murdered with her throat slashed after she was first apparently sexually attacked in her Bay Park home, San Diego police homicide detectives said Saturday.

Angela Kleinsorge, a native of Germany, was found dead in her bedroom when her daughter dropped by the woman’s Gaines Street home--less than three blocks from the police department’s Western Division headquarters--shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday morning.

Kleinsorge, a resident of San Diego for more than a half-century, had knife wounds to her hands and throat, homicide Lt. Paul Ybarrondo said. “There were signs of forced entry to the house and indications of possible sexual attack against the victim,” Ybarrondo said.

The murder shocked and angered residents along the quiet street just a half-mile down the hill from the University of San Diego campus in Linda Vista.

“This is a very fine, very middle-class neighborhood where most people have lived for 30 years or more,” said one longtime resident, who spoke Saturday for the majority of the 14 homeowners along the 5000 block of Gaines.

“Angela--Mrs. Kleinsorge--was a lovely, refined, dignified, regal Old-World lady and I emphasize the word ‘lady’ ,” said the resident, who asked that her name not be used.

“I am so enraged at the beast who invaded her home and butchered her.”

The victim had lived at the corner of Gaines and Colusa streets since 1941, the resident said.

“She lived alone, but her daughter checked on her every day and on Saturdays they would go out together for shopping,” she said. The daughter had called her mother about 8 p.m. Friday and told police after the gruesome discovery that everything was all right at the time, Ybarrondo said Saturday.

Kleinsorge was also seen working in her garden on Friday and waved to her neighbors, the Gaines Street resident said Saturday.

“Everyone around here knows each other, we know everyone’s phone numbers, we care for each other,” she said. She quickly ran down the names of neighbors along the block, noting one family had lived there since 1946, another since 1957, a third since 1958.

The Kleinsorge property has two one-bedroom rental units in the rear, but apparently no one heard anything unusual during the night.

“There was a party down the street with some USD students and we heard them leaving about 1 a.m., starting their cars, and I went out on the porch,” the unnamed resident said. But there was nothing out of the ordinary, she said.

“Everyone along the street has sufficient external lighting all around,” the resident said. “Mrs. Kleinsorge has a big light over her driveway and over the side-door entry.”

The assailant apparently entered the home by climbing over a seven-foot fence on the Colusa Street side of the house and entering a back window, the resident said.

“And her daughter told police that there didn’t even appear to be anything taken,” she said. “There’s a possibility that (the assailant) was even in the house for a while.

“No one deserves to die like that.”