The Region - News from March 19, 1986

The Los Angeles City Council is offering a $25,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a serial killer suspected in the strangling and stabbing deaths of 16 women. Most of the killings, which stretch back as far as 2 1/2 years, involve prostitutes in South-Central Los Angeles and Inglewood. All but two of the victims were black. In unanimously approving the reward, the council noted that although most of the victims were prostitutes, women throughout the city have been increasingly alarmed about the unsolved murders.