Jennifer Roeder, also known as Jenny Maxwell, was 39 when she was shot to death in the lobby of her Beverly Hills condominium on June 10, 1981. Her estranged husband, Ervin Tip Roeder, a former sheriff’s deputy turned lawyer, was also shot and killed during the same incident. Initial reports described the killings as the result of a botched robbery, and no one was charged at the time.

Family members, notably her cousin Buddy Moorehouse, disputed the robbery explanation and suspected a more deliberate killing possibly tied to organized crime. Moorehouse later pursued his own investigation and in 2018 teamed with retired LAPD detective Mike Thies, who had worked the original case. Thies expressed the view that the deaths were a targeted hit and that Tip Roeder may have arranged for Jenny to be killed while he was meant to be only wounded, a plan that allegedly went wrong.

The case remains officially unsolved with no arrests or charges reported. Did anyone in Hollywood or Beverly Hills at the time know details about the Roeder marriage or the people Tip Roeder associated with?