Sheila Burris

On a cool autumn day in Los Angeles, on November 18, 1984, the body of a 30-year-old Black/African American woman named Sheila Rae Burris was discovered abandoned in an alley. An autopsy would later reveal the grim details of her demise; she had been both stabbed and strangled, a violent end to a young life. Her death was not an isolated incident but one of a string of slayings that haunted the Southside of the city, sparking fear and prompting the creation of a special task force to hunt for a ...

Sheila Burton, 30 - The Homicide Report - Los Angeles Times