On March 21, 1975, Leah Griffin, a 60-year-old white woman, was found bound, raped, and strangled in her room at a residential hotel on Powell Street in San Francisco. Griffin, a retired legal secretary, was known to be a heavy drinker and had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Her murder was one of several in California during the early 1970s that exhibited similar patterns: middle-aged or elderly women, often with health issues or alcohol dependency, were sexually assaulted and strang
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