Joan Katherine Foster Gianera, a 21-year-old Austrian woman, was tragically murdered on January 25, 1973, in Santa Cruz, California. Joan was married to Jim Ralph Gianera, and the couple lived on Western Drive in Santa Cruz. On that fateful day, both Joan and Jim were brutally attacked in their home by Herbert Mullin, a serial killer who terrorized the region during the early 1970s. Mullin, who had been a high school classmate of Jim, entered their residence and proceeded to shoot and stab both
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