Adrienne Askew

Death by Force

On June 12, 1986, Adrienne Askew, a 56-year-old African American woman, was found dead in her apartment in Claremont, a city within Los Angeles County, California. Her death was the result of a brutal attack—she had been raped and strangled. The crime bore the hallmarks of a serial offender who had terrorized elderly women across Southern California for decades. Adrienne lived in the same apartment where her 85-year-old mother, Isabel Askew, had also been found dead two years earlier. Although ...Read More

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