White/Caucasian male, age 17, John William Leras died on January 4, 1975, in the Sunset Beach stretch of the Huntington Beach shoreline in Orange County, California. On the evening before his death, the 17-year-old male was last seen boarding a bus in Long Beach, headed to a skating rink with a new pair of roller skates; by the next day his strangled body was recovered at the water’s edge at Sunset Beach. Early reports and later summaries note a foreign object had been forced into his body, an
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