Melinda Raye Kimball

Melinda Raye Kimball was a 29-year-old woman living in Palm Springs, California, when escalating violence and repeated warnings culminated in her murder on July 16, 1978. Kimball, sometimes called Linda in contemporary accounts, lived with Phillip Carl Jablonski and had an infant daughter with him. Their relationship had become increasingly dangerous, and Kimball's mother, Isobel Pahls, also feared Jablonski after receiving obscene telephone calls and experiencing other malicious acts that polic ...