On Oct. 18, 2008, 25-year-old Michelle Serivens was found dead in the back seat of her car at 217 E. Nutwood Ave. in Inglewood. Authorities reported that she had been strangled and that it appeared she had been killed at another location and later moved to the Nutwood address where her body was discovered.
Serivens was a 25-year-old Black woman. The Inglewood Police Department was listed as the investigating agency. Inglewood city officials announced a $25,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of her killer or killers. Media accounts from the time noted the unusual circumstances that suggested the scene where she was found was not the place of the killing, but provided no public identification of suspects or motive.
Despite the reward and the investigation by the Inglewood Police Department, there is no public record in the available sources that an arrest, charge, conviction or formal identification of a perpetrator was made in Serivens' death. The case remains unresolved in public accounts: no suspect has been publicly charged and no closure has been announced. Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Inglewood Police Department's homicide section, which was the investigating agency noted in reports from the time.
