nov 26, 1964 - Joyce Gail Walker

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22yo; worked at the Space Technology Laboratories plant at 118th St and Aviation Blvd in Manhattan Beach. She had spent the evening of Wed., Nov. 25 at an employee party at 924 N. Sepulveda Boulevard, leaving her car in the plant parking lot. Some time after midnight, a fellow employee, Jack Ogden, offered to drive her back to her car. They stopped on the way at a bar. Walker reached the parking lot after 2am.

A few minutes later, ~2:30am, two MB policemen (William Smalley & Donald Lastra) saw her standing next to her wrecked car on Rosecrans Ave near Sepulveda Blvd, just outside the Manhattan Beach city limits, in El Segundo. She was talking w/ a young man. According to the officers, they spoke briefly w/ the man and got the impression he was offering his assistance as "a good Samaritan." they said Walker seemed "calm and unafraid and on friendly terms" w/ the man. The man was ~25yo, white, of medium height & weight. He had a definite limp, favoring his left leg. He had a late model sedan w/ the left front fender crumpled just in front of the wheel

Walker's car had evidently jumped a curb, struck a utility pole, and traveled another 50ft. The right front fender and side were damaged, and both right tires were flat. The two MB officers told Walker that the accident had occurred in El Segundo jurisdiction, and they contacted El Segundo PD. The pair told Walker that she could leave her car on the street overnight. The officers said that when they left, the man w/ the limp was still at the scene. This was the last time anyone saw Walker alive.

~10am that same day: two of her friends (Robert E Russo and Louise Hernandez) found her body sprawled on the floor of her apartment (or on her bed?) at 325 18th Place under a white chenille bedspread. She died of manual strangulation and multiple stab wounds of the neck, chest, and abdomen. She had been stabbed ~50 times, evidently w/ a paring knife w/ a 10in blade, found under the body. It was suspected that she had been raped because she was found with her clothes disarranged. This, however, had not been confirmed by the coroner



On May 28, 2024, a user named Joe Walker commented on Joyce's FindAGrave page, saying, "Your murder was never solved."


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