At least seven young women and girls were murdered by a serial killer operating in the North Bay.
Fifty years ago, Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber walked into Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa. It was 9 p.m. on a Friday, and their mothers wouldn’t be back to pick them up for two hours. The middle school students, experiencing a little taste of freedom, must have been buzzing with excitement.
Lori Lee Kursa, Carolyn Davis, Maureen Sterling, Therese Walsh, Kim Wendy Allen and Yvonne Weber, the victims of the Santa Rosa hitchhiker murderer.Maureen, 12, and Yvonne, 13, were friends and students at Herbert Slater Middle School in Santa Rosa. They were last seen sometime between 9 and 11 p.m. on Feb. 4, 1972. According to Yvonne’s stepfather, Santa Rosa police “insisted” the young pair were willing runaways. “It is obvious that they weren’t,” he told the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
There was one other odd clue left behind by the murderer: Kim’s body had traces of a greasy residue. Investigators believed it was an oil used in a machine shop, such as one that had metal-cutting equipment.Lori, just 13, was reported missing by her mother in November 1972. Lori had a history of running away, and it was believed she initially left of her own volition to stay with friends in Santa Rosa. Her body was found on Dec. 14 in a ravine 50 feet off Calistoga Road in Santa Rosa.
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