(Simi Valley Police Department)It was a relative who came across the bodies of Rhonda Wicht and her son on Nov. 11, 1978. Defense attorneys criticized Simi Valley police for failing to investigate three other possible suspects, according to news accounts at the time. And the Simi Valley Mirror, a weekly tabloid, published reports asserting that investigators had focused on an innocent man. (Los Angeles Times / 1980)Still, the re-investigation of the case turned up several inconsistencies. Exactly 39 years later, on the anniversary of Wicht’s murder, Simi Valley police returned to the apartment complex in the early morning hours and stared out the same window.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 24, 2017 13:52 UTC