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On November 6, 1998, a 15 yearold MexicanAmerican girl named Lisa Diane Norrell disappeared from a party at a dance hall in the East Bay town of Antioch. Eight days later, her asphyxiated body, hands bunched into fists, was found face down in the yard of a landscaping firm in Pittsburg, her hometown.It was the first of four murders of young women occurring over the span of two months in Pittsburg last year, and devastated Lisas largely workingclass community.Today, nearly 12 months after her death, police still have no suspects charged with the crime, and painfully few tips unlike other high profile murders of women in San Francisco and Yosemite National Park which resulted in arrests in the same period. It is a case which has inspired fears that a serial killer was on the loose, witnessed a local fire official escape criminal child molestation charges in exchange for offering evidence in the murder probe, sparked a court fight over media access to public records, and prompted changes in California state law governing the reporting of missing

 

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