Case History
The victim was located on the cliff / beach area below Bluff Road and Site Drive in Dana Point, California.
At 4 in the morning on Sept. 20, 1987, she called a cab from the Hampton Inn in Mission Viejo. She asked the cabby to drive her as far as $18 would take her. He let her out at the intersection of Cove Road and Scenic Drive, where she handed him a $10 bill and eight ones, and walked to the nearest cliff.
No one saw the woman climb the fence near the edge of the cliff and no one saw her jump, but investigators found marks on the side of the cliff where her body hit on the way down to the beach.
She had stacked her belongings neatly at the top of the cliff before she jumped. Among these items were a pack of cigarettes, a soda can and phone numbers that were traced to a nearby hotel. Near the fence, sheriff's deputies found a purse with a name embossed in gold. What looked like an easy case turned to mystery, however, when a trace of the name turned up the owner of the purse, very much alive in San Diego County. The woman was surprised she was contacted, and reported that the purse had been stolen about 10 years earlier by a person unknown.
Near the purse was a California road map, with a marker detailing freeways through San Bernardino, Riverside and Los Angeles counties, down into Orange County. Officials were unsure but thought the woman had been hitchhiking into the county.
She was carrying no identification on her person at the time of her death.

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