John Beasley Mabe III was 30 when he was killed in Etna, California, on May 6, 1987. Born August 13, 1957, in Sacramento, he had lived in the region for much of his life and is buried in Sacramento.

There is no publicly noted information about suspects, leads, or the circumstances that led to his death, and the case appears not to have been widely reported or preserved in accessible archives.

Did anyone in the Etna or Sacramento area at the time have memories or information about John Mabe or the circumstances of his death?