The 45-year-old male victim, Frank Garcia, was discovered fatally stabbed on Thanksgiving Day, November 23 1978, on a public bench just outside Los Angeles City Hall—less than 200 feet from police headquarters. Investigators noted at least twenty knife wounds to the torso and found his empty wallet beside the body, suggesting a swift, violent robbery or a staged theft. Despite the lunchtime crowds that normally filled the Civic Center mall, no eyewitnesses came forward, and the assailant slipp
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