Is Latest Rodney Alcala Murder Link to Victim Pamela Lambson Serially Connected to Three More 1977 Bay Area Victims?
In 1977, a San Mateo newspaper originally suggested a possible link of the Pamela Lambson murder to three additional Bay Area murder victims: Alecia Perez, 25, Roxeme Rogasch, 18, and a “Jane Doe” victim found on Jan. 1, 1977
Can DNA link Rodney James Alcala to these unsolved Cold Cases?
Here is the original 1977 article describing the discovery of victim, Pamela Lambson’s body, which then goes on to name the three additional victims, [emphasis mine]:
The Times
San Mateo Times and Daily News
Tuesday, October 11, 1977
Woman’s Nude Body Found on Tamalpais
San Rafael. (AP)
The nude body of a young woman who apparently had been strangled has been found beside a hiking trail on Mount Tamalpais is the fourth such case this year.
Sgt. Richard Keaton of the Marin County sheriff’s office said the woman was identified as Pamela Lambson, 19, of San Jose.
“There was no evidence of sexual assault and no indication of where the slaying occurred before the body was dumped about 50 feet off Panoramic Highway, two miles north of Mountain Home Inn, “sheriff’s Lt. James Schwedheim said.
The body was spotted Sunday night by a jogger.
Last May the body of Alecia Perez, 25, of Sacramento was found near Red Rock Beach near Shoreline Highway. She had been shot in the head.
On Jan. 11 the body of an 18-year-old transient, Roxeme Rogasch, was found on Drake’s Hill near Sir Francis Drake Boulevard near Fairfax. She had apparently been suffocated.
The decomposed remains of another young woman, still unidentified were found Jan. 1 near Shoreline Highway.
ALCALA PHOTO COMPARED TO VICTIM LAMBSON COMPOSITE OF HER KILLER
At left, police sketch of the mystery photographer who met Pam Lambson at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco in October 1977, drawn from the memory of a store clerk and at right, Photograph of serial killer Rodney Alcala, taken in the mid 1970s.(COURTESY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT)
