Lewis Randy Williamson found the girl's body off of Highway 243. Esther Gonzalez, 17 at the time, had been raped, killed and dumped in a snowbank on the side of the highway. Williamson called the ...

In February of that year, Esther Gonzalez, 17, was attacked while walking from her parents’ house to her sister’s home in Riverside County, about 55 miles east of Los Angeles. The next day, ...

Five cold cases solved, while U.S. homicide rate in 2024 is predicted to return to levels recorded in 2019, and as family ...

Esther Gonzalez was killed in 1979, and her killer had remained unidentified for decades. Her sister, Liz Gonzalez, said she would never have hurt anyone. “Sometimes I wish I would have followed ...

Esther Gonzalez, 17, was sexually assaulted and killed while walking from her parents’ house in Beaumont to her sister’s house in Banning on Feb. 10, 1979, according to the news release.