Editing Hillside Strangler (section)

===Judith Miller===
On November 1, 1977, police were called to Alta Terrace Drive in [[La Crescenta-Montrose, California|La Crescenta]],<ref>''Two of a Kind: The Hillside Stranglers'' {{ISBN|978-0-453-00499-2}} p. 24</ref> a neighborhood 12 miles north of [[downtown Los Angeles]], where the body of a teenage girl was found naked, face up on a parkway in a middle-class residential area. The homeowner had covered her with a tarp in the early morning hours to prevent the neighborhood children from viewing her on their way to school.<ref name="cl5">{{cite web |last=Bardsley |first=Marilyn |title=Early Victims |url=http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/stranglers/victims_2.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210032548/http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/stranglers/victims_2.html |archive-date=February 10, 2015 |publisher=[[Crime Library]]}}</ref> Ligature marks were on her neck, wrists and ankles, indicating to police she was bound and strangled. The body had been dumped, indicating she was killed elsewhere.<ref name="cl5"/>

Detective Salerno also found a small piece of light-colored fluff on her eyelid and saved it for the [[forensic]] experts. A coroner's report further detailed that she had been raped and [[sodomy|sodomized]].<ref name="cl5"/> The girl, who was described as being "small and thin, weighing about 90 pounds and appearing to be about 16 years old",<ref name="cl5"/> was eventually identified as 15-year-old Judith Lynn Miller, a former student of [[Hollywood High School]]. After dropping out, Miller was a runaway and small-time sex worker.

Miller was last seen alive on Halloween, October 31, 1977, talking to a man driving a large, two-toned sedan on Sunset Boulevard next to [[Carney's]]. The stranglers had told her they were ‘undercover’ police officers, handcuffed her, and took her to Buono's Auto Upholstery Shop at 703 E. Colorado St. in [[Glendale, California|Glendale]], where she was murdered.