Editing Hillside Strangler (section)

===Aborted abduction of Catharine Lorre Baker===
At some point in early November 1977,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19791117&id=O3gsAAAAIBAJ&pg=6965,284812&hl=en|title=Peter Lorre's Daughter was Near-victim of Hillside Strangler|access-date=September 11, 2016|newspaper=Lakeland Ledger|date=November 17, 1979}}</ref> the two men approached 24-year-old Catharine Lorre Baker, the daughter of actor [[Peter Lorre]] — famous for his role as a serial killer in [[Fritz Lang]]'s film [[M (1931 film)|''M'']] — with the intent of [[Kidnapping|abducting]] and killing her. However, when Lorre produced not only her driver's license when requested, but also a picture of her sitting on her father's lap as a child, the two let her go without incident, fearing the murder of a celebrity's child would attract an unusually high amount of police and press attention.<ref>{{cite news|last=Edwards|first=Elisabeth|url=https://www.thevintagenews.com/2022/06/10/peter-lorre-daughter-hillside-strangler/|title='Casablanca' Star Peter Lorre Saved His Daughter from the Hillside Strangler|newspaper=The Vintage News|date=June 10, 2022|access-date=April 1, 2023}}</ref>

Lorre did not realize who the men were until they were arrested, at which point she recalled that two men flashing L.A. police badges had approached her in the past.<ref name="vronsky191">{{cite book|first=Peter|last=Vronsky|title=Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters|url=https://archive.org/details/serialkillersmet00vron_582|url-access=limited|isbn=0-425-19640-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/serialkillersmet00vron_582/page/n212 191]|year=2004|publisher=Penguin }}</ref>
[[File:Dolores Cepeda Sonja Johnson November 13 1977A.jpg|210px|right|thumb|Dolores Cepeda (left) and Sonja Johnson]]