He took her to a remote campsite in the deserts north of Los
Angeles, photographed
her in a variety
of modelling poses, and
then strangled her.
After killing her, Bradford sliced off her tattoos
and removed her blouse; he then transported her body
to a Hollywood
parking lot, where he dumped the corpse in an adjoining alley. When the
body
was found, there was no identification on it, leading Miller to be
labeled "Jane Doe #60".
Fifteen-year-old Tracey Campbell also fell
victim to serial killer William Bradford.
In 1988, William Richard “Bill” Bradford was sentenced to death by the
state of California
for the rape and
murder of one 15-year-old neighbor and a 21-year-old barmaid,
two
aspiring models.
After Bradford had
served 18 years on death row in California’s San Quentin State Prison
a detective in the Los Angeles
police department uncovered 54 photographs of “aspiring
models” that
had been used against Bradford
in his original trial for the deaths of Tracy
Campbell and Shari
Miller. These 54 photographs were
released in poster-size under the
heading “Information Wanted: Have
You Seen These Women
or Know Their Location?” in July of 2006.
Since the poster went up, Donnalee Campbell Duhamel, or “#28″ on the
poster, has been identified
as deceased at 31-years-old, her body found decapitated in a canyon in
Malibu in 1978. Woman #3
has been identified as alive, and the sister of actress Eva LaRue, and
a CSI: Miami episode
(“Darkroom”) was based on this case. Now, nearly 4 years after the
poster was released, police
say 31 women have been identified (most of them still living)
including some of Bradford’s ex-wives.
One of the women, Nika La Rue (#3 and far left in #54) was
identified
by her older sister, Eva LaRue, an actress on CSI Miami.
