Geneva Jean Hilliker-Ellroy was born 15 Apr 1915 in Tunnel City, WI. To Earl Everett Hilliker (1891-1940) & Jessie E. Wooward (1891-1950).
She married Armondo Lee Ellroy29 Aug 1947 in Venturo, CA. They had a son and divorced.
On 22 Jun 1958 Geneva was found on 22 Jun 1958 at Arroyo High School on Santa Anita Road and King’s Road— a football field with jerry-built goalposts. Those right-hand-corner X marks: the curbside bushes where they found her. She was She died of ligature asphyxiation. She sustained several blows to the head. Her fingernails were caked with blood, skin and beard fragments. The top of he dress was unbuttoned and one breast was spilling out.She fought back for her life.
The crime-scene report was logged in mid-book. The first El Monte cop to respond reported that “the victim was lying on her back at the side of the road. There was dry blood on her lips and nose. The lower part of the victim’s body was covered with a woman’s coat. The victim was wearing a multi-colored (blue and black) dress. A brassiere appeared to be around the victim’s neck. “
Was not a bra but her stockings.
Pasadena Independent
Pasadena, California
Fri, Jul 11, 1958 · Page 1
Los Angeles Examiner
Los Angeles, California
Fri, Jul 11, 1958 · Page 5
Los Angele Times
Mon June 22, 1958
Suspects:
Cruel-looking man. Rough trade. White trash with a vengeance. Hard eyes, tattoos, psychopathic rectitude.
I recognized Harvey Glatman, a sex killer executed in 1959. A note said he passed a polygraph test.
Photo of her x-husband Armando
Early in 1970, two women wrote Homicide and informed “To Whom It May Concern“ that they believed their respective ex-husbands murdered Geneva Hilliker Ellroy. Woman Number One stated that her ex worked at Packard Bell had had affairs with my mother and two other women there. The man “behaved in a suspicious fashion“ in the weeks following the killing and hit her when she pressed him about his whereabouts on the night of June 21. Woman Number Two said that her ex-husband harbored a “longstanding grudge“ against Jean Ellroy. My mother refused to process a workers’ compensation claim that the man had proffered, and his resentment sent him “off the deep end.“
Woman’s Number Two included a postscript: Her ex-husband torched a furniture warehouse in 1968 to avenge a dinette-set repossession.
Both letters read vindictively sincere. Both were respectful of police authority. Memorandums indicated that the leads were checked out.
One detective interviewed both ex-husbands. He concluded that the allegations were groundless and that the women did not know each other and thus could not have colluded.
A relatively obscure homicide. Two disturbingly similarly accusations— unrelated accusations—eleven and a half years after the crime.
This crime is unsolved, so sad that her little boy grew up not ever knowing what happened to her. Rather she was a good person or not she was his mother and the future was taken.
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