May 21, 1969
Hollywood — A flat tire may have led to the rape and murder of an attractive San Fernando Valley State College student, police said Tuesday. The young woman, whose body was found Monday in a ravine off Mulholland Drive, near Beverly Drive, was identified Tuesday as Rose Tashman, 19, a native of Israel who moved to Los Angeles with her parents seven years ago.
Her identity was established through a missing persons report filed Monday by her parents, Mr and Mrs. Charles Tashman of 448 N. Formosa Ave.
The Tashmans said their daughter left their home in her own car Sunday night to study for a college examination with a friend in Van Nuys. The car was found Tuesday, its left front tire deflated, on the shoulder of Highland Ave. off-ramp of the inbound Hollywood Freeway.
Sgt. N. L. Allen of the North Hollywood detective division said the victim evidently had accepted a ride to obtain aid from someone who drove her to the spot where her body was found. There she had been raped, strangled, and her body dumped in the ravine.
Category: The Rose Tashman Case