Andrea Joy Hall: The Redondo Beach Contact Record
The contact entry and a later state account serve different purposes.
Abstract
NamUs MP18051 lists July 8, 1979, as Andrea Joy Hall’s Date of Last Contact in Redondo Beach, California.1
The Contact Account
Its narrative describes Hall hitchhiking in Redondo Beach that day, without naming an observer or giving a clock time.1
The entry identifies Los Angeles Police Department case 79-250574, without a report date.1
The source provides a date and broad setting. It does not reproduce the original observation statement or explain how its timing was established.
Sourced Accounts and Questions
Here’s where you come in. Can you locate the original July 8 account for 79-250574 and identify what was directly observed?1
Keep the contact record, its supporting statement and later dated accounts in a Research File in Almost Solved. A later summary should retain its own date and purpose.
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Later State Account
A December 16, 2019, California corrections release names Hall among five victims, dates her death to July 8, 1979, and says her body had not been recovered.2
The release distinguishes Roy Norris’s guilty plea and cooperation from Lawrence Bittaker’s jury convictions.2
A conviction and the recovery of a missing person’s remains answer different questions. The 2019 account is not a new observation or independent confirmation of present recovery status.
Can you locate a later, case-specific agency record that clarifies the recovery position without treating the legal outcome as that answer?2
Scope and Method
Underlying observation statements and judgments were not inspected. Present recovery status was not independently established.
Prepared with AI assistance. Sources and references checked against the cited public materials. This paper is an original synthesis of the identified public sources; it does not reproduce article bodies, transcripts, or an investigative file.
Footnote References
- NamUs, MP18051, Andrea Joy Hall; reviewed November 2, 2026.
- California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, case-related news release, December 16, 2019.