Vinicio Burgos Murder Site

First Documented
1980
Last Documented
1980

North Wilcox Avenue
Los Angeles (Hollywood), CA 90038
United States

Abstract
Date of Death – January 29, 1980Vinicio Burgos, age 45, a bartender at the Bonaventure Hotel, was found nude and strangled at his apartment in Hollywood on his bed.
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Citations

Murders – GLBT Related --1980 – 1989, ONE Subject File collection, Coll2012-001, ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, Los Angeles, California

Geo
34.0916113, -118.3310089

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