On March 31, 1986, San Diego business leader Georgia Haggai was found shot to death in the entryway of her Scripps Ranch home. More than four decades later the killing is still unsolved, and a new wave of local coverage has dragged the case file back into the spotlight, where police insist it has never completely gone cold.
San Diego Police Department records list the crime scene as 9900 Dichondra Court. Officers were dispatched after neighbors reported gunfire and arrived to find Haggai lying in the entryway with multiple gunshot wounds. The department notes there were no signs of forced entry and that a suspect has never been identified.
Contemporaneous reporting in the Los Angeles Times described neighbors jolted awake by shots at about 5 AM and recounted how a large German shepherd stood guard when officers reached the house. That early account also noted that police recovered no weapon and found no evidence of a burglary…