RivCo D-A Looking Into Cold Case From 1988

The Riverside County District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigation is asking for the public’s help in solving the case of a woman who went missing 36 years ago.

On December 26th 1988, the Perris Police Department discovered the body of a woman near 330 E. 4th Street, in the City of Perris. Police were unable to identify the victim and the case remained unsolved. The victim was laid to rest.

34 years later, In 2022, the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Team, which is supervised by the DA’s Bureau of Investigation, exhumed the victim’s body and conducted Forensic Genetic Genealogy. This enabled the team to identify the female victim as 25-year-old Jacqueline Danette Ebel. She was reported missing from the Long Beach area around December 23th 1988. 

The Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team is asking the community to contact investigators with any information about the homicide or the victim that could assist them with this investigation. Any leads, no matter how insignificant they may seem, can be reported to the Cold Case Hotline at (951) 955-5567, or by emailing [email protected].

If you believe that you are a relative to the victim of an unsolved homicide, please consider contacting GedMatch for DNA comparison by visiting www.gedmatch.com. The Regional Cold Case Homicide Team is comprised of members of the District Attorney’s Office Bureau of Investigation, the Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner Office, and the Riverside Police Department.

Murder victim Jacqueline Ebel circa Dec 1988.

Photo from Riverside County District Attorneys Office Aug 2024