In 1983 eighty-eight year old Gertrude McCabe was found brutally murdered in her own home in San Jose, California in what was believed at the time to be a bungled burglary. Gertrude was bludgeoned, stabbed more than ninety times in the face and neck with a butcher knife times, and choked and bound with bicycle chain. So vicious was the attack that the octogenarian had to be identified by her wristwatch and jewellery.