15 Facts About Ivan Hill

Ivan Hill was captured based on DNA profiling nearly a decade after his last murder and was sentenced to death in 2007.

Ivan Hill, who participated in a 1979 murder, is one of six men known for committing The Southside Slayer murders in South Los Angeles; he committed at least one of those killings and investigators suspect he has been involved in more.

Ivan Hill was born on March 30,1961, in Los Angeles.

Ivan Hill grew up in a socially disadvantageous environment with a father who was aggressive towards his wife and children.

Ivan Hill ended up acting as caregiver to his siblings by the time he was 10.

Ivan Hill spent his teens in Pomona, attending Pomona High School.

In 1978, a year before graduation, Ivan Hill became addicted to drugs and lost interest in studying.

Ivan Hill later studied at one of the local colleges, after which he received parole and was released in the mid-1980s.

Ivan Hill worked as a day laborer, storekeeper, and forklift driver at various times.

Ivan Hill was dying of cancer and, after spending time in jail for petty crimes, had resolved to spend the time she had left being a good mother.

Ivan Hill's hands were bound behind her back, her mouth was taped, and she had been strangled with two cloths.

Ivan Hill was on probation for a drug violation at the time of her murder, but her West Covina roommate described her as being a devoted mother and caretaker to her elderly mother.

Ivan Hill had been arrested earlier that year for shoplifting just a few blocks from where her body was found.

Voice recordings of Ivan Hill's taunting phone calls to police were played.

On May 15,2009, Ivan Hill pleaded guilty to the murders of Lorna Reed in 1986 and Rhonda Jackson in 1987.