A seven-year crime saga finally came to an end after a woman was convicted of a brutal stabbing murder in a Los Angeles County mall parking lot.

In May 2018, authorities found 66-year-old Susan Leeds dead in her SUV, the first murder in the area in nearly 10 years. The day after her death, law enforcement arrested a homeless man for her death, but he was quickly released because of a lack of evidence.

Then-Sheriff Jim McDonnell, now the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, said detectives believed it was a random attack.

"We believe the motivation for this is robbery and that Mrs. Leeds was randomly chosen," McDonnell said in 2018.

The LA County Sheriff's Department pleaded with the public for help, alongside her family.

It wasn't until weeks later that deputies arrested Cherie

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