Not as much information was available in the Times archives on Lisa, but here’s what we know about her. Lisa was born in St Petersburg and attended Dixie Hollins High, where she played flute in the band for two years. She was also a majorette, a member of the Civinettes service club, and a staffer of the Dixie Legend yearbook. Lisa was studying fashion merchandising at FSU and worked at the Colony Shop in Tallahassee.

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She had been a member of Congregation B’nai Israel of St. Petersburg. When she wasn’t in school, she lived with her mother, Henny, and worked at the Colony Shop at Tyrone Square Mall during summers and holidays.

She was just 20 years old when she died.

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​Lisa Levy was the first girl that officers found dead. Pathologists who later performed the autopsy on her found that she had been beaten on the head with a log, raped and strangled. Upon further examination, they discovered bite marks on her buttocks and on one of her nipples. In fact, Lisa's nipple had been so severely bitten that it was almost severed from the rest of her breast. She had also been sexually assaulted with a hair spray bottle.