45 years after Fontana teen is found slain, 71-year-old man is convicted of murder

45 years after Fontana teen is found slain, 71-year-old man is convicted of murder

The unsolved slaying of 18-year-old Michelle “Missy” Jones of Fontana had haunted her family for decades. Fontana police opened an investigation after her naked body was found in a grapefruit grove at Live Oak and Santa Ana avenues on July 5, 1980. She appeared to have been sexually assaulted. Any leads investigators had, however, went nowhere. But in 2020, the San Bernardino County sheriff’s cold-case unit, assisted by a Fontana police detectiv…