The following is not my own doing, but I feel it warrants revisiting. Real credit should go to
iNTERESTEDWOMAN and
Pink Panther:
On 08-03-2007, iNTERESTEDWOMAN posted what is believed to be the last known photograph of Rose, which you can see at the following link:
Later on 03-18-2010, Pink Panther followed up with one of the unidentified pre-1979 photos taken by convicted serial killer, Rodney Alcala. In particular, the following image here looks like a very close match:
Here is a second slightly different image:
Both of the latter two might very well be a sixteen-year-old girl.
Rodney Alcala has been placed in the Bay Area, albeit in 1977. Still, this may not have been his first visit:
In March 2011 investigators in Marin County, north of San Francisco, announced that they were "confident" that Alcala was responsible for the 1977 murder of 19-year-old Pamela Jean Lambson, who disappeared after making a trip to Fisherman's Wharf to meet a man who had offered to photograph her. Her battered, naked body was subsequently found in Marin County near a hiking trail. With no fingerprints or usable DNA, charges are unlikely to be filed, but police claimed that there is sufficient evidence to convince them that Alcala committed the crime.
SOURCE:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alcala#San_Francisco
Now, I don't know for certain if the girls are, in fact, the same person. Nor do I know if this theory has been debunked elsewhere---if it has, please feel free to point it out! However, I feel not much attention has been paid to these photos and I'm wondering if there could be a possible match.
Note - Some of the girls in Alcala's photos have already been identified and not everyone pictured was a murder victim. Some survive to this day.