Article: UNSOLVED MURDER `A YEAR OF HELL' FOR VICTIM'S KIN POLICE NEED TIP IN MAN'S MURDER.(News)(Statistical Data Included)

Byline: Amy Collins Daily News Staff Writer

Walking home from a Toluca Lake market, with bags of groceries in both hands and $22 in his wallet, Peter Maloney was approached by a man on a yellow 10-speed bicycle who shot him and left him to die.

The killer got back on his bike and rode away.

That was nearly a year ago.

``Once in a while, citizens still call in and say they saw a yellow bicycle,'' said Los Angeles police Detective Mike Coffey of the North Hollywood Division. ``That's been as far as the case has gotten.''

The Maloney case is among 27 homicides that went unsolved in 1997, a year when 86 people were slain in the ...

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