17 infamous crimes in Sonoma County history. [36] These consist of the six found victims as of 1975 and the following: The unapprehended Zodiac Killer is a suspect,[51] due to similarities between an unknown symbol on his January 29, 1974 "Exorcist letter" to the San Francisco Chronicle, in which he claims 37 victims,[52] and the Chinese characters on the missing soy barrel carried by Kim Allen,[53] as well as stating an intention to vary his modus operandi in an earlier November 9, 1969 letter to the San Francisco Chronicle: "I shall no longer announce to anyone. In May 2006, 21 months after Cutshall and Allen were slain, Sonoma County Sheriff's detectives released new evidence in the case, which they hoped would generate new leads. At 10:30 AM on May 5, 2017, Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas read the following statement regarding the 2004 Jenner double murder case: "Good morning ladies and gentlemen. At least seven women and girls were killed in the span of a few years, all dumped on the sides of roads in Sonoma County. One of the most challenging sections of the old road, the 500-foot drop along. [2][7] Davis was last seen hitchhiking that afternoon near the Highway 101 ramp,[4] southbound,[2][17] in Garberville. This is a list of notable male murderers who committed their murders in California, USA. Retired Sonoma County sheriff's detective Butch Carlstedt told the media in 1989 he looked into over 300 suspects. The weapon used was a .45-caliber Marlin Model 1894 long rifle, either a long colt style, or a carbine magazine. There was one other odd clue left behind by the murderer: Kims body had traces of a greasy residue. The city of Santa Rosa, in Sonoma County, California, was once the location for just one series of horrific murders, which would go on to shock this . [26][27] The victim had been hogtied[28] and her arm fractured around the time of her murder,[25][29] and her corpse had been stuffed into a laundry or duffel bag before being dumped in the ravine,[27] but there was no other evidence to establish a cause of death. Her biological parents then located her shortly afterwards and took her back to their home in Livermore, California, according to the article, which quoted a juvenile officer from the sheriffs office.[31]. Police thought it was suicide, but friends are sure it's murder, Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). I loved her. On . The mate to the earring was not found at the scene. Boaters discovered her partially submerged underneath a log in Mark West Creek. It was also proven that Allens killer had bound her wrists and ankles prior to her death. She was treated at Novato General Hospital for a skull fracture and multiple, severe cuts and bruises. Looking further into this, according to the same report, from 1965 to 2019 there were roughly 128,787 murders in California alone. Slide 1 of 11. [30] An article published on April 1, 1971 in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat reported that the "Lisa Smith" treated at Novato General Hospital was the same person as the missing 17-year-old Lisa Michele Smith. The vehicle then sped north on Calistoga Road. During those years, at least seven young women were sexually assaulted, tortured, and murdered by an unknown killer. Unsolved Murders SD Crime Stoppers. Authorities could not identify a cause of death for the victims who were found in 1979 but duct tape was found at the scene, likely indicating the two girls had been bound. Although ballistics determined the gun type, police declined to publicly disclose it, in order "to eliminate false leads." Perhaps in your youth, you caught the episode of Unsolved Mysteries that featured "the Blue Lady," a ghost said to haunt the Moss Beach Distillery and roam the coastal cliffs nearby. Authorities later said she had traveled to Illinois and New Mexico. It is also possible that the killer may have carried Walshs body for miles prior to disposal.[7]. Nine days later, her body was found near a Highway 101 offramp in south Petaluma. Her headstone reads: "Beloved daughter and mother.". The Sheriff's Office has identified Shaun Gallon, a 38 year old resident of Forestville, California, as Jason and Lindsay's killer. In the 1980s, former county coroner Tom Siebe told the Press Democrat a middle-aged married man who died in a car accident in the mid-1970s was their prime suspect. 2019. The truck was described as a 1950s model with a wooden homemade camper in the back.[8]. It was never determined whether Kursas dislocated vertebrae injury had occurred before or after her death. On that day, two middle school students, Maureen Sterling (left above) and Yvonne Weber (right above), went missing. The witness saw the men run across the road with the girl and push her into the back of a van that had been parked on the side of the roadway. The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Like all of the others, she had been unceremoniously dumped into a ravine. He works as a freelance writer and has been published in The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, Listverse, and other publications. Nicknamed "the Doodler"because his modus operandi was to sketch victims, have sex with them and then stab them, this unknown San Francisco serial killerhunted the Castro District in 1974 and 1975. Robert Levinson The Daytona Beach Killer The Burrowing Burglars Quadriga The Evansdale Murders Dwayne Jones Philip Fraser The Delphi Murders Danniella Vian The Abduction of Violet Ripken The Monster With 21 Faces Cyle Van Komen & Kevin Nelson Brittany Phillips The Assassination of Philip Barton Key Judy Weichert Larry Chism West Mesa Bone Collector "It's a horrible, senseless crime," said Margo Rohrbacher of the Central Marin Police. and Bundys locations didnt match, and he was ruled out. She is believed to have been between 16 and 21 when she was killed, had red, auburn or brown hair, was 5-foot-3 and wore hard contact lenses. The US in the early 1970s was awash in serial murder. SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Last week, the Sonoma County Sheriff's office announced that they've finally identified who killed a 32-year-old Union City woman and mother of three girls in 1996. 1976: Alvin Maddux and Faye Maddux; Elaine Lehtinen, 1980: Charles Slack; Ruben Huijon; Douglas Hancock, 1981: Ian Dallas; Lloyd Johnson; Henry Villanueva, 1991: Kin Po-Ko; Peggy Swarts; Marty Davis, 2007-2009: Johnethel McGehee (McGhee's remains were found in the Berryessa area in 2009; detectives determined she died in 2007. The cause of the plane's crash remains a mystery. Fifty years ago, Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber walked into Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa. The victim had been bound at the ankles and wrists, raped and slowly strangled with a cord for an estimated thirty minutes. Police also did not question any of the girls classmates and many were not aware they were considered missing. She was last seen alive on December 22, 1973, at Zuma Beach in the tiny resort town of Malibu, California. The combination of their humanity and professionalism would not allow them to give up on this case. These skeletons would not be identified as Graham and Trimble until 2015. Evidence at the crime scene proved that Walsh had been hog-tied by her assailant. [1] Resslers in-depth penetration into the minds of sexual sociopaths lead him to become the worlds foremost expert on murder. Camo beer originates in Wisconsin, is no longer made, and is an uncommon beer in California. Less than a month later, on December 14, Kursas partially frozen nude body was found by a couple out walking along Calistoga Road. in Sonoma County, California, was once the location for just one series of horrific murders, which would go on to shock this normally peaceful community to the core and which have remained unexplained to this day. I wish I could name them all, but there are too many to list. Juan Valencia told SFGATE in a statement. Despite an exhaustive effort by detectives, this avenue of the investigation never yielded any solid leads. [4] Two people later called in tips to the police about possible sightings of Kursa. Examinations of the remains found that both victims had been bound with duct tape and buried in plastic bags. The number of currently unsolved California murders is absolutely shocking. Try another? For decades, several murders and missing persons cases have puzzled law enforcement throughout the North Coast. Graham had a habit of running away to stay with friends, as had her older siblings, and her parents were not overly concerned at first when she did not come home. All of them were wearing life jackets. Over the past half-century several unsolved murders have haunted the North Coast. [7] They last saw her at approximately 5:20 p.m. hitchhiking to school near the Bell Avenue entrance to Highway 101, northbound,[4] carrying a large wooden soy barrel with red Chinese characters on it. That witness believed the drive was a white male in his early 20s with Afro style hair.. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. Due to cold weather, her body was partially frozen and it appeared she had been killed one or two weeks prior. Attendees had been instructed to arrive by 10:15 AM. . [2] Investigators postulated that her body had been thrown from the road as the hillside brush appeared undisturbed. The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa of the North Bay area of California in 1972 and 1973. [2], Carolyn Nadine Davis, 15, ran away from her home outside Anderson in Shasta County[3] on February 6, 1973[16] and spent the next five months traveling. The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California which was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. One-Year Anniversary of the Unsolved Murder of 12-Year-Old Angel Gaspar. A nurse at the hospital thought she looked about 21-years-old. Friends told homicide detectives that Walsh planned on hitchhiking back to Garberville, a full 740 kilometers (460 mi) north of Malibu. A witness to Jeannette Kamaheles possible kidnapping said they saw her get into a 1950s pickup truck pulling a faded wooden camper that looked homemade. They planned to marry in autumn of 2004. )Source: Napa County Cold Case Investigation Unit. But several cold cases still remain unsolved. At least it should be. Prosecutors allege he drowned Priscilla Lewis in 1996 in an attempted rape and burglary at a restaurant in the city of Crockett. Eureka/Humbold At the time of Allens murder, Manalli, a former member of the US Army and a native of Illinois, had been a creative writing professor at Santa Rosa Junior College. Shell casings were not found at the scene of the crime, suggesting the killer retrieved them. Thank you. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Davis, a resident of Shasta County, California, ran away after being dropped off at the post office in Garberville by her grandmother. It was identified as an occult symbol dating back to medieval England and suggested a possible connection to the Zodiac Killer. Public assistance is vital to law enforcement, and rewards may encourage the public cooperation needed to . New evidence including poems found near the crime scene, writings contained in a journal left for visitors inside a nearby driftwood hut, an empty 40-ounce bottle of Camo beer, and drawings inked onto pieces of driftwood near the site of the killings. To this day, she has not been identified. The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders remain some of the Bay Area's most baffling unsolved crimes. He had information about the killings that no other person could have known and we have located evidence that corroborates his information. The cause of death could not be determined. A Pan Am airplane named "The Romance of the Skies" took off from SFO in 1957 but never arrived in Hawaii as scheduled. No additional information will be released at this time.. UPDATED: Please read and follow our commenting policy: From the mysterious disappearance of two teens in Forestville to answers in the killing of a Napa beauty queen, here are 11 cold cases we won't soon forget. [5] Their bodies were found on December 28, 1972, [6] 2.2 miles (3.5km) north of Porter Creek Road on Franz Valley Road, down a steep embankment approximately 66 feet (20m) off the east side of the roadway. To the chagrin of homicide detectives, both suspects passed their polygraph examinations. If you haven't seen David Fincher's film Zodiac, you should. And the dedication of all the lieutenants, sergeants, detectives, and support personnel of Sheriff's Office Investigations throughout the years has totally amazed us. No additional information was provided until the press conference. The Sonoma County Sheriff's Office held a press conference on Friday, May 5, 2017, regarding major developments in the 2004 Jenner double murder case. [4], Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen grew up in the Midwestern United States. She defended me tooth and nail. This story was originally published Feb. 1, 2021. All told, it had taken 30 minutes for Allen to expire. Then someone killed him. when I comitt my murders, they shall look like routine robberies, killings of anger, + a few fake accidents, etc." Her cause of death was determined to be spinal cord trauma, possibly from jumping or being pushed out of a moving vehicle. Upon Gallon's arrest for the murder of his brother, Sheriff's Office Detectives took another opportunity to talk to him about the murders in Jenner. Another possible victim of the Santa Rosa killer, 17-year-old Lisa Smith of Petaluma, had been abducted not long after hitchhiking on Hearn Avenue in Santa Rosa. The helicopter spotted the bodies and notified the department. On Sunday, March 5, two high school students, 17-year-olds John Bly and Scott Bunting, found Allens nude body in a creek bed near Santa Rosa. [4] Her body was discovered on July 31, 1973 in Santa Rosa, just 3 feet (0.91m) from where the remains of Sterling and Weber had been recovered seven months prior. 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Davis would not be seen again until her corpse was discovered on July 31. In the kidnapping of Lori Kursa, the public was asked to look for a white man with an Afro-hair style driving a white van. Three days before Christmas 1973, Therese attempted to hitchhike from Malibu up to Garberville, where her 2-year-old child and extended family lived. [20] The symbol was located on the roadway above the site where Davis was found. Police also learned that an eyewitness had seen Jeanette getting into a brown Chevrolet pickup truck. In Mendocino County, DNA evidence allowed sheriff's detectives to close the books on the quarter-century old murder investigation of Georgina Pacheco, 20, who was raped and bludgeoned to death by her brother-in-law, Robert James Parks in 1988. Many claim to have spotted a beautiful woman in ghostly blue, and legend has it that she was murdered while walking up to the restaurant. Beyond this highly circumstantial evidence, there was nothing to tie Manalli to any of the murders in Santa Rosa. Carolyn apparently lived with her grandmother in Garberville for a while before deciding to hitchhike to Modesto. The Sonoma County Sheriff's department offered a $50,000 reward for information.[5]. Lori, just 13, was reported missing by her mother in November 1972. Amazingly, friends and schoolmates of both girls had lived for over 30 years without ever knowing that the girls were even missing, let alone dead.[10]. To all who have worked this case over the years, we can't thank you enough . A mate to the earring was not found at the scene. Gallon's motive for the killings of the couple and his brother have not yet been ascertained. [13][2] Her frozen remains were located on December 14, 1972, in a ravine approximately 50 feet (15m) off Calistoga Road,[4] northeast of Rincon Valley in Santa Rosa. But the M.O. After her husband's death from tuberculosis in 1881, Sarah Winchester inherited more than $20.5 million. We have appreciated your support for this case throughout our thirteen-year ordeal. [16], It was determined that the unidentified victim was approximately 16- to 21-years-old, wore hard contact lenses (kept in a metal candy tin with a picture of cherries on it), had red, auburn, or brown hair, was about 5feet 3inches (1.60m) tall and at one time had broken a rib which was healed by the time of the murder. At around 5:20, Allen was seen hitchhiking at the Bell Avenue Freeway entrance. The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa of the North Bay area of California in 1972 and 1973. The girls, whom the friend described as dressed in such a way that they were able to pass for several years older than they actually were, disappeared a short time later. I'm grateful to the dozens of detectives, from all of the Sheriff's Office investigative units, who persistently and faithfully worked on this case for nearly 13 years. ", With this statement, police believe that they have identified the perpetrator of the double homicide as 38 year old Shaun Gallon, a resident of Forestville, California. Specifically, Trimbles mother filed a missing child report with the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office in mid-December, while the Graham family did not report their daughter missing until Christmas Eve. They were last seen hitchhiking on Guerneville Road, northwest of Santa Rosa. Cutshall was from Fresno, Ohio and Allen was from Zeeland, Michigan. The crime remains unsolved, and the Sonoma County Sheriffs Office recently asked for the publics help identifying a suspect in the case. Her body was found the following day down an embankment in a creek bed 20 feet (6.1m) off Enterprise Road in Santa Rosa. ", "No Contest Plea In Notorious 2004 Jenner Beach Murders; DA Agrees Not To Seek Death Penalty", "Jenner beach killer Shaun Gallon sentenced to life in prison", "10 years on, Jenner beach killings haunt 2 families", "Retracing the doomed couple's steps / Slain Christian camp counselors spent some time in S.F. The case remained unsolved at that time. Author Robert Graysmith put forward the idea that the Santa Rosa killer was really San Franciscos Zodiac Killer. No clothing was found, so it was assumed they had been nude when they were left about 66 feet from the road. Friends said she was a frequent hitchhiker, which was not uncommon for young women at the time. This is a family newspaper, please use a kind and respectful tone. However, a US Department of Justice report published in 1992 ruled out Bundys involvement due to gas receipts showing that Bundy had not been in the area on the dates in question. The rifle is uncommon, considered too high caliber for most ranchers, and most likely would have required hand loaded ammunition. They'd started their road trip from Fisherman's Wharf the day before their murders, which remain unsolved to this day. Fiften-year-old Kerry Graham (left above) and 14-year-old Francine Trimble (right above), both of Forestville, California, went missing sometime in December 1978. I would like to acknowledge and thank the current investigative team: Lieutenant Tim Duke, Sgt. Eyewitnesses who claimed to have seen Kursa in Santa Rosa told investigators that she had been thrown into a van on Parkhurst Drive by two unidentified men. The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa of the North Bay area of California in 1972 and 1973. For that reason, we are releasing a photo of Shaun Gallon. Based on what detectives have been able to learn, we feel confident that we have Jason and Lindsay's killer in custody. [27][3][16] Her weight and eye color could not be ascertained, and no clothing was found. Namely, in Zodiac Unmasked, Graysmith notes that a police officer had informed him that chipmunk hairs had been found on the bodies of several Santa Rosa victims. When Ted Bundy was apprehended in 1975, detectives thought he may have killed the girls in the Bay Area; he often targeted young women with long, straight hair parted down the middle, which all of the Santa Rosa victims had. Skeletal remains were found the following July in Mendocino County where they were dumped off the side of a rural highway, but they were not identified as belonging to Graham and Trimble until 2015 thanks to DNA analysis. He reportedly brandished a gun and threatened to rape her. [2], The cause of her death was a broken neck with compression and hemorrhage of the spinal cord. It was 9 p.m. on a Friday, and their mothers wouldnt be back to pick them up for two hours. Police had believed the girls were runaways and had not thoroughly investigated their disappearance. Jenner Beach Double Murder Camping near the beach is one of life's great pleasures. All cases are still active and under investigation, Sonoma County Sheriffs Office spokesperson Sgt. Gallon made statements to the detectives with new information (he spontaneously confessed) and additional investigative leads into the case. On that day, two middle school students, Maureen Sterling (left above) and Yvonne Weber (right above), went missing. The pair, both aged 12 and students at Herbert Slater Middle School, spent their last night alive hanging out at the Redwood Empire Ice Arena. The press conference was held at the Sheriff's Office building at 2796 Ventura Avenue in Santa Rosa. [11] Her checkbook was deposited in a drive-up mailbox across from the Kentfield, California Post Office sometime on the morning of March 24, 1972, 20 days after she was murdered. But when their parents returned at 11 p.m., the girls werent waiting as theyd promised. Police learned from Jeannettes roommate Nora Morales that the Jeanette often hitchhiked 16 kilometers (10 mi) from her home in Cotati to her classes at Santa Rosa Junior College. It is . Lori had a history of running away, and it was believed she initially left of her own volition to stay with friends in Santa Rosa. Three days after Christmas 1972, their bones were found by two teenage hikers near Franz Valley Road. The Violent Crimes Unit (VCI) is comprised of One Detective Sergeant, and Four Detectives who investigate felony crimes against persons. [67], Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, Jr., the Hillside Stranglers of Los Angeles, were also considered suspects at one time. [8][9] Initially believed to be a suspect,[10] Burgess's DNA was tested, and did not match that left at the Jenner crime scene.[11]. The following month he was sentenced to serve three consecutive life terms without parole plus another 94 years in state prison for his crimes: the murders of Cutshall and Allen; the 2017 killing of his brother, Shamus Gallon; and an attempted murder in 2004 of a man in Monte Rio. On March 4, 1972, at 5:00 PM, Allen left her job at a health food store in Larkspur to attend a night class. [19] Police reported in 1975 that it was a rectangle connected to a square, with bars running along side constructed of twigs or sticks. Gallon had previously been arrested for the shooting death of his brother Shamus at their mother's home. Unlike the killers first two victims, Kim Wendy Allen was a teenager (19, to be exact) and a college student attending Santa Rosa Junior College. [2], Santa Rosa Junior College art student[8] Kim Wendy Allen, 19, was given a ride by two men on March 4, 1972,[7] from her job at Larkspur Natural Foods[9] to San Rafael. [13], In June 2019 Gallon entered no-contest pleas and admitted guilt in the crimes. The views expressed here are the author's own. Los Angeles's most famous murder, The Black Dahlia refers to Elizabeth Short, who was murdered in 1947. The crime remains unsolved, and the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office recently asked for the public's help identifying a suspect in the case. We uncover the best of the city and put it all in an email for you. [60] He pleaded guilty on March 14, 1975, and was imprisoned at Atascadero State Hospital until late 1977. The girl, who fit Kursas description, appeared to be physically impaired in some manner, as the two men were supporting her between them. [4] An autopsy found that Davis had an injury to her right earlobe that appeared to be an attempted ear piercing. before heading to Jenner", "SONOMA COUNTY / Weapon IDd, but not found, in Jenner slayings / Officials say couple killed with Marlin hunting rifle", "DNA test for man eyed in Jenner beach slayings", "DNA doesn't implicate man in Jenner killing", "Tantalizing clues in pair's slaying / Sonoma County sheriff releases evidence that he hopes will stir people's memories in killing of 2 vacationing campers on secluded beach", "Sonoma County survivalist charged with mysterious killings on Jenner beach", Sonoma County Sheriff's Department's Jenner Homicide Investigation Update May 2006, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Jenner,_California,_double_murder&oldid=1111203479, 3 life terms w/o parole (consecutive) + 94 years, This page was last edited on 19 September 2022, at 20:57. Daviss cause of death proved to be unusual, for she had died of a strychnine overdose approximately ten to 14 days before her bodys discovery. She had also been bound in the same manner as Walsh.[2]. Some investigators also rule Bundy out as a suspect because they think the killer probably lived in the Santa Rosa area and only a local man, perhaps someone who worked as a mail carrier or a public utility worker, would have been familiar with the remote, rural locations where the victims were recovered. This case is further proof that the men and women of the Sheriff's Office will never give up in protecting our community and seeking justice for crime victims. According to Robert Graysmith in his book Zodiac Unmasked, Manallis belongings had included pictures of himself as Freda, a lock of hair in his wallet, and letters outlining his interests in sex slavery and large-breasted women.[4]. The . (Gallon in fact led them to a soda can with the two bullit casings). The sheriff pegged it as an obvious suicide, even though the dead guy didn't seem troubled and was about to take a walk along the railroad tracks with his brother and niece. She visited her grandmother in Garberville, California in early July 1973 and spent about two weeks with her before she decided to leave again. [5], On July 16, 2009, a 62-year-old drifter named Joseph Henry Burgess was killed in a shoot-out in the remote Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. She was carrying the barrel, which had red Chinese characters on it, when she was last seen hitchhiking near a ramp to northbound Highway 101 in San Rafael. A young woman named "Lisa Smith", which is a common name, was hitchhiking on March 26, 1971 and was picked up by a male driver. Somewhere there was a piece to this to put it together, but somehow you just can't seem to find it.. They did not tell her brother that Graham was missing until they saw him in person years later. Her killer was never caught. 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