The Marine captain seemed an unlikely suspect. Last year, both parents died, one two weeks after the other. In Santa Barbara, California, the fascinating and tumultuous life of the rich Capwells around who gravitate other families, from the Lockridges, the rival family, to the Andrades or the Perkins, more modest families but which destinies know the same torments. A front-page photo in the Jan. 24, 1983, Santa Barbara News-Press showed Laura's car marooned with its roof torn open. Gray chased after him and shot him. Barry, who owned a sailboat and sometimes navigated the Pacific coastline, talked about sailing alone to New Zealand. Higher education no longer denoted a member of a parasitic class. When Glancey said he had, Gray pulled out a pistol and tried to shoot him. In a 2008 blog post, Courtney said their mother, Nancy Berchtold Haobsh, 55, had died from lymphatic cancer. Their deaths are tragic and mysterious. Unlike some herbalists and acupuncture practitioners who saw themselves as distinct from traditional Western medicine, he practiced an East-West blend of practices. Henry Han originally opened his clinic in the Lobero Building in downtown Santa Barbara and subsequently at its current location behind Chucks steak house on upper State Street. A lot of suffering patients will be without their Henry, said Cathy McNease, an herbalist and acupuncturist who worked with Han in the early 1990s. Dust-covered and sweaty, she recalls, He was super nervous. Police also believe he was responsible for a slew of burglaries in neighborhoods where the rapes occurred. This put wealthy, beautiful Santa Barbara in the crosshairs of the emerging homeless rights movement. His redemption was the stuff of much media coverage. He told the Santa Barbara News-Press that he feared Barry and Louise had been abducted while hunting artifacts. Make it a habit to search newspaper archives whenever you add someone to your family tree. Trailers housed permanent residents, including Chili Bob, the campground host, and Major Tom Ganner, now a glacier guide and photographer in Alaska. Like Barry, she was a rebel. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. Nadine came from a traditional Circassian-Middle Eastern family, reads her online biography. Thor Nis Christiansen (28 December 1957 30 March 1981) was a Danish-American serial killer and necrophile from Solvang, California. But for the longest time, the killer has gotten away with it. If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. The second trial ended in a conviction and a 20-year sentence, but the verdict was overturned when it came out that the jurors had sequestered themselves with 20 gallons of beer, three bottles of wine, and an indeterminate quantity of whiskey. With an eerie noir atmosphere, Shorts murder became a popular subject of books and films, and it even inspired the name of a heavy metal band. The next morning, four of those students reported the crime to police, turning over the perpetrators bloodstained clothes as evidence. Over time, Hans practice grew. In an online video, retired Sacramento County Sheriffs Department detective Ray Biondi said he regrets not being able to solve the crimes. She miraculously survived. Mannings co-workers at a child abuse hotline were shocked to learn of her death. Zemaitis mother waited on her occasionally at the diner. But as retired deputy Boyer recently said, it's not that unusual for people to take off into the desert and never come back.. When something comes up, I always want to help.. At the time, he was described as a white male with blond hair and in good physical condition, articulate, well dressed, and clean-cut. The last attack was in 1986,. Within two, the symptoms were all but gone. Carlson was convinced. CBD is also found in marijuana, but in hemp, the levels of THCthe compound that gets users stonedare sufficiently low enough to be legal in the United States. In 1874, when Judge Pablo de la Guerra died, Gray was one of 12 pallbearers who carried the coffin through a crowd of 2,000 mourners. He was also dubbed the Original Night Stalker (not to be confused with now-deceased Night Stalker serial killer Richard Ramirez), because his crimes typically occurred early in the morning. When State Supreme Court stopped the election, Theodore Glancey, the new Press editor, celebrated: The nomination was disgraceful in every respect, he wrote, relieved that the good people of Santa Barbara would not endure the administration of justice by hoodlums and law-breakers., Journalism at that time was not for the faint of heart, but there was nothing fainthearted about Glancey. The following day, he was charged with the attempted murder of Lydia Preston. Fiesta was just around the corner, but a new hot-button issue had just landed in Santa Barbara. According to 73-year-old Lee Gnesa, a childhood friend, Domingos was dating Edwards at the time and they were most likely going to get married right out of high school. [10], On December 26, 1979, Christiansen entered a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity," in addition to his previous "not guilty" plea. She was shot twice in the head, sometime in April. It was the last time they were seen alive. The late summer of 1988 brought flash flooding to Saline Valley. The young men were jacked out of their minds on adrenaline, testosterone, and hyperactive fantasies of revenge. He married an American citizen, but the marriage didnt last. Lucas, Mottweiler, Ganner and the hiker drove up the Corridor for miles, beyond where most of the searching took place in 1986. He finally settled on murder. The buyer, Mollie Purnell, bought the firearm at a gun store in San Leandro, California. I checked her out, of course, he says. [2], Christiansen's modus operandi was to pick up hitchhikers, shoot them in the head with a .22 caliber pistol, and sexually assault them post-mortem. It was always in the back of my mind. By 20, Yanikian had seen thousands of dead Armenians26 bodies were members of his own family. Like many familiar with herbal cures, Han understood hemp plants contain psychoactively inert chemicals known as cannabidiols, or CBDs. Barry and Louise had strong spiritual grounding 'what has to be has to be,' recalls Ray Castellino, a Santa Barbara natural health care practitioner. Search the newspapers of all the areas you know they lived or spent time in for things such as work or school. They were the nicest young people you could ever meet in your life, Gnesa said. I could feel the energy of their spirits, Margolis tells the Weekly now. Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Noozhawk is a founding member of the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers . Dad did research and called the FBI, but they never called back, Zemaitis told the Sun. Santa Barbara area voters defeated it by a wide margin. Once, he recalls how Domingos had a brush with death when he accidentally shot himself in the lip with a .22 bullet, the same kind of gun that would end his life just a few years later. He and his wife, Ruth, were so desperate that they enlisted psychic Char Margolis, known for her appearances on Regis Philbin's TV show AM Los Angeles. Today, the cliffside cottages are owned by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but long ago the land was home to Chumash Indians. He was held in a Santa Barbara County jail on $500,000 bond. The next year, on July 19, 1987, a sheriff's spokesman told the News-Press, We believe the Bermans were the victims of foul play [but] we have absolutely no motive, and don't, in fact, have any evidence of a crime.. Their wrists were bound with drapery cord using a diamond knot, and the suspect also became known as The Diamond Knot Killer. She had joined Radha Soami, and at a satsang meeting she mentioned she needed a place to live. He killed at least eight women and men in Santa Barbara, Ventura and . Peter Cacavas . Theyve entered the annals of American crime lore, and have been the subject of Hollywood movies, countless books and articles, and the obsessions of numerous sleuths whove attempted to solve the crimes. His political reporting was said to be terse, pointed, and fearless., In hindsight, it seems inevitable that Glancey and Gray would come to blows. In his possession was a loaded 9mm and property that detectives believe belonged to the Hans, said Brown. During the tumultuous and freewheeling years of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the San Francisco Bay Area, a killer emerged. Bringing together non-profits with an audience of affluent donors. The NCIS, the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office and Inyo County Sheriff's Office all knew and shared with one another the fact that Pepe had been the key suspect in an old double murder, but they never went public with it. More victims followed. Startled by the arrival of Tramel and Kurtzman, Stevenson sat up, startling Kurtzman. Yanikian was found guilty of murder and received a life sentence. Lucas found the skull jauntily arranged atop a picnic table with flowers in its eye sockets and a patch of moss for a hairpiece. In them, hed take credit for murders and taunt police. Santa Barbara may be paradise, but its inhabitants have been killing each other in ways mundane and spectacular since the days of Adam and Eve. On January 19, 1979, Patricia Laney, 21, was found shot to death, the day after she was reported missing, in Refugio Canyon near Santa Barbara. The colleagues found the front door ajar and Han and Yus cars parked in the garage; they called 9-1-1, and dispatchers requested the welfare check that led authorities to the crime scene. Three couples were attacked in remote locations, either shot or stabbed, and in all but one case, only the female victims died. The ammunition, Winchester Western Super X copper-coated bullets, matched the bullets used in the other Zodiac murders. Did the Zodiac Killer strike in Santa Barbara County? But when the two got back to their dorm, Tramel bragged to other students: We bagged a Mexican. When no one believed him, Tramel led them to the scene. In fact, Han personally intervened to help Relis and his wife adopt a baby girl from China 19 years ago. His student visa expired. On the witness stand, Tramel expressed shock and horror at Kurtzmans sudden savagery. For them, Han provided a one-two punch of psychological comfort and medical relief. All of the murders have either occurred here or their victims were somehow connected to Santa Barbara County. During his trial, Yanikian sought to represent himself as a philosopher king. For a while, Han worked with an herbal practitioner named Jean Yu, owner of the Herb Clinic. No one saw Barry and Louise that day. [9], On July 27, 1979, after interviewing over 115 persons over the previous two years, Christiansen was arrested for the murders of Patricia Laney, Jacqueline Rook, and Mary Sarris. Gray moved to San Francisco, but the cataclysmic fire of 1906 destroyed his health, and he died in Sacramento one year later. It was surreal, she recalls. State and federal authorities interviewed hundreds of people, but no evidence has ever conclusively linked any suspects. He eventually was turned over to U.S. agents and flown to Los Angeles to stand trial committing a sex crime against a minor anywhere in the world is a federal offense. Instead, Yanikian yanked out his Luger, secreted in a hollowed-out copy of Whos Who in the West, and fired nine rounds at the diplomats. Neither Frederick Smith nor Courtney responded to questions from The Santa Barbara Independent. Christiansen also said he killed his victims, took them to a secluded place, unclothed them, and sexually explored their bodies. Barry and Louise came together in Santa Barbara in the 1980s through the same guru master. Han, his older sister, and his parents were exiled to a re-education camp in the rural outposts of western China. While a candidate, President Trump had bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. He had invited them to reclaim a painting stolen from the Turkish sultanate more than 100 years ago. Gray was tried three times on murder chargesbut each time, he got off. Soon buttons began appearing bearing the words: Oh no, my friend, oh no.. It made me upset. While Barry Berman gravitated in the 1960s and '70s toward the counterculture, his dad was making enemies with the Sierra Club by destroying forestland to build a golf course. I have a shotgun ready for the day I find out whoever may have done this.. Eckstein, Harriet, Santa Barbara Independent, 1996. Gnesa was a part of the party that found the bodies of Domingos and Edwards. At his home in Carpinteria, Korb recalls telling Barry, Man, you've got to check this out., The stark desert site where the Bermans' remains were found; Credit: Photo by Doug Kari. He was very smug., Some of Barry and Louise's fellow spiritualists believe that, in the truest sense, they are still alive. The man known as Mike the Marine also went off and, upon his return to the springs later that day, gave one female camper the creeps by asking if she was interested in threesomes. He was taken into custody at gunpoint without incident. For me, they were not really human. The two investigators pressed him, and Pepe eventually said, Oh hell, I might have gone to the peace [sign] that day. Pepe said he didn't remember if he was on foot or in his truck, saying, I think I went off um checking up whatever area it was., Deputy Leon Boyers sketch of Mike the Marine; Credit: Photo by Doug Kari, Asked if he'd brought up the idea of a threesome at the camp, he responded, I do recall conversations like that coming up., An investigator said, Perhaps you had put feelers out towards the Bermans to see if they would be willing to participate in such an activity? The Marine responded, I don't think that's true.. Have you ever felt a knife go through a human head?, In his confession, Kurtzman talked about flashes in his head, blood pulsing in his ears, and panic that gang members were crawling into the gazebo. In January 1983, as an Alaskan storm pounded California, Louise's daughter, Laura, 19 and pretty like her mother, decided to drive her VW fastback up the mountain to see her mom. Massacres do not form a defense, Minier told the judge. He moved out of his parents' house, dropped out of school, and began working as a gas station attendant. Ive used Henry as my primary care physician ever since.. With philanthropist Kit Tremaines support, the homeless people of Santa Barbara became one of the best organized in the country. By injecting skin cells obtained through stem-cell harvesting into the cosmetics, Han believed it was possible to repair and replace damaged tissue. Creators Bridget Dobson Jerome Dobson Stars A Martinez Marcy Walker Nancy Lee Grahn On May 26, 1979, the decomposed body of Laura Benjamin, 22, was found in a drainage culvert near Big Tujunga Dam. Police found the murdered couple's grave nearby they were buried atop one another. [1] The murder is still unsolved. Two million words I have written, and nobody pays attention, Yanikian testified during his trial. But his brutal murder at the hands of a cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School here on Aug. 4--the second killing of a transient here in nine months--has become a symbol in an ongoing battle . [14][3] But on April 16, 1980, Christiansen was found guilty of first-degree murder and assault, after a psychiatrist testified that Christiansen displayed some degree of "provisional planning. Han pursued both these projects on Wednesdays, the one day of the week he did not work at the Herb Clinic. He died the next day, lamenting: I am dying without seeing my dear little wife-girl.. Index includes name, sex, date and place of birth, date and county of death, father's last name, and mother's maiden name. Han graduated from medical school, and in the early 1980s he became aware that two post-graduate positions opened up at UCSBs psychology department. When Han, normally precise and punctual, did not show, the partners grew concerned. All this was just getting off the ground when Tramel and Kurtzman murdered Stephenson. In 1880, Gray again sought his partys nomination for District Attorney. Zodiackiller.com, however, points to another manRichard Gaikowski, a former Bay Area newspaper reporterwho died in 2004. As it turned out, the gun used in all three murders was a .38-caliber pistol (some sources say it was a .45-caliber gun) that had been purchased in October 1980. Wouldyou sign up for any of the relief plans for natural gas bills? I was messed up, he said, as tears formed in his eyes. In 1943, she was arrested in Santa Barbara for underage drinking and sent home to Massachusetts on a train. News: Los Padres National Forest controlled burns, The following article was posted on October 27th, 2016, in the Santa Maria Sun - Volume 17, Issue 34, The following articles were printed from Santa Maria Sun [santamariasun.com] - Volume 17, Issue 34. He had spent more than 20 years trying to make a Hollywood film depicting the Armenian genocidethree million dead, killed by the Turks in 1915. His dad, naturally, was going to develop it. David Kurtzman | Photo: Christopher Gardner, Blessed with a cheerful, open face and a mustache that would be the envy of any firefighter, Stephenson had been living rough in Santa Barbara for about three years. Powered by WordPress VIP. The paperunder a previous editorhad described Gray as a blatherskite and brazen-faced demagogue and hoodlum. In 1876, Gray beat up William Russell, editor of The Index, another publication, leaving his head a bloody mess. Memorials for family and friends who have lost family and friends to murder. She had been a community volunteer with organizations that advocated against violence to women. [3][4][5], Jacqueline Ann Rook In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. He said Jennie would bring Emily every week to eat at his Hollister Avenue restaurant. The charges drew global attention for the shocking crimes against little girls at his home in Phnom Penh. Not so much anymore. National homeless rights advocate Mitch Snyder vowed to wage a massive civil disobedience campaign in the city. Santa Barbara prosecutors Hilary Dozer and Ben Ladinig, public defenders Christine Voss and Mindi Boulet, and Deputy County Counsel Michelle Montezwho represents the Sheriffs Officewill return to court April 12. The notorious "Golden State Killer" was behind serial rapes and murders across California in the 1970s and 1980s -- but decades passed before a suspect was identified. By allowing himself to be arrestedhe immediately reported the crime to the hotels front deskhe hoped his trial would become an international showcase convicting Turkey of crimes against humanity. Hans mother encountered high rates of ovarian cancer in the women she treated, becoming a pioneering expert in the disease. The suspect was identified as Gabriel Jose Zepeda, a 46-year-old transient that was arrested without incident. For the past 30 years, Hana skilled, quietly charismatic, and by all accounts brilliant herbal doctorhad treated roughly 13,000 people, many confronting serious health challenges such as cancer, osteoporosis, and hepatitis. She had. He thinks Domingos may have known his killer. Nadine Courtney, a beauty blogger and former Newlyweds reality TV star, told the Associated Press via email Saturday that she is Haobshs sister. Recently, in the doorway of her desert trailer home, the woman told the Weekly that she saw Mike the Marine return down the Corridor in his pickup that afternoon. Although they began as roommates in Barry's seaside cottage, Korb recalls how one day he saw Louise playfully grab Barry's balls and realized that the two had become intimate. In an online video, retired Sacramento County Sheriffs Department detective Ray Biondi said he killed his victims, them! 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