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Los Angeles: 1922-02-01: Director of 59 silent films shot in the back at his apartment, unsolved, subject of frenzy of sensationalist press coverage [154] 3: Murder of Marion Parker: Los Angeles: 1927-12-17: 12-year-old girl abducted and murdered, billed as "the most horrible crime of the 1920s" by the Los Angeles Times [155] [156] 4: Brooke ...
Patricia Dianne Krenwinkel (born December 3, 1947) is an American convicted murderer and former member of the Manson Family.On August 9, 1969, Patricia Krenwinkel, Tex Watson, and Susan Atkins murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, and Steven Parent at 10050 Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles.
Patricia Stallings (born 1964 or 1965) is an American woman who was wrongfully convicted of murder after the death of her son Ryan on September 7, 1989. Because testing seemed to indicate an elevated level of ethylene glycol in Ryan's blood, authorities suspected antifreeze poisoning , and arrested Stallings the next day.
Patricia Ann Mann, the youngest of four children, was a nursing student from Sanford, doing her residential training at Watts Hospital in Durham. Jesse Allen McBane was a North Carolina State University athletic student from Pittsboro in his freshman year.
Prosecutors believed the motive was that the defendant murdered the victim to steal her baby as an elaborate plan for the defendant to keep her boyfriend after she lied about being pregnant herself. [72] Darlie Routier: Routier was convicted in the 1996 stabbing of her two young sons, Damon and Devon. Routier herself sustained a number of wounds.
One family from Los Angeles had arrived at the campground at 5 pm that day. [26] While walking in the park that evening, they witnessed two men and a woman parking nearby in a pickup truck; the father recalled: "They acted like they were waiting for us to leave, and frankly, they made us nervous—so we moved on." [26]
Work she did on the DNA found on Jill Barcomb, believed to have been killed by the Hillside Strangler, revealed instead that she was a victim of Rodney Alcala. This serial killer was active around the same time in the Los Angeles area; he was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death in 2010. [43]
The shooter's former wife, Michelle Fournier, one of the employees at the salon, was one of the victims. [11] The suspect in the shooting, named by police as 41-year-old [ 12 ] Scott Evans Dekraai of Huntington Beach, California , was arrested without incident after being stopped while driving a white pickup truck about one half-mile (0.8 km ...