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. He had information about the killings that no other person could have known and we have located evidence that corroborates his information. A Pan Am airplane named "The Romance of the Skies" took off from SFO in 1957 but never arrived in Hawaii as scheduled. 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. In the 1970s the murder of eight young women, hitchhiking in rural parts of Sonoma County broke the hearts of thousands and continues to torment the community to this day. (This is a really good theory.) But several cold cases still remain unsolved. The girls told their friend that they were going to hitchhike to a party in Santa Rosa but did not say who they were meeting. [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. 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. [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. [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. This unidentified victim had been hog-tied, with the killers rope looped around the womans throat. 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 Three days before Christmas 1973, Therese attempted to hitchhike from Malibu up to Garberville, where her 2-year-old child and extended family lived. [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. The coroner determined she died of strychnine poisoning. In early January, about 30 people attended a memorial walk in Petaluma for Georgia Lee Moses, who was murdered in 1997 when she was 12 years old. The friend said someone else they knew had seen the girls hitchhiking at a Chevron gas station in Forestville. The broken neck would have prevented Kursa from moving, but it would have taken some time for her to die from the injury. [32] Authorities now believe that Lisa Smith was never found and that the woman also known as "Lisa Smith" was a different woman who had been incorrectly identified as the missing adolescent. No known connection to him between Lindsay Cutshall or Jason Allen has been uncovered yet either. [1][64] A 2011 San Francisco Chronicle article noted that the dates of the credit card receipts show there would have been enough time for Bundy to drive to California, commit the crimes, and then drive back to Washington. Graham was reportedly reported missing on Christmas Eve that year. Lisa Michele Smith, 17, was last seen hitchhiking on Hearn Avenue in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, California and her disappearance was never solved. I'd like to read a statement from Bob and Delores Allen and Chris and Kathy Cutshall: "We are extremely pleased that our children's murderer is in custody where he belongs. The driver was a Caucasian man with an Afro-type hairstyle. Jeannette Kamahele, a 20-year-old Santa Rosa Junior College student,[33] was last seen on April 25, 1972, hitchhiking near the Cotati on-ramp of Highway 101. Each of the women and girls were killed somewhere else and dumped around Santa Rosa. We will remove any comments or commenters that do not follow this commenting policy. Type: Murder Victim Date: 5/18/2002 Name: Carol Guillen Sex: F Eyes: Brown Hair: Black Race: Hispanic Vehicle: Black, 1999 Honda Civic, 4-door, CA License # 4FSG574 Reward: $5,000. I wish I could name them all, but there are too many to list. She was last seen with friends in Santa Rosa on the day of her disappearance. The Bay Area, while truly wonderful, is also the sad hometo our fare share of high-profile and terrifying crimes. Crime app could shed new. From Fatty Arbuckle's notorious sexual assault scandal at the St. Francis Hotel in 1921 to the 1974 kidnapping of heiress Patty Hearst, there's a dark side to San Francisco. Then someone killed him, An SF man was found dead in his locked home. The unsolved San Francisco killing of one of the world's greatest chefs. [61], Robert Graysmith, in his book Zodiac Unmasked, claims that a Sonoma County sheriff revealed that chipmunk hairs were found on all of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker victims and that Allen had been collecting and studying the same species. A mate to the earring was not found at the scene. [7] Someone reported possibly seeing Kursa hitchhiking on November 30. All were . For a time, serial killer Ted Bundy was suspected of carrying out a few of the Santa Rosa murders. She was treated at Novato General Hospital for a skull fracture and multiple, severe cuts and bruises. 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Lori Lee Kursa, Carolyn Davis, Maureen Sterling, Therese Walsh, Kim Wendy Allen and Yvonne Weber, the victims of the Santa Rosa hitchhiker murderer. It's a pretty accurate portrayal of events and was shot locally. The sheriff's office said that anyone with information about Georgia's murder should call 707-565-2185 or submit a tip at www.sonomasheriff.org/silent-witness. 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. [60] He pleaded guilty on March 14, 1975, and was imprisoned at Atascadero State Hospital until late 1977. We uncover the best of the city and put it all in an email for you. Benjamin Welton is a West Virginia native currently living in Boston. The cause of death could not be determined. Sergeant Crum has that picture for those who want it and it will be posted at the end of this press conference. 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. She jumped out of the pickup, which was going about 55 miles per hour south of Novato, California. the deaths never accounted for or answered for, justice elusive. 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]. No off-topic remarks. week. Most Popular. The bodies of the slain couple were not discovered until Wednesday, August 18, when the Sheriff's helicopter was dispatched following a report of a man who was stranded on a cliff above Fish Head Beach. 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. Some of the oldest unsolved murders on Uncovered 's cold case website include the 1960 murder of Nancy Eagleson, the 1977 murder of Ann Harmeier, the 1977 murder of Roberta Elam, the 1982 murder of Tina Foglia, the 1980 murder of Eve Wilkowitz, and the 1984 murder of Laura Parker. 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. [2], The cause of her death was a broken neck with compression and hemorrhage of the spinal cord. [1] [4] Both girls, like other young people in that era, often hitchhiked. Kim went missing on March 4, 1972. A second caller reported seeing a girl with a Caucasian man who had bushy hair in a pickup truck that had been parked near the site where Kursa was later found deceased. ", "Secret Witness - Officials seek killer of woman", https://www.santarosahitchhikermurders.com/articles/davis/strychnine_killed_caroline.pdf, "Is he Zodiak? And when we at times wondered if this day would ever come, the detectives in particular wouldn't allow us to lose hope. Dear Mom, it read. [10] The two men who gave her a ride, one of whom was given and passed a polygraph test, were ruled out as suspects. Her headstone reads: "Beloved daughter and mother.". Theresa Diane Smith Walsh, 23, of Miranda,[21] was last seen on December 22, 1973, at Zuma Beach in Malibu, intent on hitchhiking to Garberville and joining her family for Christmas. According to Yvonnes stepfather, Santa Rosa police insisted the young pair were willing runaways. Unsolved Murder; Police Chases: San Rafael & Nearby Crime Log - San Rafael, CA - A look at some of this week's police, fire and courtroom incidents from around Marin County and across the North Bay. Most importantly I want to thank the Cutshall and Allen families, who have consistently been supportive and patient during this 13 year investigation. She posted a letter to her parents shortly after she ran away in which she wrote that she had left voluntarily and never planned to return home. 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 discovered in a park in Los Angeles and her death has been publicized repeatedly, mostly because of how particularly gruesome the murder was. The VCI unit is responsible for the investigation of a wide variety of serious incidents including assaults, robberies, kidnapping, weapons violations, missing persons and hate crimes. Other investigators later cast doubt on the meaning of the twig figure and whether it had any connection to the girls murder. Then someone killed him. She told her grandmother that she planned to hitch hike to Modesto, California and stay there with friends. 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. Earlier that day, shed made a trip to San Franciscos Chinatown to buy a wooden soy sauce barrel. The cause of her death was strychnine poisoning 10 to 14 days before discovery. Kims body was found the next day on Enterprise Road near Glen Ellen. No clothing was found, so it was assumed they had been nude when they were left about 66 feet from the road. He died in December 2021 at the California Department of Corrections Medical Facility in Vacaville, where he was serving a life sentence for attempted murder. A pathologist determined her probable date of death was July 20, 1973, five days after her grandmother had last seen her. Smiths disappearance was reported on March 28, 1971, and as of this writing, her body has never been found. This is a list of notable male murderers who committed their murders in California, USA. Eureka/Humbold Over the past half-century several unsolved murders have haunted the North Coast. February 4, 1972, proved to be a tragic day in Sonoma County, California. [7] Her partially submerged body was found six days later by kayakers in Mark West Creek. [6] It could not be conclusively proven whether or not Davis had been raped. No off-topic remarks. Hard contact lenses were not often sold in the United States and Canada after the mid-1970s, when soft contact lenses became available. Bundy was executed in 1989 after being convicted of murdering two women and a 12-year-old girl in Florida. Her body was found on Dec. 14 in a ravine 50 feet off Calistoga Road in Santa Rosa. She had also been bound in the same manner as Walsh.[2]. The girl, who fit Kursas description, appeared to be physically impaired in some manner, as the two men were supporting her between them. BRUTAL CRIME MAY . Trimble had also told her mother she intended to do some Christmas shopping at Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa. On March 4, 1972, at 5:00 PM, Allen left her job at a health food store in Larkspur to attend a night class. (Gallon in fact led them to a soda can with the two bullit casings). [4] Markings at the top of the embankment and a possible leg impression in the loam indicated the assailant likely slipped or fell while throwing or transporting the body. February 23, 2018. Gallon is well known to Sheriff's Office Investigators, and early on in the Jenner murder investigation Gallon was a person of interest who detectives never ruled out as a possible suspect. The nature of this evidence has not been released by the authorities. The case of the Zodiac Killer remains open in the North Bay, and local authorities still get regular calls with tips and clues from amateur sleuths. The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders remain some of the Bay Area's most baffling unsolved crimes. Her captor or captors left her by the side of the road. The North Carolina native had just moved to Oakland and taken a job at a San Francisco coffee shop when she disappeared in 1997. Gallon had previously been arrested for the shooting death of his brother Shamus at their mother's home. To all who have worked this case over the years, we can't thank you enough . Homicide detectives from the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department launched an investigation into the deaths. She had been strangled by her killer a week before her bodys discovery. She was due to start a photography class at UC Berkeley the next day. [2] A possible witness to her abduction later came forward stating that on an evening somewhere between December 3 and 9, 1972, while on Parkhurst Drive, he saw two men walking with a young girl. A theory proposed by Mashable says that the coins are actually the haul from a 1901 robbery at the San Francisco Mint. [3], Kerry Ann Graham, 15, and Francine Marie Trimble, 14, of Forestville, disappeared in mid-December 1978. Her grandmother drove the 15-year-old girl to the downtown district of Garberville on July 15, 1973, and parked in front of the post office, which was located two city blocks away from Highway 101. Jamie founded Listverse due to an insatiable desire to share fascinating, obscure, and bizarre facts. Last week Shaun Michael Gallon, the Forestville felon named more than a year ago as the lone suspect in the 2004 Jenner Beach shooting deaths of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen, was formally charged by Sonoma County prosecutors marking a milestone in a shocking case of violence that vexed sheriff's detectives for years. Sheriff's Office detectives are continuing to follow-up on leads and are working hard to complete the investigation. ", I will now take some questionsand while I want to be as transparent as possible, please understand that I don't want to jeopardize the continued investigation and prosecution of this case, so I will not be answering any questions that might disclose information that should be saved for the courtroom. To request removal of your name from an arrest report, submit these required items to arrestreports@patch.com. 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. A number of high-profile 1970s serial killers were probed for links to the Bay Area murders. She was so full of life, her grief-stricken mother told local newspapers. All of the victims were found nude in rural areas near steep embankments or in creek beds near roads. 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. Unsolved deaths in Napa County 1963: Doreen Heskett 1969: Celia Shephard 1974: Deborah Beltz; Robert Turchin 1975: Maxine Brewer 1976: Alvin Maddux and Faye Maddux; Elaine Lehtinen 1977:. Arthur Leigh Allen, the man who Graysmith believes was the Zodiac Killer, has also been named as a possible suspect. Read More . The weapon used was a .45-caliber Marlin Model 1894 long rifle, either a long colt style, or a carbine magazine. 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. Known collectively as the Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders, this string of unsolved murders continues to haunt the minds of the Golden States cold case investigators. [1] Resslers in-depth penetration into the minds of sexual sociopaths lead him to become the worlds foremost expert on murder. Police wanted to know how the hat and beer bottle came to be in the places they were found. At least it should be. Graham was recovering from surgery to remove her appendix but had left the antibiotics she was still taking behind at her home. 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. Police also learned that an eyewitness had seen Jeanette getting into a brown Chevrolet pickup truck. Cold Case Unit Investigates Unsolved Deaths, Source: Napa County Cold Case Investigation Unit, Viva Mariachi! They planned to marry in autumn of 2004. [23] High water marks contemporaneous with heavy rains in the area suggested the body could have drifted several miles. She was last seen alive on December 22, 1973, at Zuma Beach in the tiny resort town of Malibu, California. [2] Her home life was troubled and she was a frequent hitchhiker and habitual runaway. Trimbles mother had seen the girls at her home sometime on December 15, 1978 and Grahams sister recalled seeing them at her parents home either on December 15 or 16, 1978. In fact, a suspect was identified, but three key witnesses refused to come forward for fear of outing themselves as gay. Beyond this highly circumstantial evidence, there was nothing to tie Manalli to any of the murders in Santa Rosa. For that reason, we are releasing a photo of Shaun Gallon. On that day, two middle school students, Maureen Sterling (left above) and Yvonne Weber (right above), went missing. This is a family newspaper, please use a kind and respectful tone. The case has received considerable national attention, but the crime remained unsolved, until news given at a press conference on May 5, 2017, suggesting that authorities had solved the crime. 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. She was discovered wedged under a log; investigators believed it was possible she had floated several miles downstream from the initial dump site, as it had rained heavily in recent days. However, Trimble had been prescribed some medication following the removal of her appendix, and she had left this medication in her room on the day of her disappearance. We have appreciated your support for this case throughout our thirteen-year ordeal. Dj vu! The Sheriff's Office has identified Shaun Gallon, a 38 year old resident of Forestville, California, as Jason and Lindsay's killer. The strong support for us and for the case by the former sheriff, Sheriff Cogbill, and the current sheriff, Sheriff Freitas, has been outstanding. The killer had thrown the body at least 30 feet (9.1m) over an embankment. The vehicle then sped north on Calistoga Road. Graham and Trimble, who had been associating with classmates who used drugs, had gone to school that day but did not attend classes. There was one other odd clue left behind by the murderer: Kims body had traces of a greasy residue. No definitive links were ever made. More recently, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office announced it was looking into Jack Alexander Bokin; Bokin was linked to a cold case murder in 1996 with new DNA technology. Kursas body showed no signs of sexual assault. In 2019 Shaun Gallon was sentenced to life in prison for the murders. 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. [22] She had been hogtied with clothesline rope, sexually assaulted, and strangled, and was determined to have been dead approximately one week. Graysmith noted that some of the Zodiacs later letters contained Chinese-like characters similar to the ones found on the barrel carried by Kim Allen on the day of her death. Dental records were not a match, however, and Jeannettes body has never been found. Like all of the others, she had been unceremoniously dumped into a ravine. No additional information will be released at this time.. 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