Now, spurred by L.A. Weekly's three-month investigation into the double murders, and 17 years after family patriarch Jules Berman died, Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze has reactivated the troubling cold case. In the days after the Han familys death, family, friends, and patients have piled flowers and notes outside the clinic and below police tape still blocking off their home. That night, Stephenson was in his sleeping bag on the floor of the gazebo, listening to music on his boom box, when two 17-year-old military prep school studentsJames Tramel and David Kurtzmanstumbled upon him. 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. 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. Martinez hopes the incident will shed. Three couples were attacked in remote locations, either shot or stabbed, and in all but one case, only the female victims died. It took a few days for the killing to seep into Santa Barbaras collective consciousness. As Carlson, Relis, and Bardach tell it, Han was about 12 when doctors, intellectuals, and professionals were rounded up as part of Chinas now infamous Cultural Revolution. [13], Following a delay, on March 24, 1980, Christiansen withdrew his double plea in favor of a diminished capacity defense. Charges filed against Haobsh name special circumstancesincluding premeditation, lying in wait, and murder for financial gainwhich may make him eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without parole. Police found the murdered couple's grave nearby they were buried atop one another. the state of California in the 1970s and 1980s, killing at . Han had grown concerned Chinas intense pollution could prove deleterious to his plants and herbs. But Tramel asked: Have you ever killed a deer with your bare hands? Make it a habit to search newspaper archives whenever you add someone to your family tree. All rights reserved. When asked if he thinks the Zodiac is responsible, he said he doesnt believe it. She was a vagabond and lived in Vallejo, San Francisco, and Miami. . That they intended to bag a Mexican became utterly beside the point. Louise Berman turned 52 five days before she and her husband set out for the desert on Jan. 3, 1986. There is some doubt about this, since the Zodiac never took credit for the murders. In recent years, Han started branching out into new medical and business opportunities. Similar to some of the attacks on the couples in Vallejo and Napa, the killer forced one of his victims to bind the hands of the other with pre-cut lengths of narrow rope. Powered by WordPress VIP. . However, the victims, and their families, still await justice. Boyer, who pegged Mike the Marine as a likely suspect, drew a composite sketch of him and set out to find him. She had joined Radha Soami, and at a satsang meeting she mentioned she needed a place to live. A nightmare beyond a nightmare.. [5][9], On August 20, 1979, Christiansen was charged with the murder of Laura Benjamin. Unlike some herbalists and acupuncture practitioners who saw themselves as distinct from traditional Western medicine, he practiced an East-West blend of practices. Her death was by murder, as she had been stabbed multiple times in the face and once in the neck and later decapitated with the sawing motion of a blade. Last year, both parents died, one two weeks after the other. One lucky, FAMILY AFFAIR: INSIDE SNOOP DOGG AND HIS BOSS LADY, By continuing to use our site, you agree to our, Newsom Ends 3-Year COVID-19 State of Emergency In California, Vanessa Bryant And L.A. 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On September 25, 1880, Gray confronted Glancey on State Street, demanding to know if he had written the article condemning his nomination. Jim Zemaitis of Santa Maria-based Overland Security said his father, Bruno Zemaitis, a security guard and amateur sleuth, briefly investigated Shorts death. They were young adults who had dreams and aspirations. 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. Susan Pater, at her Southwest Portland home, holds a picture of her sister, Barbara Mae Tucker, who was murdered in 1980. He said he'd quit smoking, [but] he wanted to trade some canned goods for a pack of cigarettes., After the trio of dirt bikers returned, talk turned to the couple from Santa Barbara had anyone seen them that day? In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. In person, he radiated a calming clinical confidence. Soon after Yanikians conviction, 40 Turkish diplomats were gunned down around the world. The dirt bike riders cooperated with authorities and provided the Weekly with photos date-stamped Jan 1986 showing they rode the Corridor to Eureka Valley and back on Yamaha bikes that didn't have foot pegs to carry passengers. That was not something we were interested in. Her body was cut in half, drained of all its blood, and given a Glasgow smile, with her cheeks sliced open from ear-to-ear at the corners of her mouth. When funding for the movie deal collapseddone in, it would turn out, by actions of the State Department and the Shah of IranYanikian began searching for a Plan B. Domingos was three years older than him.His cousin said he looked up to Domingos. Over the years, roughly 79,967 of those murders were solved, leaving more than 48,000 unsolved murders in California. 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. 1980 in Ventura, when Charlene Smith, 33, and her husband Lyman . She was last seen on November 20, 1976. While some students basked together on the beach, Bobby Domingos and Linda Edwards instead went to a different beach by themselves. When asked whether he could hear from his position behind protective glass, he said, Yes, I can. When asked if, at prosecutors request, he agreed to postpone his arraignment by two weeks, he said, Yes, I do.. For the first time in 35 years, Congress has just now passed a resolution acknowledging the genocide of the Armenians. Their wrists were bound with drapery cord using a diamond knot, and the suspect also became known as The Diamond Knot Killer. On June 18, 1980, Christiansen was sentenced to life in a maximum security prison. Michael Joseph Pepe handcuffed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Credit: AP Photo/Heng Sinith. They were bound for the hot springs in Saline Valley, 50 miles from the nearest pavement and long a popular Mojave Desert draw for nudists and eccentrics. On the 35th anniversary of Morgan's disappearance, the FBI Most Wanted Twitter page posted an alert seeking information with a $25,000 reward for this unsolved murder. Thirty-six hours later, detectives developed leads that implicated Pierre Haobsh, an Oceanside resident and a business acquaintance of Han, in the murders, which authorities say were motivated by financial gain. Haobsh was recently involved in a business transaction with Mr. Han, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a Friday briefing. But Barry was repulsed by his dad's money and wanted to go the other way, recalls Brent Lieberman, a teenage buddy, now a surf photographer in Santa Barbara. If anyone has new information about the murder, not previously reported to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, please contact Lt. Eric Koopmans, at (805) 681-4100, between 8:00 am. Haobshs arraignment was postponed due to Dozer, Ladinig, and Montez taking issue with the Public Defenders Office having obtained a weekend order from Judge James Herman to meet with Haobsh in County Jail before he had requested an attorney. An Eagle Scout, he had told Tramel earlier that night that he knew about gutting a deer. After serving nine years in prison, he was transferred to a care facility, a sick old man. She had. Fingerprint records discovered by detectives showed that she had applied for work at the commissary at Camp Cooke, which is now Vandenberg Air Force Base, according to Zemaitis. Zemaitis mother waited on her occasionally at the diner. His bail is set at $1,000,000. And the forensics team found an item of spine-chilling significance: a handcuff key. Described as argumentatively gifted, Glancey was a radical Republican, a strict abolitionist, and an even stricter teetotaler. 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. It has yet to be approved by the Senate, however, and no voteas yethas been scheduled. Christiansen was a good student until his junior year of high school, when he began neglecting his schoolwork. Han pursued both these projects on Wednesdays, the one day of the week he did not work at the Herb Clinic. They wanted to be found. At her urging, the sheriff's office redoubled its search around the peace sign and the Corridor. It focused on the citys ordinance against camping or sleeping outside. 101 Near La Cumbre, Housing Challenge Intensifies Between Goleta and County of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbaras New DA Gets $500,000 for Racial Disparity Analytics, Lake Cachuma Releases Expected to Contribute to Flooding in Lompoc, Giant Eucs Down at Santa Barbaras Shoreline Park, Investigation Launched After Student Is Sedated, Arrested, Isla Vista Man Charged with 26 Counts of Illegal Electronic Peeping, An evening with Peter White and Richard Elliot, Dos Pueblos Jazz Festival Jazz in Paradise, Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Dan Lucas from the Inyo County Sheriff's Office began scouring the area. Michael Stephensons body was found in the gazebo at Alameda Park, where he had been stabbed 16 times and had his throat cut with sufficient force to sever his spinal cord. Han, he said, ran a lab in Los Angeles in hopes of catching this Holy Grail. Eventually, they worked things out. Words were exchanged. On May 26, 1979, the decomposed body of Laura Benjamin, 22, was found in a drainage culvert near Big Tujunga Dam. He marked the spot with a cairn and carried the skull to camp. He became so brazen with his reputation that the Golden State Killer taunted the public in a poem he sent to Sacramento-area news outlets. 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. 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.. He finally settled on murder. They are still loved. 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. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! The Weekly has learned what three law enforcement agencies have kept to themselves for years: that the former Marine officer, now serving 210 years in federal prison, is Mike the Marine, a desert camper who was extensively questioned in the 1980s and viewed by local police as the prime suspect after Barry and Louise Berman were killed. He didnt get upset by excitable, agitated, difficult patients. Above Lower Springs, about a dozen campers orbited the less-developed Palm Spring oasis. The suspect was identified as Gabriel Jose Zepeda, a 46-year-old transient that was arrested without incident. In a 2008 blog post, Courtney said their mother, Nancy Berchtold Haobsh, 55, had died from lymphatic cancer. -1 Likes, 0 Comments - Santa Barbara HS Young Life (@sbdonsyounglife) on Instagram: "MURDER MYSTERY CLUB TONIGHT!!! Last Wednesday, Hahn had an appointment to meet his partners in one of these ventures. [6], Mary Ann Sarris Barry and Louise came together in Santa Barbara in the 1980s through the same guru master. He looked for signers named Mike and found one who'd written down his address at a Marine Corps base. I have a shotgun ready for the day I find out whoever may have done this.. Much of her whereabouts from this time until her death are shrouded in mystery. Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher was murdered during the UC Santa Barbara shooting massacre, sat down with Peter Rodger, the father of the gunman. Nearly three years after Barry and Louise Berman vanished, setting off one of the most elaborate searches of its era, the couple's bleached bones and bits of clothing were discovered after a desert hiker spotted a skull, uncovered by heavy rains. Friends of his lived in the other cottages, including jewelry maker Arthur Korb and healer Mary Sullivan, all disciples of the same guru master. He told the Santa Barbara News-Press that he feared Barry and Louise had been abducted while hunting artifacts. Nadine Courtney, a beauty blogger and former Newlyweds reality TV star, told the Associated Press via email Saturday that she is Haobshs sister. His killer was not identified. Allen died in 1992. A 2007 movie, Zodiac, directed by David Fincher and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr., points to a man by the name of Arthur Leigh Allen, but no conclusive evidence backs up this theory. Senior Skip Day is an event not officially sanctioned by local schools, but it's a day anticipated by many high school seniors. On the witness stand, Tramel expressed shock and horror at Kurtzmans sudden savagery. Yanikians defense was diminished capacity brought on by the trauma he experienced as a genocide survivor. Han graduated from medical school, and in the early 1980s he became aware that two post-graduate positions opened up at UCSBs psychology department. 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