Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders - E-book - ePub

Murder in California: Serial Killers and Unsolved Murders profiles some of California's most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime.
Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided. A directory of precise crime site locations is included. The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades.
Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. California has been the site for many notorious serial killers. The following are portrayed in this edition:Zodiac Serial Killer: Public and media tauntingCharles Manson's serial killing clanDorothea Puente: The elderly and frail targeted and eliminated for profitEfren Saldivar: Caregiving medical homicideThe Unabomber: His UC Berkeley experienceZebra Killings: San Francisco's racially targeted genocideHeaven's Gate Cult mass suicideEdmund Kemper III: Monstrous hitchhiking murdersBittaker and Norris: Torture van murdersJuan Corona: Migrant workers serial killerRichard Trenton Chase: The vampire killerThe Speed Freak Killers and their burial bone yardsHerbert Mullin: Killing for earthquake preventivenessDavid Carpenter: The devil behind bifocals and a stutterJim Jones and the Peoples Temple Massacre: Lost in a jungle mass suicideThe Hillside Strangler Duo: Killing CousinsRodney Alcala: A beastly killing machine slaying beautyRichard Ramirez: Satan's ambassadorGolden State Killer: The triumph of forensic trackingA Black Hand of Death and Inhumanity (Jose Manuel Martinez)A Killing Rampage Preying On Society's Most Vulnerable Population (Jon David Guerrero)The Santa Rosa Hitchhiking Murders: preying on the innocentDavid Nadel: The death of a man and rebirth of a performance iconTorrey Pines Beach: Sands, Secrets and A Butterfly DancerThe continued fascination with the Black Dahlia MurderFatty Arbuckle's sex and homicide scandalA Classic Mob Contract Killing Of An Unwanted DistractionWas a 1963 beachfront slaying a prelude to future Zodiac terror?Geneva Ellroy: The transference of tragedy into literary expressionA Double Tragedy Complicated By Mysterious Scenarios (Spreckels Mansion Death)Kym Morgan: Death by classified advertisementKevin Collins: A solitary bus bench memorial to every parent's nightmareUnauthorized Celebrity Biography Comics and A Founder's Murder (Todd Lawrence)Ted Healy: The suspected homicide of the fourth StoogeThe Resolute Will to keep William Desmond Taylor's murder unsolvedA Contract Killer Terminated By His Own Profession (Frank Bompensiero)Ramona Irene Price strolls innocently into a vanished pastRaymond Washington: A cycle of senseless violence devours the Crips gang founderThe Senseless Murder of a Catholic Priest on Holiday (Monsignor Louis Gutierrez)