After trackers found promising shoe prints, the National Guard took the unusual step of sending in a massive CH-47 helicopter. His killer was not identified. But their happiness was soon shattered. We know that our guy took items, Knutson said on the FBI website. [4][19], On March 30, 1981, Christiansen died after being stabbed once in the chest while walking in the exercise yard at Folsom State Prison. If the Golden State Killer is still alive, police believe he is somewhere in the range of 60 to 75 years old. Eventually she made it back to California. Tramel and Kurtzman were tried as adults, found guilty, and sent away for a long time. Like Barry, she was a rebel. After a whirlwind of attorney swaps and continuances for the four Santa Barbara men charged in connection to the murder of 52-year-old Camarillo resident Richard Dion Gutierrez near Stearns Wharf last December, all four appeared in Santa Barbara Superior Court for arraignment on Monday morning, where each pleaded not guilty and set a date to return for preliminary trial setting on April 6. Han, he said, ran a lab in Los Angeles in hopes of catching this Holy Grail. Trailers housed permanent residents, including Chili Bob, the campground host, and Major Tom Ganner, now a glacier guide and photographer in Alaska. A March 25 KGTV San Diego newscast featured Oceanside neighbors, who remembered Haobsh as off. The night of Haobshs arrest, the suburban neighborhood saw authorities search his home with flashlights. Michael Westerman says his mom and Barry were two souls headed in the same direction. That direction led them to the vanishing point. This week, over 40 years later, Gresham police identified a Troutdale. Retired Inyo County Sheriff's deputy Leon Boyer, who has lived with the baffling case for three decades, today says, You can't commit a homicide and get away with it.. At the time, the BLM was undertaking a controversial land-use study, and Boyer noticed a petition posted by activists at Lower Springs for visitors to sign. 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. Note: An earlier version of this story said Mary Sullivan gave birth in Barry Berman's cottage. Back in California, he formally joined Radha Soami, pledging to follow the Path of avegetarian diet, moral behavior, daily meditation and abstinence from drugs and alcohol. Search the newspapers of all the areas you know they lived or spent time in for things such as work or school. Barry and Louise had strong spiritual grounding 'what has to be has to be,' recalls Ray Castellino, a Santa Barbara natural health care practitioner. Name index of death index created by the California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section in Sacramento. Han graduated from medical school in Beijing, where he grew up. This put him sideways with Chinese authorities. When Han, normally precise and punctual, did not show, the partners grew concerned. On the afternoon before they disappeared in 1986, Barry and Louise Berman followed a bone-jarring road deep into the California desert. Dust-covered and sweaty, she recalls, He was super nervous. Before the two went on the prowl, another student asked him, What are you going to do, kill someone? He replied, Thats the idea., James Tramel (left) and David Kurtzman | Photo: Christopher Gardner, As Tramel and Kurtzman entered Alameda Park, they thought they were following one of the gang members, but they quickly lost him in the dark. But she, too, developed no solid evidence. As hope of finding the couple alive faded, Jules Berman formed a dark theory about their fate. On January 27, 1973, in his Biltmore cottage, Yanikian sat down to lunch with two senior diplomats from the Turkish consulate. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), https://www.independent.com/2016/03/30/inside-han-family-murders/. The Sun researched three of the most notorious unsolved cases for this story. Jennie, whom Neely remembers as vivacious like Emily, waitressed for two years at Saigon Noodle House about six years ago, said the restaurants manager, who preferred to be identified as David. Copyright Santa Maria Sun. A Hispanic woman's body was found on March 31, 1988 in Santiago Park, Santa Ana, Orange County, California. I checked her out, of course, he says. Glancey grabbed his wrists, shouted he was unarmed, and walked away. She gave so much to her patients.. Years later, after Louise found her soul mate in Barry, a fellow spiritual seeker, the couple received a generous wedding gift: In May 1981, Jules Berman bought property for Barry high above the ocean on exclusive Refugio Road near Santa Barbara. It just leaves our lives completely empty., Despite finding the remains, the Inyo County Sheriff's Office, hampered by lack of funds, shelved the investigation a decision the couple's friend Pauline Colbert calls a monumental fuck-up. Retired deputy Boyer says, I was bummed out.. In 1980, an unknown assailant abducted 19-year old Kym Morgan from a Los Angeles discotheque. Lucas recently told the Weekly, Foul play was in the back of my mind. The sergeant even ordered his team to roll the couple's Datsun pickup into the belly of the CH-47 so it could be flown to the high-desert town of Bishop for examination. There were people coming and going at all hours of the night.. He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from nearby Isla Vista. 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. But Casey, now a mechanic living in Browns Valley, California, tells the Weekly that he saw Mike the Marine unloading gear from his pickup, apparently preparing for a day trip. One of the most notorious, and perhaps gruesome, murders connected to Santa Barbara County is that of Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, in 1947. Despite many eyewitnesses, Gray claimed self-defense. Saline Valley was peaceful Chili Bob had a two-way radio but mainly used it for medical emergencies. At age 8, he watched Turks slit the throat of his older brother. Eventually, they worked things out. He was held in a Santa Barbara County jail on $500,000 bond. 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. At his Forest Lawn funeral, 350 Armenian rights activists gathered to honor his crime. Then, using Korb's directions to a natural hot springs, they'd see Saline Valley in the Mojave. There is some doubt about this, since the Zodiac never took credit for the murders. State and federal authorities interviewed hundreds of people, but no evidence has ever conclusively linked any suspects. When something comes up, I always want to help.. 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. A kindergartener at Foothill Elementary School, Emily would have turned 6 on March 26. We worked and worked and worked.. Craycraft retired from the NCIS, and Inyo County officials didn't pick up the case until the Weeklybegan connecting the dots and discovered that circumstantial evidence clearly points in Pepe's direction. It was at their instigation that authorities initiated the welfare check that led to the discovery of Hans dead body and that of his wife and daughter. In 1873, Gray sought the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney and came within seven votes of winning. He looked for signers named Mike and found one who'd written down his address at a Marine Corps base. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. They also plan to erect electronic billboards nationwide with information on the crimes in order to encourage the public to come forward with information. And new location? Dan Lucas from the Inyo County Sheriff's Office began scouring the area. At age 77, Yanikian was known to many in Santa Barbara as a retired civil engineer, folk-dance aficionado, and man about townbut the true story of his life had been written long ago in the blood of slaughtered Armenians. He moved out of his parents' house, dropped out of school, and began working as a gas station attendant. During the tumultuous and freewheeling years of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the San Francisco Bay Area, a killer emerged. In the early 1940s, before her grisly murder in Los Angeles, Short spent a considerable amount of time in Santa Barbara County. Louise joined the counterculture in the 1960s, living in Box Canyon in Chatsworth, then a hotbed of hippie life, where she experimented with LSD. Santa Barbara Jugglers Association & Club Jugglers at UCSB, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thor_Nis_Christiansen&oldid=1138542881, My Favorite Murder Podcast, Episode 27 "Your Hometown Murder Email Round-up", This page was last edited on 10 February 2023, at 06:57. Death finally came for a "condemned" inmate from Santa Barbara County convicted in the heinous 1980 murder of a 6 . The younger Haobsh left a scarce Internet trail (he had a Facebook page with one profile picture visible to the public). Index includes name, sex, date and place of birth, date and county of death, father's last name, and mother's maiden name. Soon De la Guerra Plaza was packed morning, noon, and night with homeless people and their supporters. Like many familiar with herbal cures, Han understood hemp plants contain psychoactively inert chemicals known as cannabidiols, or CBDs. 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. Six weeks after Barry and Louise disappeared, Inyo County investigators landed their first solid lead: Two pairs of Nikes were found tucked under a bush by the dirt road below Palm Spring. 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. They were the nicest young people you could ever meet in your life, Gnesa said. I was messed up, he said, as tears formed in his eyes. She was a totally non-violent person, so alive, a source told the Santa Maria Times in a January 1980 article. The stories vary, but according to Bardach, Hans childhood was unspeakable. Carlson said Han was beaten routinely. It turned out to be Michael Joseph Pepe. We are still best friends, he said. They dined out every couple of months, often in the company of Paul Relis, cofounder of the Community Environmental Council. Marcus Knutson, a FBI special agent, believes the killer may have a collection of crime scene tokens stashed away somewhere. He did the one-on-one with the patients; his assistants mixed the herbal concoctions. She had. Section #1. While the Domingos-Edwards murders continue to drive speculation, the case remains unsolved. THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) Rescuers using cranes and heavy machinery on Thursday searched the wreckage of trains involved in a deadly collision that sent Greece into national mourning and . 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. 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. She was working as a secretary and living with her teenage daughter, Laura, in Goleta. You just have to wait it out, Carlson recalls being told. Korb says that sometimes, after a heavy rain, ancient artifacts on the land are exposed including human remains. For a while, Han worked with an herbal practitioner named Jean Yu, owner of the Herb Clinic. 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. He caught the attention of investigators in February 1977, when he was cited for being a minor in possession of liquor. It was the murder of a homeless man in a city decried for its homeless laws in the county where the president lived. Although the elder Berman threw himself and his money into solving the disappearance of his son and daughter-in-law, the father and son had deep issues between them. Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Noozhawk is a founding member of the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers . Over the years, roughly 79,967 of those murders were solved, leaving more than 48,000 unsolved murders in California. It was always in the back of my mind. Instead, he sought out Henry Han. She had joined Radha Soami, and at a satsang meeting she mentioned she needed a place to live. Then Kurtzman attacked. [1] In 1979, he killed a young woman from Los Angeles. He was taken into custody at gunpoint without incident. She went from house to house, staying on friends couches. Zemaitis remembers his fathers frustration about the FBIs inaction after contacting the agency regarding Shorts time in Santa Barbara County. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. Domingos was three years older than him.His cousin said he looked up to Domingos. 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. The Chinese government was after him. At this time, Han worked in a rehabilitation center, treating Reliss uncle who had suffered a stroke. Also, the victims were shot and killed with a .22 caliber semi-automatic gun. Trew Knowledge. Domingos death deeply affected his cousin. Barry took note of the beautiful woman who had a way with men. Williams recently drove to the federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, and met with Pepe. For them, Han provided a one-two punch of psychological comfort and medical relief. By 20, Yanikian had seen thousands of dead Armenians26 bodies were members of his own family. One of the most infamous murder cases in New York City during the 1980s involved a Ridgewood woman at the center of a criminal investigation against her employer, who made sure a professional . The Domingos and Edwards murders are just two of the 26 cold cases in Santa Barbara County, some of which are believed to have been committed by infamous serial killers. Yanikians defense was diminished capacity brought on by the trauma he experienced as a genocide survivor. 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 bullet struck one of Glanceys wrists, broke both bones, entered his stomach, and blew a hole through him. Peter Cacavas . [11][12] He was scheduled to go to trial in Los Angeles on February 4, 1980, for the 1977 murder of Laura Benjamin, and in Santa Barbara on March 17, 1980, for the Isla Vista murders. Her ex-husband, former L.A. firefighter Wes Westerman, now retired in the San Juan Islands, remains bitter about her radical awakening, complaining, She met people who brought in drugs. Jennie worked at a number of other Asian food eateries around town. It has yet to be approved by the Senate, however, and no voteas yethas been scheduled. Martinez hopes the incident will shed. 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. [16] On May 14, 1980, Christiansen was sentenced to 25 years to life for the murder of Laura Benjamin, and 9 years for the attempted murder of Lydia Preston. In fact, Han personally intervened to help Relis and his wife adopt a baby girl from China 19 years ago. 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. He was very smug., Some of Barry and Louise's fellow spiritualists believe that, in the truest sense, they are still alive. The letters usually included ciphers that he claimed contained clues to his identity. Domingos was your all-American high school student. It was the last time they were seen alive. Memorials for family and friends who have lost family and friends to murder. They searched a maze of narrow canyons and dry waterfalls but found nothing. District Attorney Joyce Dudley will make that decision at a later date. They were young adults who had dreams and aspirations. The murders were so random a priest stabbed in a confessional, four teens killed in a state park, female co-eds who disappeared after hitchhiking that law enforcement didn't initially realize. They are still loved. She was a vagabond and lived in Vallejo, San Francisco, and Miami. All rights reserved. The killer is suspected in at least eight killings and some 40 rapes that took place from 1979 to 1986 in Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Ventura and Orange counties. Lucas' team jimmied open the Datsun and found two cameras with undeveloped film inside. 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. The Weekly obtained a copy of the transcript of that meeting, which reveals that the Marine captain's life wasn't so square-edged after all. 7:27PM @ 676 Circle Dr. Park responsibly and bring" Armenians and Greeks, Bullies and Editors, Teen Soldiers and Homeless. Around 12:25 a.m. Friday, Santa Barbara and Oceanside authorities spotted Haobsh driving a 2013 red Lexus sedan and followed him to a Bonsall gas station east of Oceanside. The young men were jacked out of their minds on adrenaline, testosterone, and hyperactive fantasies of revenge. 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. The citation noted that Christiansen had a .22 caliber pistol in his car, which was confiscated by the police. Yet Pepe revealed the fact that Barry was an experienced boater and navigator. 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. Zemaitis recalled his father saying she was so strikingly beautiful that everyone would drop what they were doing to catch a look at her. His last words reportedly were, No, my friend.. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. The charges drew global attention for the shocking crimes against little girls at his home in Phnom Penh. Zepeda was transported to the Santa Barbara County Jail and booked for Homicide (felony) and Robbery (felony). Words were exchanged. But for the longest time, the killer has gotten away with it. [10], On December 26, 1979, Christiansen entered a plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity," in addition to his previous "not guilty" plea. He finally settled on murder. Ive been waiting 30 minutes. Actually, Yanikian had been waiting considerably longer than that. His bail is set at $1,000,000. He played football, lived on a family ranch on Drum Canyon Road, and was handsome, mechanically inclined, and a man anyone would like to have as his or her friend. His student visa expired. Police found the murdered couple's grave nearby they were buried atop one another. In 1880, Graya charismatic, if frightening, force within Santa Barbaras Republican Partyactually shot and killed the editor of the Santa Barbara Press in broad daylight on State Street. Thor Nis Christiansen (28 December 1957 30 March 1981) was a Danish-American serial killer and necrophile from Solvang, California. As Carlson recalls, Han had patients from all over the country, especially in response to the AIDS epidemic. Trew Knowledge. Their deaths are tragic and mysterious. When Ganner came to the aid of his future wife, who got a flat tire at the hot springs, he joked he was her knight in naked armor.. 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.. [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. 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. Korb says the property was so remote that when he brought Mike Love of The Beach Boys to visit the couple, Love's vintage Rolls-Royce, leaking oil and straining up their corkscrew road, caught fire. A year later, the crimes moved south to Santa Barbara County. Wearing a blue button-up shirt, a tie, and at times a half-smile, Haobshs tone didnt betray that, early Friday morning, he was arrested at a San Diego County gas station and charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the brutal killings of well-known herbalist Dr. Weidong Henry Han, 57; his wife, Huijie Jennie Yu, 29; and the couples daughter, Emily Han, 5. [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. Barry, who owned a sailboat and sometimes navigated the Pacific coastline, talked about sailing alone to New Zealand. 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