Tag: perjury
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A Web of Informants: Part 5. Eva Castillo
Eva Castillo was named by Manuel Hechavarria (Cuba). He guided detectives to her last known residence but she was not there – she had been arrested for burglary in September 1984 and was in prison, using the alias Rosa Solis. When detectives interviewed Castillo in prison, she admitted to committing burglary with Cuba and someone…
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Sophie Dickman and the Shortish Jewellery Expert
7th July 1985: Sophie Dickman was raped, assaulted and robbed in Monterey Park. During the attack, the man threatened to kill her with a small pistol which he held against her head. She was left handcuffed to her bed. Sophie Dickman’s neighbour across the street was Linda Arthur, an L.A. County Sheriff’s Deputy and crime…
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Tsai-Lian Yu: Murder, Medallions & Morphing Suspects
The Yu incident does not match any of the other Night Stalker attacks. Before the killer’s moniker had been coined, he was also the ‘Valley Intruder’, the ‘Valley Invader’, or the ‘Walk-in-Killer. Only, in this incident, nobody walked in, invaded or intruded anywhere. This shooting happened in the middle of a road; there was no…
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The Wrong Gun (There Was No Gun)
Have you ever watched Night Stalker: the Hunt for a Killer and thought ‘something isn’t quite right’? Well, there are a lot of things about it that are not quite right, such as the inclusion of crimes Ramirez was never convicted of: the child abductions and the murder of Patty Higgins. Then there are things…
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The Murder of Mary Louise Cannon
East Haven Avenue, Arcadia, LA County 2nd July 1985. Mary Cannon was a two-time cancer survivor. She had been in a minor car accident the day before she was murdered. That evening, she had visited her neighbours, who had a spare key to her house. Despite staying up watching TV approximately 35 feet away from Cannon’s…