Thor Nis Christiansen was born in Denmark, and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was five years old. including Santa Barbara County DA Joyce Dudley, that he wished to plead guilty to the 26 counts of murder and kidnapping in exchange for escaping the death . With an eerie noir atmosphere, Shorts murder became a popular subject of books and films, and it even inspired the name of a heavy metal band. Startled by the arrival of Tramel and Kurtzman, Stevenson sat up, startling Kurtzman. 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. State and federal authorities interviewed hundreds of people, but no evidence has ever conclusively linked any suspects. She had joined Radha Soami, and at a satsang meeting she mentioned she needed a place to live. The next day, Jan. 6, Casey, Snyder and their buddy Mark Muscio drank coffee spiked with Kahlua and rode off on Yamaha dirt bikes, following a ragged set of tracks called the Eureka-Saline Corridor, which leads to Eureka Valley and some of North America's tallest sand dunes. The point being, the more things change, the more they dont. No one saw Barry and Louise that day. In 1991, he bought out Yu, who moved to San Luis Obispo. Life was good, with Barry focusing on his ironworking business, Valley Forgeworks, and hosting satsang meetings with Louise. However, the victims, and their families, still await justice. Surrounded by large gardens and situated on a seven-acre avocado ranch, the familys hillside Mediterranean-style home is not visible from the main road below. I recall Emilys love of serving me delicious sand cupcakes she had prepared during outdoor play. Neely recommended grieving families light a candle to honor Emily and her parents. Han, his older sister, and his parents were exiled to a re-education camp in the rural outposts of western China. Memorials for family and friends who have lost family and friends to murder. Zemaitis told the Sun that he recalls his father telling him that Short was a frequent customer of the long-gone Snappy Lunch Diner, which was located on the corner of Broadway and Cook streets in Santa Maria. Susan Pater, at her Southwest Portland home, holds a picture of her sister, Barbara Mae Tucker, who was murdered in 1980. Copyright 2023 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Wilson, and left in a state of insensibility., Originally from Illinois, Glancey had the personality and physique of an ax handle. Memorial Wall for Murder Victims. The only vehicles seen in the Corridor on Jan. 6, 1986, were three dirt bikes and Pepe's pickup. Barry and Louise came together in Santa Barbara in the 1980s through the same guru master. I was messed up, he said, as tears formed in his eyes. In an online video, retired Sacramento County Sheriffs Department detective Ray Biondi said he regrets not being able to solve the crimes. After the murder of his brother, Yanikians family moved from their Armenian village, seeking refuge throughout the region. On the afternoon before they disappeared in 1986, Barry and Louise Berman followed a bone-jarring road deep into the California desert. He moved his parents over from China, and they lived with him; his new wife, Jennie; and their daughter, Emily. Han graduated from medical school in Beijing, where he grew up. 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. 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. Eventually she made it back to California. She gave so much to her patients.. But when the two got back to their dorm, Tramel bragged to other students: We bagged a Mexican. When no one believed him, Tramel led them to the scene. Accordingly, the killings in Isla Vista were dubbed the "look-alike" murders. But before he became known as the Zodiac Killer, he may have honed his proficiency with the 1963 killings of Domingos and Edwards in Santa Barbara County. On July 27, 1979, after interviewing over 115 persons over the previous two years, Christiansen was arrested for the murders of Patricia Laney, Jacqueline Rook, and Mary Sarris. That morning, Henry Han had missed a Los Angeles business meeting and wasnt answering phone calls, prompting two colleagues to visit his home. In life, Stephenson had made it past his 29th birthday. 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.. And new location? 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. This summer, the 74-year-old former police officer pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder. Louise Berman turned 52 five days before she and her husband set out for the desert on Jan. 3, 1986. the state of California in the 1970s and 1980s, killing at . An Eagle Scout, he had told Tramel earlier that night that he knew about gutting a deer. Louise joined the counterculture in the 1960s, living in Box Canyon in Chatsworth, then a hotbed of hippie life, where she experimented with LSD. The Chinese government was after him. At this time, Han worked in a rehabilitation center, treating Reliss uncle who had suffered a stroke. His father, liquor importer Jules Berman, became known as Mr. Trew Knowledge. A front-page photo in the Jan. 24, 1983, Santa Barbara News-Press showed Laura's car marooned with its roof torn open. Then more teams descended, not to mention helicopters from the Navy, Army and California Highway Patrol. His friend Pat Brown, governor of California, appointed him to the state athletic commission. His bail is set at $1,000,000. Police are offering a $50,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the revelation of the identity of the Golden State Killer. During the tumultuous and freewheeling years of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the San Francisco Bay Area, a killer emerged. The stories vary, but according to Bardach, Hans childhood was unspeakable. Carlson said Han was beaten routinely. He marked the spot with a cairn and carried the skull to camp. When asked if he met any couples there, he answered, There's couples up there all the time. Shown pictures of the Bermans, he responded, The guy looks somewhat familiar. Asked if he talked to them in the hot tub, he said, I don't know.. 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? But as retired deputy Boyer recently said, it's not that unusual for people to take off into the desert and never come back.. Like many familiar with herbal cures, Han understood hemp plants contain psychoactively inert chemicals known as cannabidiols, or CBDs. A guide to Santa Barbara's philanthropic community. Louise and Barry Berman at the ashram in India known as the Dera. 1980-1984 [ edit] Pastel drawing of scar Romero, murdered Archbishop. Not so much anymore. 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. Last year, both parents died, one two weeks after the other. It was the fourth time Gray had assaulted Russell. Martinez hopes the incident will shed. 56 Video Forecast . There were people coming and going at all hours of the night.. It took a few days for the killing to seep into Santa Barbaras collective consciousness. 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. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is continuing the search for the suspect who murdered Kym Morgan in Santa Barbara in 1985. It screwed me up. Did the Zodiac Killer strike in Santa Barbara County? The suspect was identified as Gabriel Jose Zepeda, a 46-year-old transient that was arrested without incident. Dan Lucas from the Inyo County Sheriff's Office began scouring the area. The Marine captain seemed an unlikely suspect. His father sparked more outrage when he bought much of Runyon Canyon and razed its historic San Patrizio mansion in order to avoid paying taxes. Michael Joseph Pepe handcuffed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Credit: AP Photo/Heng Sinith. 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. Dr. Henry . Also in the tub were Casey's friend Greg Snyder and a military man, Mike the Marine. The Bermans talked about wanting to visit Indian ruins, Snyder says. 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. She had been a community volunteer with organizations that advocated against violence to women. He killed at least eight women and men in Santa Barbara, Ventura and . As hope of finding the couple alive faded, Jules Berman formed a dark theory about their fate. Lucas, Mottweiler, Ganner and the hiker drove up the Corridor for miles, beyond where most of the searching took place in 1986. It was devastating. He looked for signers named Mike and found one who'd written down his address at a Marine Corps base. His victims had long, straight hair, wore similar clothing, and had about the same build. On January 27, 1973, in his Biltmore cottage, Yanikian sat down to lunch with two senior diplomats from the Turkish consulate. In 1874, when Judge Pablo de la Guerra died, Gray was one of 12 pallbearers who carried the coffin through a crowd of 2,000 mourners. Retired deputy Leon Boyer says that Chili Bob finally radioed in on Jan. 10, five days after the Bermans were last seen in camp, to report an abandoned Datsun truck at the Palm Spring campground. Desert campers who hung out with the couple the day they vanished had no clue that Barry was heir apparent to a vast fortune. My mom didn't have a conventional mind, says Michael Westerman, a government purchasing manager in Vancouver, Washington. Nadine came from a traditional Circassian-Middle Eastern family, reads her online biography. Minier made him out to be a sleazeball, noting that Yanikian wrote a book detailing the sex lives of college coeds and that he tried to pick up a waitress two nights before the killings. The paperunder a previous editorhad described Gray as a blatherskite and brazen-faced demagogue and hoodlum. In 1876, Gray beat up William Russell, editor of The Index, another publication, leaving his head a bloody mess. In addition, Han was intrigued by the prospect of deploying stem cells in the manufacture of skin-regenerating cosmetics. 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. 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. Yet Pepe revealed the fact that Barry was an experienced boater and navigator. Lyman and Charlene Smith were murdered in their Ventura home in March 1980. 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. Mountain ranges rise abruptly from open desert and on one of the lower slopes, an enormous peace sign, crafted from volcanic rocks, has been left by desert visitors. The hiker led the way up a dry wash, and Ganner soon found the second skull. [18] The plea change came just weeks after the Los Angeles trial, where Christiansen was found sane by six out of at least seven psychiatrists. Their excursion to Saline Valley was meant as a make-up trip: They'd visit Death Valley and tour Scotty's Castle to see its exquisite ironwork. 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. But their happiness was soon shattered. . Gray chased after him and shot him. 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