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. 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. Weekly Poll It was the fourth time Gray had assaulted Russell. When they heard sounds from the gazebo, they went to investigate. Hans mother encountered high rates of ovarian cancer in the women she treated, becoming a pioneering expert in the disease. Soon De la Guerra Plaza was packed morning, noon, and night with homeless people and their supporters. He moved his parents over from China, and they lived with him; his new wife, Jennie; and their daughter, Emily. With rippling, wind-formed sand dunes, the valley boasts some of California's most magnificent scenery. Thor Nis Christiansen was born in Denmark, and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was five years old. Dental records confirmed the remains were Barry and Louise. In person, he radiated a calming clinical confidence. He added that bruises were on Domingos fist, indicating that he may have fought his attacker, although police werent able to confirm this. Santa Barbara may be paradise, but its inhabitants have been killing each other in ways mundane and spectacular since the days of Adam and Eve. 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. Realizing the men were still alive, he pulled out another handguna Browningand shot both in the head twice. Yanikians defense was diminished capacity brought on by the trauma he experienced as a genocide survivor. In the end, the media covering Pepe's sex-predator trial and conviction in California never linked the cold case sitting in files in Inyo County. 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. Days after they went missing, the bodies of Domingos and Edwards were found hidden in a ramshackle shed near a remote stretch of Gaviota Beach. Armenians and Greeks, Bullies and Editors, Teen Soldiers and Homeless. . In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. It was national news when Santa Barbara lawyers won a case before the Supreme Court allowing those with no fixed abode to register to vote. Though more than a half-century-old, the mystery of the Zodiac lingers, and police believe he could still be at large. [20], Patricia Laney has become a prominent symbol for groups that advocate against violence to women in the Santa Barbara/Goleta/Isla Vista area. I saw results within a week, he said. Barry and Louise had strong spiritual grounding 'what has to be has to be,' recalls Ray Castellino, a Santa Barbara natural health care practitioner. He thinks Domingos may have known his killer. At the time, he was described as a white male with blond hair and in good physical condition, articulate, well dressed, and clean-cut. Zemaitis recalled his father saying she was so strikingly beautiful that everyone would drop what they were doing to catch a look at her. When Henry Han was shot to death last week, nearly 200 patients suddenly found themselves without their doctor. He committed an act of justice. An Eagle Scout, he had told Tramel earlier that night that he knew about gutting a deer. Michael Joseph Pepe handcuffed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Credit: AP Photo/Heng Sinith. Bringing together non-profits with an audience of affluent donors. Nadine came from a traditional Circassian-Middle Eastern family, reads her online biography. While the Domingos-Edwards murders continue to drive speculation, the case remains unsolved. It took a few days for the killing to seep into Santa Barbaras collective consciousness. Much of her whereabouts from this time until her death are shrouded in mystery. Authorities believe he could still be alive. The two were sweethearts. KEYT. Domingos was your all-American high school student. Eventually, they worked things out. Han, his older sister, and his parents were exiled to a re-education camp in the rural outposts of western China. If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. Christiansen was a good student until his junior year of high school, when he began neglecting his schoolwork. Grays role in community life, however, was more complicated than his rap sheet might suggest. It was the murder of a homeless man in a city decried for its homeless laws in the county where the president lived. The following day, he was charged with the attempted murder of Lydia Preston. On January 27, 1973, in his Biltmore cottage, Yanikian sat down to lunch with two senior diplomats from the Turkish consulate. She was last seen on November 20, 1976. 7:27PM @ 676 Circle Dr. Park responsibly and bring" 1980 in Ventura, when Charlene Smith, 33, and her husband Lyman . He looked for signers named Mike and found one who'd written down his address at a Marine Corps base. Around midday, a man and a woman, who've asked not to be identified, rolled into camp. Lucas, Mottweiler, Ganner and the hiker drove up the Corridor for miles, beyond where most of the searching took place in 1986. It was just the kind of guy he was.. The bullet struck one of Glanceys wrists, broke both bones, entered his stomach, and blew a hole through him. If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. 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. We Remember Them . 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. Within two, the symptoms were all but gone. Carlson was convinced. Alcohol flowed, and people often wandered around bare-ass naked. On Wednesday evening, March 23, authorities discovered all three wrapped in clear plastic and duct taped in the garage of their 4640 Greenhill Way home near Goleta. In 1943, she was arrested in Santa Barbara for underage drinking and sent home to Massachusetts on a train. The most recent killing linked to the Golden State Killer occurred in 1986, and he has remained elusive ever since. Any number of people could be a suspect, Zemaitis said. He was taken into custody at gunpoint without incident. And new location? 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. They're looking for a way to bring charges. She was working as a secretary and living with her teenage daughter, Laura, in Goleta. Glancey stumbled into the Morris Hotel at State and Haley and collapsed in the reading room. In response to the uprising of Tiananmen Square, Han reportedly signed a statement in support of the protestors. Mike: Well, they told me they had a boat, and they told me they were into astrology. But as retired deputy Boyer recently said, it's not that unusual for people to take off into the desert and never come back.. Two million words I have written, and nobody pays attention, Yanikian testified during his trial. Yanikian studied engineering in Russia, built railroads in Iran, and, after World War II, moved to the United States, where he developed subdivisions, made money, lost money, wrote books, and then moved to Santa Barbara, where he strode through the streets, an imposing figure with long silver hair. Soon after Yanikians conviction, 40 Turkish diplomats were gunned down around the world. Their deaths are tragic and mysterious. [6], Laura Sue Benjamin Life was good, with Barry focusing on his ironworking business, Valley Forgeworks, and hosting satsang meetings with Louise. He had just moved to Santa Barbara only a few years after the previous Press editor had been horsewhipped down State Street by the District Attorney, W.T. Since Han set up shop in Santa Barbara in the 1980s, there was never anything the least bit woo-woo or New Age about the medicine he practiced. And the forensics team found an item of spine-chilling significance: a handcuff key. I wanted to get that guy out of there. None of this mattered, however, on the evening of August 4, 1985, when Stephenson became the victim of the most lethal panic attack in Santa Barbara history. He wasnt passionate about the case, but it upset him that they didnt get back to him.. She was shot twice in the head, sometime in April. After serving nine years in prison, he was transferred to a care facility, a sick old man. Though nobody acknowledges it, the massive government response clearly was prompted by Jules Berman's political and business connections. And Barry probably winced when his dad, as a California athletic commissioner, voted to deny a boxing license to Muhammad Ali, who had refused the draft. In 1991, he bought out Yu, who moved to San Luis Obispo. In addition, Han was intrigued by the prospect of deploying stem cells in the manufacture of skin-regenerating cosmetics. In 1980, an unknown assailant abducted 19-year old Kym Morgan from a Los Angeles discotheque. 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. He had invited them to reclaim a painting stolen from the Turkish sultanate more than 100 years ago. It screwed me up. He did the one-on-one with the patients; his assistants mixed the herbal concoctions. 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. 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 life, Stephenson had made it past his 29th birthday. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. A California man convicted of killing a Santa Barbara County family, including its 5-year-old daughter, will serve life in prison, a judge ruled Friday. Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Noozhawk is a founding member of the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers . Despite many eyewitnesses, Gray claimed self-defense. She was a totally non-violent person, so alive, a source told the Santa Maria Times in a January 1980 article. It was the last time they were seen alive. While Barry Berman gravitated in the 1960s and '70s toward the counterculture, his dad was making enemies with the Sierra Club by destroying forestland to build a golf course. On Nov. 20, 1986, nearly a year after the couple vanished, Inyo County Sheriff's investigators Randy Nixon and Marston Mottweiler asked Pepe for a meeting. Alex Murdaugh's defense attorneys will deliver their closing arguments in his murder trial on Wednesday as they seek to raise reasonable doubt about whether he killed his wife and son in 2021 . It turned out to be Michael Joseph Pepe. His crimes motivated large demonstrations opposed to violence against women, and in favor of better transportation for the young people residing in Isla Vista. Santa Barbara County, California April 18, 1965 - February 28, 1992 Stabbed in neck Gray moved to San Francisco, but the cataclysmic fire of 1906 destroyed his health, and he died in Sacramento one year later. Christiansen also said he killed his victims, took them to a secluded place, unclothed them, and sexually explored their bodies. Susan Pater, at her Southwest Portland home, holds a picture of her sister, Barbara Mae Tucker, who was murdered in 1980. He told the Sun that just before his death, Domingos landed a job driving a fuel delivery truck for Atlantic Richfield oil company. We worked and worked and worked.. He pleaded guilty to 13 murders, including those of four Santa Barbara County residents, and dozens of sexual assaults and burglaries in the 1970s and 1980s Thursday, November 10 , 2022, 2:55 pm . He was held in a Santa Barbara County jail on $500,000 bond. Three couples were attacked in remote locations, either shot or stabbed, and in all but one case, only the female victims died. Domingos taught him how to shoot a .22 rifle. In 1873, Gray sought the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney and came within seven votes of winning. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which can investigate crimes involving Marine Corps personnel, began working on the case, and lead NCIS investigator Cheryl Craycraft dogged Michael Pepe. If they did, I could shoot a German delicatessen owner and have witnesses say I was justified.. In 1880, Gray again sought his partys nomination for District Attorney. Copyright Santa Maria Sun. Zepeda was transported to the Santa Barbara County Jail and booked for Homicide (felony) and Robbery (felony). He eventually was turned over to U.S. agents and flown to Los Angeles to stand trial committing a sex crime against a minor anywhere in the world is a federal offense. While a candidate, President Trump had bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. On Oct. 1, 1979, a couple from Goleta survived an attack from a man believed to be the Golden State Killer, according to a report in the Santa Maria Times. She had alabaster skin and light blue eyes that contrasted with her black hair. It has yet to be approved by the Senate, however, and no voteas yethas been scheduled. Hughes was convicted in 1980 of the three murders and sentenced to three concurrent terms of 21 years to life in prison. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Santa Barbaras New State Street Hotel Opens, Santa Barbara Supes Approve 94 Transitional Cabins, Downed Eucalyptus Temporarily Shuts Down Hwy. She had. All this was just getting off the ground when Tramel and Kurtzman murdered Stephenson. Barry and Louise's remains were found seven rugged miles above the Palm Spring campground it's unlikely they hiked in, given that Louise had a sore ankle. The third trial proved the charm; Gray was flat-out acquitted. Domingos cousin, who didnt want to be identified for this story, is now in his 70s and lives in Lompoc. Barry spent time in India at a sprawling ashram known as the Dera, home to the spiritual society Radha Soami Satsang Beas, attending a daily satsang, or truth group, led by a guru master. In our heart of hearts, we know he had not committed an act of murder, one speaker proclaimed. Then, using Korb's directions to a natural hot springs, they'd see Saline Valley in the Mojave. Yet Pepe revealed the fact that Barry was an experienced boater and navigator. On May 22, 1977, the remains of Mary Sarris, 19, were discovered in a remote area near Los Alamos Canyon. Thor Nis Christiansen (28 December 1957 30 March 1981) was a Danish-American serial killer and necrophile from Solvang, California. The relationship was sweet they were good partners, says Sullivan, then an El Capitan dweller and now an acupuncturist in North Fork, California. A Hispanic woman's body was found on March 31, 1988 in Santiago Park, Santa Ana, Orange County, California. Artists Scaling Down, Thinking Bigger at Santa Barbara City College Exhibition. No one saw Barry and Louise that day. The death of Short remains one of Los Angeles oldest unsolved murders. Unlike some herbalists and acupuncture practitioners who saw themselves as distinct from traditional Western medicine, he practiced an East-West blend of practices. The buyer, Mollie Purnell, bought the firearm at a gun store in San Leandro, California. He remembers learning about the mystery after looking through his fathers scrapbook and seeing newspaper clippings on Shorts death. Jim Zemaitis of Santa Maria-based Overland Security said his father, Bruno Zemaitis, a security guard and amateur sleuth, briefly investigated Shorts death. As hope of finding the couple alive faded, Jules Berman formed a dark theory about their fate. 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. 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