But Tramel asked: Have you ever killed a deer with your bare hands? He married an American citizen, but the marriage didnt last. According to Inyo County Sheriff's records obtained by the Weekly, Mike the Marine said that he might've spotted the couple hiking the Corridor with backpacks a comment now considered a key admission by investigators. LAWeekly Instagram: Featuring the culture of LA since 1978 , Relationship with the Victim* Santa Barbara area voters defeated it by a wide margin. Both came from messed-up families. On Dec. 30, 1979, Debra Manning and Robert Offerman were killed in Goleta, near Santa Barbara. The third trial proved the charm; Gray was flat-out acquitted. But their happiness was soon shattered. Then Kurtzman attacked. [5][9], On August 20, 1979, Christiansen was charged with the murder of Laura Benjamin. It was surreal, she recalls. His physician said nothing could be done. That was not something we were interested in. She had been missing since December 6, 1976. At the time of the killings, his wife, a doctor, had been suffering from severe dementia for seven years, and the once-wealthy family was now destitute. He was fined $20. Han pursued both these projects on Wednesdays, the one day of the week he did not work at the Herb Clinic. 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. 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. As hope of finding the couple alive faded, Jules Berman formed a dark theory about their fate. It has yet to be approved by the Senate, however, and no voteas yethas been scheduled. Soon after Yanikians conviction, 40 Turkish diplomats were gunned down around the world. When the Press newspaper offices were destroyed in an arson fire, Gray was the chief suspect, though no charges were ever filed. The letters usually included ciphers that he claimed contained clues to his identity. "[15], During the trial, a psychiatric evaluation of Christiansen revealed he suffered from an "intermittent explosive disorder," a paranoid personality, chronic drug use, and necrophilia. Black History is Still Being Made by These L.A. Creatives Follow Them Now! Years into the investigation the case remained unsolved. Neighbors in the nearby Forte Ranch condominium community watched two and then 11 more law enforcement cars (among them forensics and Department of Justice criminalists) wind up the Hans driveway that evening. Armenians and Greeks, Bullies and Editors, Teen Soldiers and Homeless. If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. No one saw Barry and Louise that day. In 1980, an unknown assailant abducted 19-year old Kym Morgan from a Los Angeles discotheque. 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. She was last seen on November 20, 1976. He said Jennie would bring Emily every week to eat at his Hollister Avenue restaurant. Clarence Gray ranks as one of the great villains in Santa Barbara history, yet few people know his name. He was very smug., Some of Barry and Louise's fellow spiritualists believe that, in the truest sense, they are still alive. [7][8][6], Lydia Preston He played football at Hueneme High School, although according to former teammate Dan Marple he was not very popular. By the time the Bermans disappeared, Pepe was on his second marriage and was aide-de-camp to a general at a Marine Corps logistics base in Barstow. Domingos cousin, who didnt want to be identified for this story, is now in his 70s and lives in Lompoc. 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. Trailers housed permanent residents, including Chili Bob, the campground host, and Major Tom Ganner, now a glacier guide and photographer in Alaska. My mom didn't have a conventional mind, says Michael Westerman, a government purchasing manager in Vancouver, Washington. Note: An earlier version of this story said Mary Sullivan gave birth in Barry Berman's cottage. Dust-covered and sweaty, she recalls, He was super nervous. Glancey grabbed his wrists, shouted he was unarmed, and walked away. [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. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. 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. Healer-acupuncturist Mary Sullivan says, We have a living master, his job is to take you back home it doesn't matter how you die., Jules Berman, who died in 1998, didn't enjoy such peace. He became so brazen with his reputation that the Golden State Killer taunted the public in a poem he sent to Sacramento-area news outlets. As it turned out, the gun used in all three murders was a .38-caliber pistol (some sources say it was a .45-caliber gun) that had been purchased in October 1980. However, in 2011, advanced DNA testing confirmed that these four victims were also killed by EAR/ONS. Domingos death deeply affected his cousin. Spurred by the Weekly's probe, investigator Dan Williams of the Inyo County Sheriff's Office has opened a formal homicide investigation into the Berman case. 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. As Carlson described it, He went underground for a while. 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. However, his arrest came about when Lydia Preston called investigators on July 11, 1979, stating she saw her attacker at a bar in Hollywood. Unlike some herbalists and acupuncture practitioners who saw themselves as distinct from traditional Western medicine, he practiced an East-West blend of practices. Hed hoped to grow his own on his own land. All of the murders have either occurred here or their victims were somehow connected to Santa Barbara County. 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. But his brutal murder at the hands of a cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School here on Aug. 4--the second killing of a transient here in nine months--has become a symbol in an ongoing battle . Yet Pepe revealed the fact that Barry was an experienced boater and navigator. Lead investigator Dan Williams says they have a super strong person of interest, after the Weekly linked the unsolved desert murders to a modern atrocity: sexual predator Michael Joseph Pepe and his sentencing in Los Angeles in 2014 for vicious crimes against children in Southeast Asia. The following day, he was charged with the attempted murder of Lydia Preston. -1 Likes, 0 Comments - Santa Barbara HS Young Life (@sbdonsyounglife) on Instagram: "MURDER MYSTERY CLUB TONIGHT!!! Bobby was always thoughtful.. Barry, who owned a sailboat and sometimes navigated the Pacific coastline, talked about sailing alone to New Zealand. With the right mixture of herbal pills and a change of dietHan told me to eat lots of red meat and stay away from bread, she recalledBardach found relief. Williams recently drove to the federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, and met with Pepe. For the past 30 years, Hana skilled, quietly charismatic, and by all accounts brilliant herbal doctorhad treated roughly 13,000 people, many confronting serious health challenges such as cancer, osteoporosis, and hepatitis. This put wealthy, beautiful Santa Barbara in the crosshairs of the emerging homeless rights movement. Three couples were attacked in remote locations, either shot or stabbed, and in all but one case, only the female victims died. They were bound for the hot springs in Saline Valley, 50 miles from the nearest pavement and long a popular Mojave Desert draw for nudists and eccentrics. On July 11, 1979, Preston spotted Christiansen at a bar in Hollywood. [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. The charges drew global attention for the shocking crimes against little girls at his home in Phnom Penh. More victims followed. 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. 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. 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. She was a totally non-violent person, so alive, a source told the Santa Maria Times in a January 1980 article. He told the Santa Barbara News-Press that he feared Barry and Louise had been abducted while hunting artifacts. He killed at least eight women and men in Santa Barbara, Ventura and . He told the Sun that just before his death, Domingos landed a job driving a fuel delivery truck for Atlantic Richfield oil company. The number of currently unsolved California murders is absolutely shocking. Barry and Louise came together in Santa Barbara in the 1980s through the same guru master. 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. Barry and Louise came together in Santa Barbara in the 1980s through the same guru master. Saline Valley was peaceful Chili Bob had a two-way radio but mainly used it for medical emergencies. In a 2008 blog post, Courtney said their mother, Nancy Berchtold Haobsh, 55, had died from lymphatic cancer. The body was discovered first, lacking a head. When Glancey said he had, Gray pulled out a pistol and tried to shoot him. 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. He worked four days a week, seeing about 15 patients a day. 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. But Barry was repulsed by his dad's money and wanted to go the other way, recalls Brent Lieberman, a teenage buddy, now a surf photographer in Santa Barbara. The buyer, Mollie Purnell, bought the firearm at a gun store in San Leandro, California. Louise's faith in Radha Soami helped sustain her. Bringing together non-profits with an audience of affluent donors. His student visa expired. She was a vagabond and lived in Vallejo, San Francisco, and Miami. The death of Short remains one of Los Angeles oldest unsolved murders. During this time, Christiansen gained a great deal of weight, at one point weighing 275 pounds (125 kg). Like Barry, she was a rebel. Sheriff Brown called the diabolical and premeditated crime one of the most odious that I have been involved in.. Not just any property it was adjacent to President Ronald Reagan's Rancho del Cielo. And new location? 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. Instead, he sought out Henry Han. Over the years, roughly 79,967 of those murders were solved, leaving more than 48,000 unsolved murders in California. However, in 1972, the now-Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office issued a press release stating that the killings were the work of the infamous serial killer. [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. One of his first patients was Steve Carlson, then an administrator at UCSB, who was struggling with hepatitis A. Tramel, ordained as an Episcopal minister while behind bars, was the first to get out after 21 years (Kurtzman served 26 years). The body of. Once, he beat a priest senseless. Thirty-six hours later, detectives developed leads that implicated Pierre Haobsh, an Oceanside resident and a business acquaintance of Han, in the murders, which authorities say were motivated by financial gain. Haobsh was recently involved in a business transaction with Mr. Han, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a Friday briefing. Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher was murdered during the UC Santa Barbara shooting massacre, sat down with Peter Rodger, the father of the gunman. It was always in the back of my mind. Kathy Neely, who taught Emily for two years during preschool at the Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, remembers her as strong-willed, courageous, and having a joyful personality. She loved to play, Neely said. Weekly Poll While the Domingos-Edwards murders continue to drive speculation, the case remains unsolved. Old police interviews obtained by the Weekly show that the last day they were seen alive, Barry and Louise hung out with Pepe and a laid-back bunch of other strangers at Saline Valley's natural hot springs. Marcus Knutson, a FBI special agent, believes the killer may have a collection of crime scene tokens stashed away somewhere. I was messed up, he said, as tears formed in his eyes. I checked her out, of course, he says. He'd been having an affair, his marriage was in trouble and, he'd said, the stress was building and building., Pepe admitted that he had visited Saline Valley around New Year's but claimed not to remember where he camped. Not much is known about Frederick, but online searches show he founded the now-defunct oil company Cal Tech International Inc. and was an ex-CIA agent of Jordanian descent. It took a few days for the killing to seep into Santa Barbaras collective consciousness. The Marine captain seemed an unlikely suspect. Anyone with information is urged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov. In January 1983, as an Alaskan storm pounded California, Louise's daughter, Laura, 19 and pretty like her mother, decided to drive her VW fastback up the mountain to see her mom. Yanikians defense was diminished capacity brought on by the trauma he experienced as a genocide survivor. Hans mother encountered high rates of ovarian cancer in the women she treated, becoming a pioneering expert in the disease. Man on Death Row for 1980 Killing of Isla Vista Boy Found Dead in Prison Cell. 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 . 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. 1980 in Ventura, when Charlene Smith, 33, and her husband Lyman . faces new murder charges, this time in Santa Barbara County . The next day nobody saw the Bermans, who were assumed to be exploring. His father, liquor importer Jules Berman, became known as Mr. The first trial ended with a hung jury. We know that our guy took items, Knutson said on the FBI website. 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. 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. In the early 1940s, before her grisly murder in Los Angeles, Short spent a considerable amount of time in Santa Barbara County. Barry, who had chosen ironworking as his craft, settled into one of three weathered cottages on the El Capitan land overlooking the ocean. 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 . According to Bruce Albert, a Bureau of Land Management ranger who drove through that day, about 50 travelers were camping at Lower Warm Springs, whose waters fed an oasis of palm trees and hot tubs. Creators Bridget Dobson Jerome Dobson Stars A Martinez Marcy Walker Nancy Lee Grahn Barry and Louise had strong spiritual grounding 'what has to be has to be,' recalls Ray Castellino, a Santa Barbara natural health care practitioner. This summer, the 74-year-old former police officer pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder. For a while, Han worked with an herbal practitioner named Jean Yu, owner of the Herb Clinic. [1] In 1979, he killed a young woman from Los Angeles. 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. CBD is also found in marijuana, but in hemp, the levels of THCthe compound that gets users stonedare sufficiently low enough to be legal in the United States. Charismatic and manipulative, hed been conjuring schemes with a secret society he dubbed The Nine. He talked of building missiles and sodium bombs and trip wires. Sullivan even gave birth to her daughter in one of the cottages as Barry looked on. It was the last time they were seen alive. Life was good, with Barry focusing on his ironworking business, Valley Forgeworks, and hosting satsang meetings with Louise. Lyman and Charlene Smith were murdered in their Ventura home in March 1980. The deaths of Domingos and Edwards devastated the entire community. 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. No other details wereprovided. Mike: Well, they told me they had a boat, and they told me they were into astrology. When asked whether he could hear from his position behind protective glass, he said, Yes, I can. When asked if, at prosecutors request, he agreed to postpone his arraignment by two weeks, he said, Yes, I do.. Senior Skip Day is an event not officially sanctioned by local schools, but it's a day anticipated by many high school seniors. Powered by WordPress VIP. Three Murders That Made Santa Barbara Shiver Armenians and Greeks, Bullies and Editors, Teen Soldiers and Homeless by Nick Welsh | Published October 31, 2019 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. Any number of people could be a suspect, Zemaitis said. 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. There were people coming and going at all hours of the night.. The ammunition, Winchester Western Super X copper-coated bullets, matched the bullets used in the other Zodiac murders. It is mind-boggling that he committed so many crimes without a slip-up, Biondi said, adding that he still believes the killer can be brought to justice. 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. The family initially settled in Inglewood, California, and then moved to Solvang, where his father, Nis, ran a restaurant. 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. DNA testing initially showed that the Santa Barbara murders were committed by a killer separate from the Original Night Stalker. The citation noted that Christiansen had a .22 caliber pistol in his car, which was confiscated by the police. 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. It turned out to be Michael Joseph Pepe. That they intended to bag a Mexican became utterly beside the point. His bail is set at $1,000,000. Death finally came for a "condemned" inmate from Santa Barbara County convicted in the heinous 1980 murder of a 6 . She was shot twice in the head, sometime in April. Police found the murdered couple's grave nearby they were buried atop one another. According to Carlson, Han had been buying large quantities of hemp in China and shipping it to Burma, where it was processed into CBD-rich oils and other products. Search the newspapers of all the areas you know they lived or spent time in for things such as work or school. Name index of death index created by the California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section in Sacramento. Kahlua after turning the Mexican coffee-flavored drink into Americas top-selling liqueur. Staff Writer David Minsky can be reached at dminsky@santamariasun.com. 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. [9], 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. He wasnt passionate about the case, but it upset him that they didnt get back to him.. Han graduated from medical school in Beijing, where he grew up. They dined out every couple of months, often in the company of Paul Relis, cofounder of the Community Environmental Council. 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. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. Detectives are reopening the investigation into the decades-old unsolved killing of a teenage boy near Santa Barbara with the help of technology that didn't exist at the time. Authorities believe he could still be alive. Investigator Mottweiler, now retired, says, Pepe was evasive and ambiguous. 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. The photos provided a clue: Barry and Louise were wearing Nike sneakers. 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. Domingos still has family living in Lompoc who hold his memory dear. 1980 - June 9, 2000 Shot. I quickly took care of that, he says. Tramel and Kurtzman were tried as adults, found guilty, and sent away for a long time. In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. We were pretty sure he's the guy. But they had no bodies yet, and no evidence. But for the longest time, the killer has gotten away with it. Though more than a half-century-old, the mystery of the Zodiac lingers, and police believe he could still be at large. Han graduated from medical school, and in the early 1980s he became aware that two post-graduate positions opened up at UCSBs psychology department. It was a terrible irony when flash floods in a distant desert uncovered the remains of his friends. At his Forest Lawn funeral, 350 Armenian rights activists gathered to honor his crime. 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. Their deaths are tragic and mysterious. Until his arrest, American-born Pierre Haobsh lived with his French-born father, Frederick Smith, or Frederick Haobsh, in rented rooms of an Oceanside house. 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. Charlene Smith was bound . His political reporting was said to be terse, pointed, and fearless., In hindsight, it seems inevitable that Glancey and Gray would come to blows. 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. Lucas, Mottweiler, Ganner and the hiker drove up the Corridor for miles, beyond where most of the searching took place in 1986. He marked the spot with a cairn and carried the skull to camp. 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. Alcohol flowed, and people often wandered around bare-ass naked. Preston jumped out of the car and made it to the hospital; the bullet was removed and she recovered. She had. The deaths of Domingos and Edwards are more than just a grim footnote in Californias history. Soon De la Guerra Plaza was packed morning, noon, and night with homeless people and their supporters. Did the Zodiac Killer strike in Santa Barbara County? In an online video, retired Sacramento County Sheriffs Department detective Ray Biondi said he regrets not being able to solve the crimes. In 1960, when Barry was 10, his father segued into real estate by buying private Lake Arrowhead, a vast mountain hideaway for Southern California gentry such as the O'Malleys and Dohenys. Relis recalled Han telling him how his parents sneaked out late at night, armed only with flashlights and minimal medical equipment, to treat peasants living nearby. He looked for signers named Mike and found one who'd written down his address at a Marine Corps base. The three recounted here, however, hit us with their loud and obvious resonance with whats happening today on the world stage and right here in Santa Barbara. Grays role in community life, however, was more complicated than his rap sheet might suggest. Santa Barbara . On the witness stand, Tramel expressed shock and horror at Kurtzmans sudden savagery. Deputy Boyer tells the Weekly that thinking like a deviant led him to conclude that a perpetrator had hobbled the Bermans in the desert by removing their shoes. His mother was a talented ob-gyn, and his father was a dermatologist; medical practitioners went back in the Han family for many generations. 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