He committed his first three murders in late 1976 and early 1977, killing young women of similar appearance from nearby Isla Vista. As Carlson described it, He went underground for a while. Carlson and Han established a lasting friendship as well as medical relationship. It was surreal, she recalls. While the Domingos-Edwards murders continue to drive speculation, the case remains unsolved. -1 Likes, 0 Comments - Santa Barbara HS Young Life (@sbdonsyounglife) on Instagram: "MURDER MYSTERY CLUB TONIGHT!!! Today, the cliffside cottages are owned by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but long ago the land was home to Chumash Indians. For a while, Han worked with an herbal practitioner named Jean Yu, owner of the Herb Clinic. 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. Louise Berman turned 52 five days before she and her husband set out for the desert on Jan. 3, 1986. A nightmare beyond a nightmare.. 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. From the lack of any kind of clues, I think they were taken out of the area and probably killed somewhere else, he said. 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. 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. His killer was not identified. During his trial, Yanikian sought to represent himself as a philosopher king. 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. 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. And the forensics team found an item of spine-chilling significance: a handcuff key. To Han, it was all valuable information that could help with the diagnosis. Barry and Louise came together in Santa Barbara in the 1980s through the same guru master. 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. It was a terrible irony when flash floods in a distant desert uncovered the remains of his friends. The body was discovered first, lacking a head. Westerman, Louise's son from her first of four marriages, still chokes up remembering her. Susan Pater, at her Southwest Portland home, holds a picture of her sister, Barbara Mae Tucker, who was murdered in 1980. Instead, Yanikian yanked out his Luger, secreted in a hollowed-out copy of Whos Who in the West, and fired nine rounds at the diplomats. On Dec. 30, 1979, Debra Manning and Robert Offerman were killed in Goleta, near Santa Barbara. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. It was devastating. In 1991, he bought out Yu, who moved to San Luis Obispo. Both came from messed-up families. Wilson, and left in a state of insensibility., Originally from Illinois, Glancey had the personality and physique of an ax handle. 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. However, his arrest came about when Lydia Preston called investigators on July 11, 1979, stating she saw her attacker at a bar in Hollywood. She was a vagabond and lived in Vallejo, San Francisco, and Miami. 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. The next morning, four of those students reported the crime to police, turning over the perpetrators bloodstained clothes as evidence. 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/. At age 8, he watched Turks slit the throat of his older brother. In his possession was a loaded 9mm and property that detectives believe belonged to the Hans, said Brown. 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. He had spent more than 20 years trying to make a Hollywood film depicting the Armenian genocidethree million dead, killed by the Turks in 1915. 1980-1984 [ edit] Pastel drawing of scar Romero, murdered Archbishop. 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. Jules Berman also sprang into action, arranging his own plane to bring in a group of family and friends, then returning to Saline Valley in a Winnebago to join a private search party. 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. Preston jumped out of the car and made it to the hospital; the bullet was removed and she recovered. 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. On Nov. 12, 1988, a hiker stumbled upon a human skull. Described as argumentatively gifted, Glancey was a radical Republican, a strict abolitionist, and an even stricter teetotaler. During this time, Christiansen gained a great deal of weight, at one point weighing 275 pounds (125 kg). Former sheriff's deputy Boyer says, Pepe has skated and skated and skated. One lucky, FAMILY AFFAIR: INSIDE SNOOP DOGG AND HIS BOSS LADY, By continuing to use our site, you agree to our, Newsom Ends 3-Year COVID-19 State of Emergency In California, Vanessa Bryant And L.A. 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His crimes motivated large demonstrations opposed to violence against women, and in favor of better transportation for the young people residing in Isla Vista. 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. Like many familiar with herbal cures, Han understood hemp plants contain psychoactively inert chemicals known as cannabidiols, or CBDs. His friend Pat Brown, governor of California, appointed him to the state athletic commission. 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. Accordingly, the killings in Isla Vista were dubbed the "look-alike" murders. The gazebo in Alameda park circa 1985 | Photo: Christopher Gardner. Again, there were horrified objections from the Press. 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. 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. 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. The notorious "Golden State Killer" was behind serial rapes and murders across California in the 1970s and 1980s -- but decades passed before a suspect was identified. Domingos was your all-American high school student. We were pretty sure he's the guy. But they had no bodies yet, and no evidence. At the time, he was described as a white male with blond hair and in good physical condition, articulate, well dressed, and clean-cut. Note: An earlier version of this story said Mary Sullivan gave birth in Barry Berman's cottage. Memorials for family and friends who have lost family and friends to murder. 7:27PM @ 676 Circle Dr. Park responsibly and bring" 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. National homeless rights advocate Mitch Snyder vowed to wage a massive civil disobedience campaign in the city. She went from house to house, staying on friends couches. It was just the kind of guy he was.. 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. 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. 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. Eventually she made it back to California. An Eagle Scout, he had told Tramel earlier that night that he knew about gutting a deer. The unnamed woman repeated to the Weekly what she told long-ago investigators: Mike the Marine told us he'd been in a threesome. 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. 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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is continuing the search for the suspect who murdered Kym Morgan in Santa Barbara in 1985. She reported the sighting to police and he was later arrested. 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. 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. Yanikian was found guilty of murder and received a life sentence. The point being, the more things change, the more they dont. Site by Michael Stephensons body was found in the gazebo at Alameda Park, where he had been stabbed 16 times and had his throat cut with sufficient force to sever his spinal cord. 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 . A year later, the crimes moved south to Santa Barbara County. They were the nicest young people you could ever meet in your life, Gnesa said. That they intended to bag a Mexican became utterly beside the point. So if for some reason [someone]whether their family member is deceased or theyre cleaning out a storage unitcome[s] across a weird collection of items such as womens IDs, rings, earringsanything thats out of the ordinaryit could be significant.. Saline Valley was peaceful Chili Bob had a two-way radio but mainly used it for medical emergencies. 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. Dad did research and called the FBI, but they never called back, Zemaitis told the Sun. On Jan. 5, 1986, Barry and Louise drove through the tiny outpost of Panamint Springs, and about 20 miles later left the pavement for a 50-mile dirt road trek into Saline Valley. Anyone with information is urged to call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or submit tips online at tips.fbi.gov. His mother was a talented ob-gyn, and his father was a dermatologist; medical practitioners went back in the Han family for many generations. Zodiackiller.com, however, points to another manRichard Gaikowski, a former Bay Area newspaper reporterwho died in 2004. 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. I checked her out, of course, he says. But she, too, developed no solid evidence. It was the murder of a homeless man in a city decried for its homeless laws in the county where the president lived. 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. Domingos was 18 and Edwards was 17. Trew Knowledge. Alcohol flowed, and people often wandered around bare-ass naked. 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. 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. According to Carlson, this has long been the Holy Grail of the cosmetics industry. They were young adults who had dreams and aspirations. Copyright Santa Maria Sun. Bobby was always thoughtful.. In person, he radiated a calming clinical confidence. In 1880, Gray again sought his partys nomination for District Attorney. 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. 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. Lucas found the skull jauntily arranged atop a picnic table with flowers in its eye sockets and a patch of moss for a hairpiece. 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. 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. Blondes, Brunettes and Burlesque at Peek-A-View, Hakeem Rowe Talks Insane Career Arc and His Departure From No Jumper, ASTN is Happier Than Ever about his newest release Be So Cruel, RealestK Isnt Nearly As Toxic As TikTok Is, Erykah Badu Drops That Badu Cannabis Line, Best HHC Products to Elevate Your Cannabis Experience, CA Legal Cannabis Faces Its Biggest Blizzard Yet, Understanding The Possible Allergies To Hemp Oil. Louise and Barry Berman at the ashram in India known as the Dera. Lucas, Mottweiler, Ganner and the hiker drove up the Corridor for miles, beyond where most of the searching took place in 1986. Yanikians plan was simple. But as retired deputy Boyer recently said, it's not that unusual for people to take off into the desert and never come back.. 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. Last year, both parents died, one two weeks after the other. Neither Frederick Smith nor Courtney responded to questions from The Santa Barbara Independent. A fifth intended victim escaped with a bullet in her head, and later identified him in a Los Angeles bar. 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. 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. By injecting skin cells obtained through stem-cell harvesting into the cosmetics, Han believed it was possible to repair and replace damaged tissue. Did the Zodiac Killer strike in Santa Barbara County? Glancey stumbled into the Morris Hotel at State and Haley and collapsed in the reading room. Gray moved to San Francisco, but the cataclysmic fire of 1906 destroyed his health, and he died in Sacramento one year later. I saw results within a week, he said. The relationship was sweet they were good partners, says Sullivan, then an El Capitan dweller and now an acupuncturist in North Fork, California. It focused on the citys ordinance against camping or sleeping outside. Yet it wasn't until eight days after their disappearance that a search-and-rescue team headed by Sgt. 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. As hope of finding the couple alive faded, Jules Berman formed a dark theory about their fate. He wasnt passionate about the case, but it upset him that they didnt get back to him.. Clarence Gray ranks as one of the great villains in Santa Barbara history, yet few people know his name. Yanikians defense was diminished capacity brought on by the trauma he experienced as a genocide survivor. Dental records confirmed the remains were Barry and Louise. She was a totally non-violent person, so alive, a source told the Santa Maria Times in a January 1980 article. When Han, normally precise and punctual, did not show, the partners grew concerned. Then more teams descended, not to mention helicopters from the Navy, Army and California Highway Patrol. The California historical newspaper archives are great for people whose families settled in the west, especially during the gold rush. 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. He said Jennie would bring Emily every week to eat at his Hollister Avenue restaurant. 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. Two million words I have written, and nobody pays attention, Yanikian testified during his trial. A Hispanic woman's body was found on March 31, 1988 in Santiago Park, Santa Ana, Orange County, California. But their happiness was soon shattered. Gnesa was a part of the party that found the bodies of Domingos and Edwards. No one saw Barry and Louise that day. They dined out every couple of months, often in the company of Paul Relis, cofounder of the Community Environmental Council. Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced . This summer, the 74-year-old former police officer pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder. She was shot twice in the head, sometime in April. In fact, Han personally intervened to help Relis and his wife adopt a baby girl from China 19 years ago. Creators Bridget Dobson Jerome Dobson Stars A Martinez Marcy Walker Nancy Lee Grahn 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 . Charlene Smith was bound . If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. Thirty years later, the FBI, in conjunction with police from Contra Costa and Sacramento counties, announced in June a national campaign to identify the killer. He didnt want them to suffer, he later testified, but he also told the jury, I destroyed two evils. They had families and friends. When they left their school on West Mission Street dressed in ninja black, they were on the hunt for Latino gang members whod roughed up a schoolmate the previous night. Instead, he sought out Henry Han. When Gray moved to Santa Barbara in 1870, he was described as reckless, unscrupulous, audacious, brilliant, enterprising, and witty. An attorney by profession, Gray represented clients who were described as gamblers, members of the sporting set, and habitus of saloons. In less than 10 years, Gray himself was arrested more than 20 times, mostly for fighting. It was a very short interview, Williams says. Michael Westerman says his mom and Barry were two souls headed in the same direction. That direction led them to the vanishing point. 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. 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. We worked and worked and worked.. We are still best friends, he said. 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. He was very smug., Some of Barry and Louise's fellow spiritualists believe that, in the truest sense, they are still alive. While some students basked together on the beach, Bobby Domingos and Linda Edwards instead went to a different beach by themselves. One of his first patients was Steve Carlson, then an administrator at UCSB, who was struggling with hepatitis A. Like Barry, she was a rebel. More than two months later, in late December, the Santa Maria Times reported that 35-year-old Santa Maria psychologist Alexandria Manning and 44-year-old Dr. Robert Offerman were found murdered, shot multiple times, in a residence located on Avenida Pequena in Goleta. Copyright 2023 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. 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. Short would dress in all black and wear a black flower in her hair. The ammunition, Winchester Western Super X copper-coated bullets, matched the bullets used in the other Zodiac murders. If they did, I could shoot a German delicatessen owner and have witnesses say I was justified.. Everybody loved him, he said. Santa Barbara area voters defeated it by a wide margin. Memorial Wall for Murder Victims. [1] In 1979, he killed a young woman from Los Angeles. Then, using Korb's directions to a natural hot springs, they'd see Saline Valley in the Mojave. Domingos cousin, who didnt want to be identified for this story, is now in his 70s and lives in Lompoc. 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. Minier later expressed regret over his tactics; Yanikian was guilty of murder, he wrote in editorials, but the genocide should have been acknowledged. 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.. 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. A federal prosecutor told the Weekly that the double murder didn't happen in her jurisdiction, so it wasn't up to her to act on it. Theres significant evidence to suggest CBDs have healing powers when it comes to tumors, seizures, psychosis, anxiety, and inflammation. Unlike some herbalists and acupuncture practitioners who saw themselves as distinct from traditional Western medicine, he practiced an East-West blend of practices. BLM ranger Albert, now retired, calls it the largest search effort in Inyo County history., Lucas, who rose to Inyo County sheriff before retiring in Arkansas, today says: I kept calling in more and more people. In 2018, Joseph DeAngelo was arrested. He finally settled on murder. He told the Santa Barbara News-Press that he feared Barry and Louise had been abducted while hunting artifacts. . 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. Minutes later, he shot her in the ear. Its believed that the Golden State Killer would sometimes call his victims homes pretending he had called a wrong number. I could feel the energy of their spirits, Margolis tells the Weekly now. 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 . Tramel thought to bring along Kurtzmans 10-inch hunting knife, the blade blackened in the flame of a eucalyptus candle. He looked for signers named Mike and found one who'd written down his address at a Marine Corps base. The body of. There is some doubt about this, since the Zodiac never took credit for the murders. Ive been waiting 30 minutes. Actually, Yanikian had been waiting considerably longer than that. 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. 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. Above Lower Springs, about a dozen campers orbited the less-developed Palm Spring oasis. 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. Now, spurred by L.A. Weekly's three-month investigation into the double murders, and 17 years after family patriarch Jules Berman died, Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze has reactivated the troubling cold case. Han graduated from medical school, and in the early 1980s he became aware that two post-graduate positions opened up at UCSBs psychology department. Given the circumstances of her death, Shorts murder became sensational, and she was given the name Black Dahlia. 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. This put him sideways with Chinese authorities. Ultimately, City Hall backed down on its ordinance. Last Wednesday, Hahn had an appointment to meet his partners in one of these ventures. He was held in a Santa Barbara County jail on $500,000 bond. 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 . It was the fourth time Gray had assaulted Russell. 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. By 20, Yanikian had seen thousands of dead Armenians26 bodies were members of his own family. The letters usually included ciphers that he claimed contained clues to his identity. Lucas' team jimmied open the Datsun and found two cameras with undeveloped film inside. Young women of similar appearance from nearby Isla Vista were dubbed the Nine pounds ( 125 kg ), 'd! 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