- Murderville USA: When multiple mass killers stalked Santa Cruz
From 1970 until early 1973, Santa Cruz was terrorized by two serial killers and one mass murderer, turning the once-sleepy beach town into the “murder capital of the world ”
- Mark William Cunningham - Wikipedia
Mark William Cunningham (born January 27, 1960) is an American serial killer and arsonist who shot and killed three men at random in Santa Cruz and Laguna Beach, California, between April and June 1983
- Murdersville, U. S. A. - SantaCruz. com
When Santa Cruz authorities collected Kemper (who some officers knew as “Big Ed,” their drinking buddy at the Jury Room) from Colorado and brought him back to Santa Cruz, he led them to various sites at which he had left pieces of his victims around the county and the state
- John Linley Frazier - Wikipedia
John Linley Frazier (January 26, 1946 – August 13, 2009), also known as The Killer Prophet, was an American mass murderer who killed five people in Santa Cruz County, California
- Man convicted of 2 Santa Cruz County murders linked to 1976 murder
A man convicted for two murders in Santa Cruz County in 1976 has now been linked to another murder from that year almost 50 years later Richard Sommerhalder was arrested in Sept of 1976
- Murdersville, USA: When Santa Cruz had two serial killers on the . . .
Santa Cruz was once dubbed ‘The Murder Capital of the World’, with both Edmund Kemper and Herbert Mullin stalking and killing their victims there in the early 1970s For almost a year between May 1972 and April 1973, Edmund Kemper killed and dismembered eight women
- Page 5 — Santa Cruz Sentinel 13 September 1985 — California Digital . . .
Danner said murder victim Father John Karastamatis, killed in his Greek Orthodox church on Church Street May 19, may have been a random victim The average citizen is still "probably much safer than in any metropolitan area," Danner said
- Yesterday’s Crimes: The Santa Cruz Serial Killer Epidemic
From 1970-73, Santa Cruz was plagued by a trio of brutal mass murderers This is the first in a three-part series Sheriff’s deputies were the first to arrive on Monday, Oct 20, 1970 at the scene of the fire at 999 Rodeo Gulch Road, a $300,000 flagstone home (now worth over $2 million) in Soquel hills overlooking Santa Cruz and the ocean
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