Other OC Crimes

Arrests Made in 2 Sexual Assault Cases. Rapes are Unrelated to Rash of Attacks in Irvine, Authorities Say.
By Nancy Wride
Los Angeles Times, 17 September 1983, p. OC A1

Arrests were made Friday morning in the unrelated kidnapping-rapes of a 14 year old Huntington Beach girl and a Costa Mesa woman, authorities said.
Neither of the two men arrested was considered a suspect in any of the five sexual assaults hat occurred in Irvine in a 48-hour period earlier this week, police said. There have been no arrests in those attacks, which authorities believe are unrelated, and investigators Friday said they had no suspects and no new leads.
“To be honest with you, we’re not getting anywhere,” said Irvine police Lt. Robert Lennert. “In some respects –although people become more paranoid and terrorized—its easier to have one suspect because you can put things together for a bigger picture of things. But we are dealing with at least four different (suspects) and probably five.”
‘Hard to Figure’
In attempting to explain the rash of sexual attacks, Lennert and an academic expert in rape suggested Friday that publicity surrounding the first “two or three” incidents and the escape Monday of a rape suspect from the Orange County Jail might have triggered the later assaults.
“When there’s more than one person involved, it’s pretty hard to figure, said Dr. Kaushal Sharma, former assistant director of the USC Institute of Psychiatry and the Law.
“The more publicity there is, (the more that) people who have fantasies about doing this to a woman but have been able to control them somehow allow themselves to let go,” said Sharma, who often testifies as an expert witness in rape cases for Los Angeles County.
Patrols Strengthened
“They’ve been on the borderline, hiding in the woodwork,” he added, “but with the publicity, the fear (of arrest) is outweighed by the excitement of the attention and knowing that other people are out there (getting away) with it.”
Four investigators and a sergeant were to work all weekend on solving the Irvine assaults, which occurred between 11 a.m. Monday and 11 a.m. Wednesday. Lennert said he and five other detectives will be on standby if there is a break in the investigation.
Patrols remain at extra strength in neighborhoods where the attacks occurred, Lennert said, and Explorer Scouts were to circulate warning bulletins to residents of Culverdale , site of the most recent Irvine assault. “We’ve got just about everyone out there,” Lennert said.
In the first rape arrest early Friday morning, sheriff’s deputies captured a 27-year-old salesman, who allegedly raped a `woman he met at a South Laguna restaurant, officials said.
Sheriff’s Lt. Wyatt Hart said the suspect entered the Crown House on Thursday afternoon and threatened to kill a 25-year-old Costa Mesa woman if she did not leave with him.
Hart said the man was armed. The woman was not identified. There were other patrons in the restaurant at the time, but Hart said the stranger ordered the woman to leave quietly with him.
The woman was driven around South Laguna sometime after #:30 p.m. before her assailant took her to his home, tied her up and raped her, Hart said. He drove the woman home later and she called authorities. She was examined at a nearby hospital and later released.
South Laguna Man Arrested
Officials said the woman and her assailant did not know each other before the encounter in the restaurant.
About nine hours later, deputies arrested John Greenwood Macleod near his south Laguna home, Hart said. He was booked into the orange county Jail on suspicion of kidnap and rape. Bail was set at $25,000.
In the second case, a machine shop owner was taken into custody about 5:45 a.m. in connection with the Thursday afternoon rape of a 14-year-old Huntington Beach girl who accepted a ride from a man who posed as an off-duty police officer, authorities said.
Ronald Dean Cantrell, 29, was arrested when he walked out of the Cypress home he shares with his wife and three children. He was booked into Huntington Beach City Jail on suspicion of kidnap and rape, said police Sgt. Ed McErlain. Bail was set at $25,000.
Displayed Badge
McErlain said the attacker told the girl, who was walking home from school, that a woman had been robbed by two gunmen still in the area. As he offered her a ride home, the man displayed a badge and had a C.B. radio inside his red van that apparently convinced the girl that he was to be trusted.
The man pulled a knife on the girl and ordered her to the back of the van, where the attack took place, McErlain said. Later, he drove off, and when the van turned a corner, the girl pushed open the cargo doors and jumped onto the busy street, police said.
There were several witnesses, including a woman who followed the van in her car long enough to get part of the license plate, which led special enforcement team detectives to Cantrell, McErlain said.
There doesn’t appear to be any connection with the Irvine cases,” McErlain said Friday. “The descriptions just don’t match at all.”
Causes Speculated
Authorities Friday said they could only guess as to what might have touched off the outburst of sexual violence. It could be “just a quirk,” Lennert said, or some sort of copycat spree fueled by media attention.
“We’re just brainstorming on this one, but the only thing we can really come up with this that it may be because of the coverage it’s getting and the excitement it generates,” Lennert said.
Sharma, who has psychiatric practices in Newport Beach and Los Angeles, said: “My feeling is that the first, second and third (attacks) were maybe coincidence, but more toward four, five and up, it’s no longer coincidence. (Beyong that), not uncommonly, will be the type to say, ‘A lot of other people are doing it.’
“But once there is an arrest,” he added, “the fear becomes more than the excitement and (the incidents) will go down.

This article is included for two reasons. First the two murders (Anderson and Neufeld) were originally thought to be Bedroom Basher crimes.Both crimes predate the bulk of the BB crimes which started right after the Anderson murder. The Anderson case is even presented on the Cold Case Files episode in a background newspaper clipping. That crime was later solved when a workman at the Anderson home was arrested and later convicted of the crime. The Neufeld case is still unsolved and in 2006 her family tried using a psychic to solve the case (see www.blinkx.com/burl?v=EqOx8fPCPSAXbX05Y63Oi4CVOtxUZ5-4Errurw ) and that effort was featured on a tv show on the Discovery Channel called Sensing Murder. That case shows that there were other OC home invasion bludgeon murders that are still unsolved.


Police Try to Link Bludgeon Murders
By Gary Jarlson
Los Angeles Times, 14 March 1979, pg. OC A6
Fountain Valley—A possible connection between the bludgeon murder of a 28-year-old Fountain Valley housewife and other, similar Orange County homicides is being investigated, police said Tuesday.
Capt. John Beddow of the Fountain Valley Police Department said his investigators are looking into several unsolved murders as they seek leads and possible suspects in the killing of Joan Virginia Anderson.
The pajama-top-clad body of Mrs. Anderson , the mother of two small children, was found last Thursday in the bedroom of her home at 16587 Hemlock Street. She had been killed by a blow to the back of the head, according to the coroner’s office.
One of the cases being compared to Mrs. Anderson’s murder involved Patricia Neufeld, 34, a garden Grove housewife who was beaten to death in her home a few days before Thanksgiving.
“There are similarities between the two cases (but) there also are several dissimilarities,” Beddow said.
Police believe Mrs. Anderson was killed Wednesday night while she and her 3-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter were alone in the home. The children were not harmed.
Mrs. Anderson’s body was discovered by neighbors after her son, Mark, was found wandering on a neighborhood street Thursday morning.
The vicitm’s husband, Mark Anderson, who was working in Northern California at the time of the murder, has since returned to Fountain Valley.
Beddow said the ten investigators on the case “have quite a few leads but no frm suspects so far.” A criminalist and a fingerprint expert were going over the house a second time, Beddow said, adding that the residence is to be fumigated with a special chemical that can enhance fingerprints.

Slayings of 7 Women to Be Focus of Probe
By Gary Jarlson
Los Angeles Times, 9 October 1979, pg. OC A1.

Faced with the murders of seven women and attacks on another four, six police departments and the Sheriff’s Department will meet today with the aim of organizing a task force to investigate the crimes.
The cases, which date back more than two years, are similar in some aspects. The victims were mostly young women, they were alone at the time of the attack and they were severely beaten with some sort of blunt instrument.
Not all of the attacks follow the pattern exactly, but even those cases with dissimilarities will be reviewed by officers from Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Irvine, Garden Grove, Fountain Valley, Tustin, and the Sheriff’s Department.
The most recent case involved a 24-year-old Tustin woman, Debra Jean Kennedy, whose body was found Sunday night in a house she shared with her sister. Investigators said she was killed by a blow to the head.
This attack followed by one week an assault on another Tustin woman, 20-year-old Diana Green. Mrs. Green survived the attack and is critical condition, but her unborn baby died [note this was before her husband became the prime suspect- they got it right the first time but Green was charged within a month.]
The cases to be reviewed at today’s meeting include:
—Jane Bennington, 29, who was killed in her Newport Beach apartment in August 1977 [not the Bedroom Basher- still unsolved in 2007]
—Patricia Neufeld, 34, who was beaten to death in her Garden Grove home on Nov. 22, 1978. [still unsolved—Sensing Murder (Discovery Channel) covered this case in a 2006 episode, apparently making vague claims to links with the Bedroom Basher]
—Joan Anderson, 28, who was beaten to death last March 7 while she was home alone in Fountain Valley [solved but not a BB crime]
—Kimberley Rawlins, 21, whose body was discovered by her roommate in their Costa Mesa apartment, April 1. [Bedroom Basher crime]
—Savannah Anderson, 22, who was killed on May 14 at her apartment in Irvine. [not a Bb attacker- solved with killer arrested in 1984].
—Marolyn Carleton, 34, who was found dead Sept 14 by her 9-year-old son in their Costa Mesa apartment [BB crime].
In addition to Mrs. Green in Tustin, the victims who survived attacks live in Irvine, Costa Mesa and Santa Ana Heights. [I’ve never heard of this Irvine survivor case. I wonder if that’s where the bad sketch (showing a man who looked nothing like Gerald Parker) came from?]
Only one of the survivors, the woman in Irvine, has been able to help police. She described her attacker as a 5-foot-10 while male in his 20s with a slender build and medium-length blond hair. [for this sketch see www.jjmcgr.org/BK/BB%20sketch%2016%20Oct%2079.pdf]
The four Costa Mesa attacks, plus one that occurred there in 1977 but is not believed related to the others, happened within a four block area.

Fear of Killer Grips Orange Coast: Sale of Guns and Locks Soar
By Joy Horowitz
Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1979, pg. OC A1, A25-6

A Tustin woman, who recently bought a .357-magnum revolver, fired at a shadow on her living room wall the other night and the bullet punctured her neighbor’s TV set.
At Golden West College in Huntington Beach, the weekly class that offers instruction on how to use tear gas is so oversubscribed that the next opening won’t be until sometime in December.
Handguns at Costa Mesa gun shops have been “selling like hotcakes,” says a police officer, who is concerned that women who don’t know how to handle guns are buying them, adding that he’d prefer that they learn how to use Mace rather than arm themselves with “home protection” pistols.
Dead-bolt locks are in such demand that at Kerm Rima Hardware on Harbor Blvd., store manager Dick Woldfelt says he can’t keep his stock supplied properly.
‘Pretty Spooky’
“We’re completely out of single-sided dead-bolts,” he says. “We had about 600 window locks last Saturday and we’re out of them now, too, even though we’ve filled them three times in the past two weeks. It’s 90% women who are coming in and buying them. People are really paranoid. It’s pretty spooky.”
The cause of the wave of suspicion and fear among residents of Costa Mesa and neighboring Orange County communities stems from the methodically vicious attacks by the so-called Orange Coast Killer, whose assaults against young women in the past six months have claimed the lives of five and scarred the lives of three survivors.
The killer’s most recent victim, 17-year-old Debra Lynn Senior, was bludgeoned to death and then raped in her Costa Mesa apartment Oct 21. ever since her body was discovered by her roommate, the mood of area residents seems to border on terror, evidenced by the empty residential streets by night and the tightly shuttered homes by day.
Common Link
The only common link among the victims, police say, is that they all lived in ground-floor apartments. Most of them were struck on the head with a blunt object and sexually assaulted.
Since none of the cases showed evidence of break-ins, police have concluded that the attacker managed to strike on weekends during the late-night or early-morning hours by entering through unlocked doors or windows.
Having mounted a door-to-door campaign during the past week to notify apartment dwellers of the violent assaults and to seek information on the killer, police in Costa mesa find themselves treading that fine line between warning residents to protect themselves and inciting panic.
“We’re hoping to alleviate the panic,” says Costa Mesa Police Lt. Jack Calnon, “but the thing that worries me is the gun sales. Somebody could overreact there’s a tense mood in this city now, and I don’t know how long it’s going to last.”
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Just about anywhere one goes in Costa mesa, conversation inevitably turns to the Orange Coast Killer. Local bars, restaurants, and business establishments all have posted a police bulletin with a sketch of the suspect, developed from descriptions by witnesses.
The suspect, who is presumed to be between 25 and 30 years old and stands about 5-foot-10, is said to weigh 165 pounds, have dark eyes, dark hair, a mustache, a light olive complexion and pockmarks on his cheeks.
Concerned that the suspect has changed his identity, last weekend the local newspaper—the Daily Pilot—offered readers an artist’s sketch of the killer minus the mustache and long hair.
Besides the most recent murder case of Debra Senior, police have tied the rapist to the cases of:
—Waitress Jane Ellen Bennington, 29, who was raped and murdered in her Corona del Mar apartment in August 1977.
—Kimberly Gaye Rawlins, a 21-year-old shipping clerk slain in her Costa Mesa apartment, April 1, 1979.
—Savannah Leigh Anderson, 22, accredit checking service employee who announced her engagement days before she was raped and murdered in her Irvine apartment May 14.
—Kim Whitecotton, 20, who was attacked in her Santa Ana Heights apartment in May, 1979. She survived.
—Jan Pettengill, 24, who survived her attack in July in her Costa Mesa apartment.
—Marolyn Carleton, 31, a widow, slain in her Costa Mesa apartment Sept. 14.
—Diana Green, 20, bludgeoned in her Tustin apartment sept 30. She survived, but her unborn infant daughter died.
—Debra Jean Kennedy, 24, raped and murdered in her Tustin apartment.
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The red-and-yellow police seals bordering the doors and windows to the Maple St. apartment where Debra Senior was killed provide an eerie reminder to Maple St. residents, most of them young couples or single women living in small, two-story apartment buildings.
Like so many other residents of the area, machine operator Darlene Powell, 22, cautiously peeks out from behind her closed living room curtains before answering her door, lit even in the daylight by an outside lamp that rarely is switched off. She lives with her boyfriend in the apartment next door to where Debra senior was murdered.
Asked what she and her boyfriend have done since her neighbor was killed, she replies, “Nothing really. We got dead bots. We got a gun.”
She explains that she’d prefer not having a gun in her house, that buying it was the boyfriend’s idea, but she hastens to add that she’ll learn how to use it this weekend.
“Most people are just moving out,” she says. “They’re anxious to get away from here. My boyfriend—he wants to move. I don’t. This guy’s got to be watching everybody real close. He’s got to be all over. There’s no point in running.
“I don’t think I’m as scared as I should be. My boyfriend worries enough for both of us. But I’m never here by myself, ever, and when I come home, I honk the horm and he comes to get me.”
Across the street in an apartment complex filled with students and young women, Michelle Polich, a 22-year-old waitress, explains that the neighborhood looks like a ghost town at night when everyone holes up in apartments.
“What can I do?” she shrugs. “I’m not going to stay in the house and be totally petrified all the time. I’m not scared when I’m with somebody, but last night I was alone I kept hearing weird noises. I guess it was just the wind.
“My parents are freaking, and my grandfather wants me out of here, but everybody kind of looks out for each other around here. Everybody’s really friendly. Everybody’s always home, playing music. I think if anything happened, somebody would be around.”
Just across the courtyard, the attitudes of Claire Antista, 40, and her 19-year-old daughter are far less casual. Mrs. Antista explains to a reporter that she slept at her daughter’s`apartment the night before because she didn’t want to be alone in her apartment.
“The only thing that’s good that’s come out of this is people are more cautious now,” says Karen, who not only has three locks on her front door, but nailed on the screens in front of her windows sand put a makeshift broomstick in the bottom casing of the sliding glass window above her bed. “I used to sleep with my window open. I don’t think I ever will again. My biggest worry now is walking from my car to the apartment.”
“The only way to describe what people are going through here is fear,” adds her mother, who explains that she lived in West Covina few years ago when the “Azusa Rapist” broke into her apartment one weekend when she was out of town.
“The thing I stress most to my daughters is don’t think it can’t happen to you. Don’t think for one minute you won’t be next.”
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From 6 to 10 p.m. every night since Debra Senior’s body was found, Costa Mesa police reserve officers and Explorers have combed the neighborhoods door-to-door, instructing apartment dwellers how to protect their homes and informing them of the recent assaults against women.
On a recent weeknight, reserve officer Tim Goodwin, holding a wad of police bulletins with the suspect’s sketch to be distributed, knocks on an apartment door of 20-year-old Susan McCrady, a bookkeeper who lives with her boyfriend.
”Who is it?,” she asks before opening the door.
“Police,” comes the reply.
Goodwin launches into his warnings about the kikller. He instructs McCrady that dead-bolt locks, which are not on her door, are a “must.” He tells her to be aware of possible persons watching her and to see if she can’t get license-plate numbers.
“OK, you’re making me nervous,” she says. “I’ve been watching around town for this guy. The people next door were broken into over the summer. I usually leave my door open, but now it’s locked and I keep the curtains closed. Thanks a lot.”
Despite the insistence of some people that their apartments are secure, Goodwin points out to a reporter screenless bathroom windows that are wide open.
On the next apartment, the home of Terrie and Joe Aridizzone. Before Goodwin utters a word, Mrs. Aridizzone says. “I don’t have bolts on my door, which is really bad . . . If this guy’s caught, I’ll kiss you guys. Would a frying pan help?”
After warning them to keep their doors and windows locked at all times, Goodwin adds, “I don’t mean to scare you.”
“You don’t need to scare us,” says Aridizzone. “We’re already petrified.”
Over on Avocado St., where two of the murders have taken place, 24-year-old housewife Evelyn Hodges mops her kitchen floor with her front door open.
“If my husband came home and saw the door open, he’d have a fit,” she says. “I think I’m too trusting.”
Pointing to the “for rent” signs across the street, she says that she and her husband plan on moving soon. “Anybody would be foolish to move into this neighborhood.” She says, “adding that at night people no longer walk to the nearby liquor store or take after-dinner strolls.
Now she no longer goes out at night or stays home alone. “I go next door when my husband goes to school,” she says. “I think it’s silly, but I do it.”
Down the street, a 60-year-old woman, who asks not to be identified, sits in her tiny apartment, watching a daytime soap opera and smoking cigarettes. She lives in the same apartment complex where Kimberley Rawlins was killed last April.
She shows a reporter the recently purchased red desk lamp that she shines on her bedroom window all night to protect herself.
“On the weekends, I’m really afraid of going to sleep,” she says. “I know the attacker is going after younger women, but it still frightens the heck out of me. I’m frightened of everyone when I go out. I go to the grocery store and if there’s men around outside, I’m scared to get into my car.
“I was scared before, but now I am terrified. It’s a paranoia. It’s not a normal fear. I’m disabled, so I can’t very well learn karate. It’s hell to be a woman and be so defenseless in this day and age. Damn!
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In the hills above the Irvine Ranch, at the south coast Gun Club, 18-year-old college student Kathy Thompson stands with her legs straddled, her body stiffened and her arms outstretched with the $50 .22 caliber pistol her boyfriend bought her last weekend at a gun show held at the Orange County Fairgrounds.
Wearing earplugs, she fires off a round of bullets at a target more than 50 yards away. Her boyfriend, 21-year-old Tom Rost, sits beside her, giving her pointers on how to use the weapon.
“I never realized this murderer was so close to my home until I heard what happened in Costa Mesa,” she says, explaining that she lives in nearby Huntington Beach. “You just have to be prepared. My little fist can’t protect me.”
“I can’t believe this guy could be in the supermarket we shop at in Costa Mesa,”she says after picking up an M-71 replica of a machine gun and firing off a blast. “Last night I wanted to take a walk and he (Rost) said ‘No way.’ When he’s not around, I’m scared to death.
“But now I’m gonna keep this pistol by my bed or in the closet. I really wanted a little pearl-handled gun ‘cause they’re strictly ladies’ guns. This gun is just in case anything happens. You never know. You just never know.”

Captions (photos by Larry Armstrong and Bruce Hazelton)

Practice—Eighteen-year-old Kathy Thompson of Huntington Beach, fearful of assault, now owns revolver.

Who’s There? —A Costa Mesa woman, like others in the area, worries about strangers outside.

A Reminder—Police seals now border door to victim Lynn Senior’s Costa Mesa home.

Assignments—Costa Mesa police officers pick routes for neighborhood bulletin distribution.

Assault Victim: Bludgeoner is Eliminated in One Case
By J. Michael Kennedy
Los Angeles Times, 1 December 1979, pg. OC-A1

Tustin—The assault of a 20-year-old pregnant woman last September which caused the still birth of the child she was carrying, was eliminated Friday as the acto f the bludgeon murderer who has killed six Orange county women in the last two years.
Tustin police said they had charged Kevin Green, 21, with the assault of his wife Diana, and the murder of their unborn child. Green, a Marine Corps corporal, was arrested Friday afternoon.
The assault on Mrs. Green had previously been blamed on the bludgeon killer, but police working on the case had never been able to tell for sure.
The woman was found in her Tustin apartment Sept. 30, unconscious from a blow by a blunt instrument. Police said Friday they were unable to disclose more information about the case, including why it took so long to arrest Green and whether Mrs. Green had ever volunteered any information to them.
Police Sgt. Len Gardner said more details should be available early next week.
“However, it should be noted that Kevin Green is in no way implicated in the other bludgeonings here in Orange County,” Gardner said.
Five of the six killings attributed to the bludgeoner have occurred since April 1, and three of the victims lived within a mile-square area of Costa Mesa and Wilson St.
The man being sought is described as 25 to 30 years old, 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 and 165 pounds with a muscular build. He has dark eyes, dark hair and mustache, an olive complexion and acne pockmarks on his cheeks, police theorize.

Baby Sitter, 25, is Found Dead in Santa Ana
By Nancy Wride
Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1984, pg. OC A1, A8

A 25-year-old live-in baby sitter was bound, stabbed and bludgeoned to dead while caring for her daughter and four other children in their Santa Ana home, police said Friday.
The parents of the children told officers they discovered the woman dead in her bedroom when they returned Thursday from an evening at the movies, Santa Ana police Capt. James Dittman said.
Margaret and Kai Hendrickson had called their home at 8:45 p.m. to check in with their baby sitter, Linda Faye Rodgers., investigators said.
Rodgers, police said, assured the couple that “everything was fine.”
Three hours later, the couple returned to their West Wilshire Avenue home and found the blonde-haired, blue-eyed woman dead, police said.
Children not Harmed
The four Hendrickson children—ages 21/2 to 6—were not harmed, nor was Rodgers’ 6-year-old daughter, police said. They declined comment on where the children were or what they might have witnessed when their baby sitter was slain.
“They were inside the house. They were unharmed, (but) I don’t want to comment on whether or not the kids saw anything,” Sgt. John McClain said Friday. “It was a very brutal, vicious crime.”
Police said Rodgers, a single mother who had worked for the Hendricksons the past two years, appeared to have been stabbed with a knife and beaten with a blunt instrument.
An autopsy Friday indicated that Rodgers died of blunt-force trauma to the head.
Mcclain said it was not known whether anything was missing from the one-story, tan stucco home. He said investigators knew of no motive for the slaying, adding that there was no sign of forced entry.
One neighbor, Sam Cruz, said that he heard a gunshot between 11 p.m. and midnight, but thought nothing of it. “You hear them all the time around here,” he added/ Police said the baby sitter had not been shot.
Thought She was Wife
Residents along the tree-lined, older neighborhood near Bristol Street and McFadden Avenue said Friday that the family had only recently moved into the ohme and that few of the neighbors knew either the baby sitter or her employers well.
Rodgers had lived with the Hendricksons in Buena Park before moving to the Santa Ana home three or four weeks ago, McClain said.
Because he had never seen another woman at the home, cruz said, he assumed that Rodgers was the mother of all five children and the wife of Kai Hendrickson., a 42-year-old Santa Ana tow truck driver. Police said Margaret Hendrickson, 31, is not employed.
“I thought she (Rodgers) was part of the family. I had no idea she was just a baby sitter,” said Cruz, a 24-year-old Santa Ana College business major who lives across the street.
“During the day, you’d see her and the kids, and at night, (Mr. Hendrickson would) come home and park his tow truck in front,” Cruz said. I never saw another woman (besides Rodgers) there.”
He said he thought a man had been staying at the Hendrickson home for the past few days but he did not know who the man was.
Cruz described Rodgers as a “jeans and T-shirt type” dark blonde who seemed to go about her daily duties like clockwork. He said she seemed to run the household.
“She had a routine,” said Cruz. “The garage door opened about 8 a.m. or 7:30 a.m. and you’d see her washing the clothes in the garage.”
Sometimes. Cruz said, the young mother would be gardening in the front yard.
All these chores were usually done after Rodgers had walked the children down the street to elementary school in the mornings, neighbors said.
“I saw her yesterday about 2 p.m. She took the kids to school and back every day,” said Javier Perez, 37, a neighbor who works at the Hunt-Wesson Foods Inc. plant in Fullerton.
Pushed Them in Cart
“Sometimes she would be taking them to the store . . . there was so many of them that she pushed them in the shopping cart,” Perez said, pointing to a metal market basket on the sidewalk across the street. “The little dog would follow them down the street . . . It was always very loud over there.”
By mid-morning Friday, the home that neighbors said usually bustled with the noise and activity of children was strangely quiet, with the exception of a small dog roaming the driveway. It appeared that no one was inside, but a light bulb glowed over the black garage door and a bathroom window was lighted as well.
A sign in a front window—picturing the barrel of a gun pointed straight ahead and a line made popular in a Clint Eastwood movie—cast an eerie mood. It read: “Make my day!”

Santa Ana Man Held in Torture and Murder of Disabled Baby Sitter
By Nancy Wride
Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition), 25 January 1985, pg. 2
Article Abstract
Investigators, who called the killing “vicious, sadistic and brutal,” would not disclose how they linked Kenneth Clair to the slaying of Linda Faye Rodgers, 25, a cerebral palsy victim who “was almost totally defenseless.”
Clair, an unemployed cook and painter, was arrested at Jerome Park in Santa Ana late Wednesday on suspicion of burglary, murder and torture, and was being held at Orange County Jail without bail, Santa Ana police Sgt John McClain said. He added that Clair, who did not resist arrest, is expected to be arraigned on the charges early next week.
I will say that, in my opinion, the murder was extremely vicious, sadistic and brutal,” McClain said. He would not comment on whether Clair knew Rodgers or the family she worked for.

Murderer Gets Death Verdict in Santa Ana Case
By Jerry Hicks
Los Angeles Times (Orange County Edition), 7 August 1987, pg. 2

A death verdict was returned Thursday against a 28-year-old transient in the 1984 killing of a woman with cerebral palsy during a robbery at her home.
The jurors, who ordinarily would have been dismissed after the verdict, found their work wasn’t over. Orange County Superior Court Judge Mason Fenton interviewed them individually in his chambers about an evidentiary error in the trial, when jurors were mistakenly given access to a transcript they should not have been allowed to see.
Fenton ordered the defendant, Kenneth Clair, to return Sept. 18 for sentencing and said he would at that time consider a motion for a mistrial.
Clair was convicted a week ago of first-degree murder in the Nov. 15, 1984, strangulation of 25-year-old Linda Faye Rodgers. Rodgers, who was partially paralyzed, lived with a couple and cared for their four children and her own child.
She was found bound, gagged and partly nude. She had been stabbed twice and strangled.
The district attorney's office alleged special circumstances in an attempt to obtain a death sentence for Clair. The jurors rejected an allegation of attempted rape but did find the murder occurred during a robbery, so they had to decide between death and a life sentence without parole for Clair.
Before the jurors could hear the penalty phase of the case this week, however, court officials discovered that jurors had mistakenly been given an unedited transcript which mentioned the defendant's criminal record.
Clair's attorney, Julian W. Bailey, asked for a mistrial, and Fenton decided to consider it after the penalty phase.
During the penalty phase, Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael A. Jacobs presented evidence of Clair's robbery conviction 11 years ago. He served five years in a Louisiana prison. Jacobs also introduced evidence that Clair had participated in a burglary after his release from prison. Those charges were later dismissed.
Bailey depicted Clair as a young man raised alone by his mother in New Orleans, who had never known his father. After his release from prison he learned that his father was living in Northern California and that his paternal grandmother, whom he had never known, wanted to see him. Bailey migrated to Southern California, where police say he was a transient.
Clair had been arrested on suspicion of breaking into the home where Rodgers lived eight days before the murder. Police said he returned there and killed the woman the day he was released from Orange County Jail.

Psychics Aid Garden Grove Police in Cold Case

Television psychics attempt to crack a 28-year-old murder case, which has left Garden Grove police investigators baffled

By DEEPA BHARATH
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Thursday, October 12, 2006

GARDEN GROVE – It was a grisly killing that jolted a quiet family neighborhood 28 years ago.

On a rainy Tuesday morning in November, a 10-year-old boy walked through the bloodied door of his house to find his mother, Patricia Ann Neufeld, bludgeoned to death in a bedroom.

The case, which Garden Grove police officers at the time called the most gruesome killing they had come across, remains unsolved.

Enter Laurie Campbell and Pam Coronado.

The duo doesn't comb crime scenes for blood, hair or DNA samples. Campbell and Coronado, who say they are psychics, are trying to resuscitate cold cases through a new Discovery Channel series called "Sensing Murder."

The episode featuring the Neufeld case airs at 10 tonight.

Producers approached the Garden Grove Police Department earlier this year with the idea for the show, said Investigator Elaine Jordan, a 25-year veteran at the department.

"I didn't know what to expect," she said.

Sure, other investigators gave her a hard time about it, Jordan said.

"But if doing the show meant more attention to the case, it's worth it," she said. "If someone – anyone – comes forward with information, it's worth it."

Producers taped the show in April with Campbell, Coronado, Jordan and retired police detective Wallace Talbott, who worked on the case in 1978.

Campbell, an Irvine mother of two, says the victims always lead her.

"The dead know when we're coming," she said. "And they are always ready to show us the way."

Coronado, who lives in Ventura County and has been working with police departments for 10 years, called the Neufeld killing one of the most unsettling cases she has ever worked on.

"It was really disturbing to me – just the brutality of it," said Coronado, who also worked on the Washington, D.C., sniper case.

Neufeld, 34, was baby-sitting two infants in the Richmond Avenue house when her assailant struck. Campbell was able to say it was a baby boy and girl, Jordan said.

"She also said there was a 'k' connection to the case," the investigator said. "The victim was found by her son, Kirk."

So did Campbell and Coronado actually help crack the case?

They say yes. The detective says "not really."

Campbell said she and Coronado pointed in the direction of a serial killer. But Jordan says Garden Grove police investigators had already questioned Gerald Parker, known as the "bedroom basher" from the 1970s, who bludgeoned women to death and then raped their bodies.

Parker was convicted and sentenced to death in 1999, but only after Kevin Green had mistakenly served 16 years in prison for the killings, which were later proved by DNA evidence.

"We've interviewed Parker thrice about the Neufeld case even before the psychics got involved," Jordan said. "And all three times he's denied it."

Also, Neufeld was not raped, she said.

But that doesn't rule out other serial killers, Campbell says.

"Our job here was to breathe some fresh insight into the case," she said. "It's up to the police to follow the leads and solve the case."

Jordan said Coronado believed the killer had marked Neufeld as a victim at a grocery store and then followed her home for the kill.

Campbell said she had a vision of Neufeld on her knees, begging for her life.

"She knew what was coming," Campbell said. "She knew she wasn't getting out of this alive."

The experience can "freak out" the most seasoned psychics and move them to tears, Campbell said.

"I had nightmares about this one case we're working on where the killer tortured his victim with knives," she said.

But Jordan said the women's observations don't mean much.

"Maybe I expected too much," she said. "Maybe I thought there would be this huge revelation during our time together. I was waiting for it to happen. And it just didn't."

Terri Integlia, who now owns and lives in the house where Neufeld died, says she and her sister, who lives across the street, believe they've seen the dead woman's apparition.

"Stuff always gets moved around the house," Integlia said. "I feel this energy in the house that is very chaotic. I've never felt it's evil, but just tiresome and sometimes sad."

Staff writer Greg Hardesty and News Research Director Sharon Clairemont contributed to this story.

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