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Robin left the beach and was last seen riding her bike to ballet class. The Huntington Beach girl, who aspired to be a gymnast, spent the day at Sunset Beach, where a man later identified as Alcala approached her and asked if he could take her picture. Cliff Shepard of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parenteau was known to frequent a Pasadena bar that Alcala had been seen at, said Det.

Her nude body was found on the floor propped up by pillows.Ĭharges against Alcala were dropped in this case in 1981 after an informant’s evidence became questionable. Marital status: Single, lived alone in Burbank.Ī computer program keypunch operator, Parenteau was killed after an intruder broke into her apartment by jimmying window louvers. The manager of the apartment, which was located about 15 miles from her home, found her body.Īlcala may have met Lamb at a disco in Long Beach, according to court documents. Lamb, a legal secretary, had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a shoelace. Lamb was found naked and dead in the laundry room of a large apartment complex in El Segundo. Marital status: Single, lived alone in Santa Monica. “She was the last person you would think this would happen to.” “She had lots of friends she was very outgoing and kindhearted,” she said. Wixted, who was born in New York but grew up in Southern California after around age 5, was a cardiac-care nurse at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood who “just wanted to help people,” said her younger sister, Anne Michelena, 50, of Irvine, a fifth-grade teacher. She suffered severe blunt-force trauma to the head. Wixted was found in her home, naked, battered and sexually assaulted. Marital status: Single, lived alone in Malibu. “She was found right down the street from (Marlon) Brando’s house,” he said. and Kenneth Bianchi, according to Los Angeles Police Det.

County Sheriff’s Department.īarcomb initially was thought to be a victim of infamous “Hillside Strangler” killers Angelo Buono Jr. killings linked to Alcala were handled by the L.A. The Los Angeles Police Department investigated her death the other three L.A. She had been severely beaten and sexually assaulted, and was strangled with a pair of blue slacks. She was in a knee-to-chest position and naked from the waist down. The native of Oneida, NY, had been in Southern California for about three weeks when her body was found on a dirt path on Franklin Canyon Drive in the Hollywood Hills. Marital status: Single, living in motels. 'You can put a small animal on an anthill and it disappears right in front of your eyes.Rodney James Alcala, a former Death Row inmate awaiting retrial for the 1979 death of Robin Samsoe, 12, of Huntington Beach, was indicted Monday for the murders of four Los Angeles County women. 'Things disappear very rapidly in the desert,' he told investigators. The desert animals and insects removed evidence quickly and efficiently. Without provocation, Kearney shot LaMay in the back of the head, and later dumped his remains in the desert. An 18th count of murder was filed the same day that the 13th Hillside Strangler victim was found.Īs to John LaMay? Hill wasn't home when his young lover came to the house, so Kearney invited him in to watch television. Nobody came knocking on his door, and he realized that he had actually gotten away with murder.Ī neighbor said she occasionally heard what she thought were gunshots, but had no idea they came from the Kearney and Hill apartment.Īfter his arrest, Kearney wrote letters to the police, detailing the crimes, the names of the victims and the places the bodies could be found. The police dug where Kearney indicated, and came up with a skeleton with a single bullet hole in its skull.Īfter killing George, a paranoid Kearney laid low for over a year.

The victim was killed around Christmas 1968. He led them to the site where he had buried one of his first victims, known only as George, behind his and Hill's Culver City apartment.

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But according to Kearney, in a series of letters, confessions and conversations with the police, the killing began much earlier, in the mid-'60s in Tijuana and San Diego.

Hillside strangler victims