Murder in California: Abductions, Assassinations and Police Related Murders

Murder in California: Abductions, Assassinations and Police Related Murders profiles some of California's most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime.
Convicted killers and their confirmed victims are identified. For criminals still living, their current incarceration location is provided. A directory of precise crime site locations is included. The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades.
Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance. California has been the site for many notorious homicides. The following are portrayed in this edition:San Jose kidnapping of heir Brooke Hart and resulting mob justiceEureka's Karen Mitchell: vanishing into speculationAn Epitaph That Embodied The Wasted Life of a Killer (Robert Alton Harris)Kristin Smart: The tangled web involving Fifth Amendment silenceNicholas Markowitz: The Stolen Boy and unforeseen executionThe Onion Field Killings: Execution amidst rural darknessAn Abduction-Murder of Two Innocents (Charles Keever and Jonathan Sellers)The Patty Hearst Kidnapping and SLA shoot outPolly Klaas: The shocking death of innocenceRex Allen Krebs: Predestined towards violenceThe Mob permanently severs relations with Bugsy SiegelFung Little Pete Jing Toy: 19th Century San Francisco's Chinatown gangland slayingChauncey Bailey: The price of constitutional protectionJoseph The Animal Barboza: East Coast mob contract hitDr.
Marcus Foster: The marginalized assassinationDestroying What One Cannot Fully Possess (Betty Broderick)The Marin County Courthouse Shootout: Thirty minutes that forever altered courtroom security proceduresThe Mickey and Trudy Thompson morning driveway executionThe political killings of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey MilkThe East/West Coast vendetta and shooting of Christopher Wallace a.k.a.
Biggie SmallsSenator Robert F. Kennedy: The assassination of hopeThe Contract killing of Vic Weiss: Payback for stealing from the wrong peopleCharles Crawford: The fixer loses his Los Angeles influenceThe Wonderland Gang drug executionsA Panic and Impulsive Police Shooting At Grape Street Park (Joselito Cinco)The slaying of LAPD Captain Walter Auble and impressive public responseLovelle Mixon: A desperate final and fatal gamble towards escapeAn Absence of Warning Proves Fatal To A Back-Up Officer (Officer Christopher Wilson)The Newhall Shootout: Deadliest firefight in California Highway Patrol historyThe North Hollywood Bank of America doomed heist and shootoutA Senseless Police Shooting By A Gunman Wagering on Reincarnation (Officer Jeremy Henwood)Burbank Policeman Matthew Pavelka: Officer down following up a fateful back upOscar Grant III: When the facts behind a killing become secondaryA Routine Gang Questioning That Deteriorated Into TragedySanta Barbara Officer Thomas Guerry: A legacy award for an abruptly ended life