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Violence against women in California

  • Murder trial of O. J. SimpsonAround 95 million Americans watched the prelude to the murder trial of O. J. Simpson live, on the 17th of June 1994. Television stations had interrupted game 5 of the NBA Finals to show a slow police pursuit of a white Ford Bronco. Inside…
  • Lawrence Bittaker and Roy NorrisLawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris, two men later known as the Tool Box Killers, kidnapped five teenage girls in Southern California during 1979. None of the five survived. Everything happened within a span of just five months. The nickname…
  • Cary StaynerCary Stayner is an American serial killer whose crimes began to surface in March 1999, when police near Yosemite National Park received an anonymous note. It held a hand-drawn map, and across the top someone had written, "We had fun with…
  • Sharon TateSharon Tate was six months old when she won the Miss Tiny Tot of Dallas Pageant. Her parents had no show business ambitions for her, and the crown was meant to lead nowhere. Yet the American actress and model, who lived from 1943 to 1969,…
  • Lawrence SingletonLawrence Singleton, born in Tampa, Florida, in 1927, once told a judge that he was "a confused, muddleheaded old man." His record said otherwise. Singleton committed one crime so brutal that California rewrote its sentencing law because of…
  • Rodney AlcalaRodney Alcala walked onto the set of the television game show The Dating Game in 1978, and host Jim Lange introduced him as a successful photographer. Lange promised that between takes he might be found skydiving or motorcycling. The…
  • Edmund KemperEdmund Kemper stood in a phone booth in Pueblo, Colorado, in the spring of 1973 and confessed to murder. The police officer who answered did not believe him. Kemper was told to call back later. He had just driven more than 1,000 miles,…
  • Joseph James DeAngeloDeputies arrested Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. in the side yard of his Sacramento home on the afternoon of the 24th of April 2018. He was 72 years old, a retired truck mechanic and a former police officer. For more than four decades,…
  • Murder of Laci PetersonLaci Peterson was 27 years old when she disappeared from her home in Modesto, California, on the 24th of December 2002. She was far along in her first pregnancy. A large search began within hours, and the story soon reached a national…
  • David CarpenterDavid Joseph Carpenter is the American serial killer whom the press came to call the Trailside Killer. In 1980, detectives in Marin County, California, were searching for a man in his twenties or thirties. Carpenter was 50. Pathologists…
  • Kidnapping of Colleen StanColleen Stan was 20 years old on the 19th of May 1977, when she set out to hitchhike from her home in Eugene, Oregon. Her destination was Westwood, California, where a friend was holding a birthday party. Stan considered herself an…

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