Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders

Murder in California: Rage and Revenge 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.

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:

South of the Border Escapade Funded By A Murder Victim’s Credit Card
McDonald’s San Ysidro Restaurant Massacre Site:
Artie and Jim Mitchell: Contemporary Cain and Abel
Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten’s killing and perpetrator suicide
Ewell Family Killings: Delayed gratification thwarts a near perfect killing
John Morency: A Vindictive Collapse To An Illusionary Refinement
Laci Peterson: When motive convicts beyond the body of evidence
Lyle and Erik Menendez: The sins of the son’s bury their parents
The Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman Murders: An American travesty
The Marin County barbeque murders
A convincing performance behind the killing of Bonnie Lee Bakley
Vincent Brothers: The convicting insects on the radiator
An Illusionary Friendship That Stimulated an Embezzlement Murder
A Bondage Murder With An Unconsensual Victim
A Gunfight That Ultimately Becomes A Supreme Court Precedent
Diane Whipple: Defining accountability with vicious pet owners
Eastside Salinas: An invisible war Rages streetside
Slaying of Ennis Cosby on an isolated freeway off ramp
Father Eric Freed’s Brutal Slaying: A Lost Coast of fractured souls
The Silent and Senseless Murder of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen
Haing Ngor: An extended and consequential journey curtailed by a random killing
Huey P. Newton: A tarnished messenger with feet of clay
Johnny Stompanato: Lana Turner’s fatal attraction
Barbara Graham: An unsympathetic film portrayal
Marvin Gaye: A visionary dishonored within his household
Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett: The Greystone Mansion murder-suicide
The Unexplainable Orcutt freeway sniper attack
Phil Hartman: The shocking murder-suicide from an unanticipated source
Phil Spector: The Crumbling legacy of a musical genius
Ramon Novarro: The gruesome torture of a closeted screen idol
Ronni Chasen Shooting: When two divergent worlds collided
Sal Mineo: A career comeback curtailed
The Abrupt departure of Soul Music legend Sam Cooke in his prime
Ryan Jenkins: Jealousy Consumes A Reality Television Contestant
A Convicted Killer Finds Conjugal Affection But Never Release
The Covina Christmas Eve massacre by a Santa impersonator
Edward Allaway: The questionable case for cured insanity
Mel and Elizabeth Grimes: The consequences behind a one-ton stone
The Helzer Brothers: Children of Thunder slayings
The disintegrating mind and schoolyard entrance massacre by Brenda Spencer
Dr. Victor Ohta: The execution and incendiary of the house on the hill
The vindictive rampage of Elliot Rodger
The Golden Dragon massacre: The gang who didn’t shoot straight
Lynwood Jim Drake: A loose wire springs a rampage
Marcus Wesson: The cult and tragic murder consequence traced to family abuse
Scott Dekraai: Revenge for a punitive divorce settlement
Holzer Family stabbing spree: Spiraling out of control mental illness
The Oikos University Massacre: Piecing together a disjointed puzzle
San Diego State Engineering graduate student’s rage against his perceived academic tormentors
Santana High School: Adolescence angst with a gunfire solution
A Synagogue Shooting By A Self-Deluded Solider