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Sacramento Unsolved

September 14, 2019 · by · in author, cold case, Crime, crime and punishment, crime fiction author, DNA, golden state killer, Jacobs Family Murders, James L'Etoile, killers, police, sacramento crime, sacramento serial killers, Sacramento Unsolved · Leave a comment

Another year gone and another silent anniversary without answers. Twenty-eight years have passed since the 1991 slaying of an entire family in the upscale Land Park neighborhood of Sacramento. On January 15, 1991, Marcy Jacobs didn’t show up to work as a data processing technician at the Department of Justice. A concerned co-worker called the […]

Two of Sacramento’s Cold Case Murders

August 9, 2019 · by · in author, cold case, crime fiction author, criminal justice, evil, James Calvin Gaines, James L'Etoile, Jeff Mitchell, sacramento crime, sacramento serial killers, serial killer, Shannon Ritter, unsolved murders · 1 Comment

I’ve written about Sacramento’s serial killer connection with notorious murderers who hunted in the city, like Morris Solomon, and The I-5 Strangler. With 15% of the nation’s serial killers roaming our streets, it comes as no surprise that the number of unsolved homicides in the county is an astonishing 431 unanswered deaths. In the last […]

Solving 40 Year Old Cold Cases

February 26, 2019 · by · in author, cold case, Crime, crime and punishment, crime fiction author, criminal justice, DNA, east area rapist, El Dorado County, golden state killer, James L'Etoile, Joseph Holt, Joseph James DeAngelo, Jr, killers, sacramento crime, sacramento serial killers, serial killer, serial killers, true crime · 2 Comments

The unmasking of the Golden State Killer came by unusual means. Unusual in that Joseph DeAngelo Jr. wasn’t caught through surveillance, or from a tip that came through a jail house snitch, or from an eyewitness account of the crime. The murders and rapes suddenly ended decades ago and the trail went cold. When a […]