CA - Jeffrey Varga & Miguel Antero, both 6, murdered, L.A. County, 1981 & 1986

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Registered Sex Offender arrested for 1981 murder of 6 y/o old boy
Cold case leads to arrest of Kenneth Rasmuson - living in Sandpoint, ID

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2015...ested-in-1981-cold-case-murder-of-pomona-boy/

another article:

"Detectives say on July 2, 1981 the 6-year-old boy left his house on his bike to go to a fireworks stand in Anaheim. A short time later, his parents found his abandoned bike in an alley. The next day, the boy's body was found by two construction workers in Pomona. The Coroner's Office determined the child had died of asphyxia due to strangulation. Police say DNA evidence links the crime to Kenneth Rasmuson. "

http://www.khq.com/story/28639512/sandpoint-man-arrested-for-1981-murder-of-6-year-old-boy




ETA: Mods - please remove if not appropriate

I did a search for murdered boy 1981 Pomona Anaheim here is what I found:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8510160

The dates of death are the same, the story of the death is the same
 
"A Sandpoint man once committed to the Atascadero State Hospital in California as a sexually violent predator was arrested Friday for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing a 6-year-old boy in 1981.The partially clothed body of Jeffrey David Vargo was found at a construction site in Pomona, California, on July 3, 1981, the day after he went missing in Anaheim. The boy had been strangled.

The boy was last seen riding his bike to a neighborhood fireworks stand around 5:30 p.m. "

http://m.spokesman.com/stories/2015/mar/28/sandpoint-man-arrested-1981-murder-6-year-old-boy/

ETA: This MSM news article confirms it is the little boy that I linked in the findgrave above with little Jeffrey's picture.
 
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http://www.ocregister.com/articles/connie-656036-jeffrey-rasmuson.html

Bob and Connie Vargo still live in the house in the same neighborhood where Jeffrey disappeared. Inside what Connie called a “special box” in their two-story home are Jeffrey’s favorite items – a bathrobe, slippers, and a collection of original Star Wars toys. Framed photographs of a smiling kid with floppy brownish hair dot the house. These are the only reminders of their youngest son after he went missing while riding his bike around their quiet, manicured neighborhood on July 2, 1981, the start of the fourth of July celebration...

Connie said she hopes the arrest will finally help them heal. “We had another son to raise and life goes on,” Connie Vargo said. “It’s been hard but we always remember him.”

Today, the Vargos plan to visit Loma Vista Memorial Park. Connie will have a pinwheel and stick it on Jeffrey’s burial site. “He would have turned 40 last year,” Connie said. “But to me, he’ll always be my six-year-old boy.”
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http://www.eastoregonian.com/idaho-...ews-northwesta0df2f4c5d0f49edab249f985fa49dc1

Just months after Jeffrey's slaying, Rasmuson sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy in Santa Barbara County and was sent to prison in December 1981, then committed to a mental hospital... He was released in 1985, then sent back to prison and the mental hospital for kidnapping and molesting a 3-year-old boy in Los Angeles in 1987.

He relocated to Idaho in 2010, where he was classified as a violent sexual predator in that state's sex offender registry, and has no criminal history there.
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They have now linked him to the murder of another 6yo boy:
DNA identifies suspect in 1986 killing of Agoura Hills boy

October 23, 2015

Miguel Antero hopped off the school bus on a spring day in 1986 but he never came home. His body -- covered in stab wounds -- was found hours later amid brush near an Agoura Hills commune where he lived.
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After extensive DNA analysis established a match, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office filed a murder charge Thursday against Rasmuson, alleging he killed the first-grader while performing a lewd or lascivious act, according to the complaint.
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http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-dna-links-sex-offender-to-cold-case-slaying-20151022-story.html
 
Former Santa Barbara man charged in 2 cold cases
October 26, 2015
By KAREN VELIE

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On Friday, prosecutors said that DNA evidence also ties Rasmuson to the 1986 murder of 6-year-old Miguel Antero.

On April 8, 1986, Antero was reported missing. He was last seen outside his Agoura Hills home. Deputies later found Antero’s body in a nearby creek. The boy had been sexually assaulted, stabbed and strangled.

The courts have convicted Rasmuson twice before for violent sexual assaults against children.
 
I don't understand why this was free when he killed Miguel - and for so many years after. It seems he may have been a juvenile offender the first time? He wasn't fixed, obviously. How many more victims did he have?
 
ANYONE who kills a child should NEVER go free. How can anybody think these types of criminals have served enough time , and are thus "safe" to let loose on society ?
:moo:

Rest and fly with the angels, Miguel !
 
Miguel was definitely not this monster's only victim:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-convicted-sex-offender-arrested-20150328-story.html

For more than three decades, the 1981 slaying of 6-year-old Jeffrey David Vargo of Anaheim remained unsolved.
The boy had been strangled and his body left behind a pile of sand at a Pomona construction site.
In 1997, Pomona police confirmed that they had reopened the case. Again the case went nowhere.



RIP Jeffrey David Vargo

Poor little babies. Have to wonder how many other murders this freak will be tied to.
 
A convicted sex offender was ordered Monday to stand trial on double murder charges in the deaths of two 6-year-old boys in 1981 and 1986.

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The murder counts include the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and that the boys were killed during the commission of a lewd or lascivious act on a child.

Rasmuson was held to answer on all counts as well as the special circumstance allegations.

The District Attorney’s Office will decide later whether to seek the death penalty against Rasmuson, who has a 1981 conviction from Santa Barbara County for sodomy of a person under 14.

Rasmuson is being held without bail and due to return to court for arraignment Sept. 13.
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http://www.dailybulletin.com/genera...-trial-in-pomona-slaying-of-anaheim-hills-boy
 
LietKynes said:
ANYONE who kills a child should NEVER go free. How can anybody think these types of criminals have served enough time , and are thus "safe" to let loose on society ?
:moo:

Rest and fly with the angels, Miguel !
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Agree. SOMETHING....has to be done about letting these child sex predators/murderers just go free. What possibly could be the reason they let them out to reoffend? I mean, WHAT are they thinking??
 
I would add that anyone who murders an innocent person should not be free.
I honestly think some cannot be rehabilitated.
There are discussions for and against.
 
More than three decades ago in Agoura Hills, Enid Antero's 6-year-old little brother was murdered. She relives that day often.

"That day he never made it home. He had been abducted, beaten, raped, sodomized and stabbed to death," Enid said.

Up until five years ago, Miguel Antero's brutal killing was a cold case.

A suspect is now in custody. But a new ruling from new L.A. County District Attorney George Gascon is affecting the case.

"Every case needs to be looked at individually," Enid said. "Justice needs to be delivered for these children. His way and his method that he's planning to use is not going to work for cases like ours."

After winning the election, Gascon ordered the end of cash bail, the death penalty and sentencing enhancements in L.A. County prosecutions.

That means Miguel's suspected killer won't face special circumstance charges that could potentially extend his sentence.
LA County DA George Gascon's sentencing policies questioned by crime victims' families
 
Orange County DA seeks to wrestle away cold-case murder from DA George Gascón in LA – Orange County Register

Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer has filed a brief seeking to take over the prosecution from Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón of a violent predator charged with the 1981 kidnapping and murder of a 6-year-old Anaheim Hills boy.

Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, 53, of Sandpoint, Idaho, remains in jail in connection with the slaying of Jeffrey Vargo, but Gascon’s newly imposed directives have forced prosecutors in his office to move to dismiss special circumstances and enhancements.

Rasmuson was charged late last week by the Orange County District Attorney’s Office with one felony count of murder and two special circumstances — murder during the course of a kidnapping and murder during a lewd or lascivious act on a child under the age of 14.

Those charges would make Rasmuson eligible for the death penalty if convicted.
 
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