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This is a cold case that dates back to 1966. Cheryl Nolan was found shot once in the heart inside her mother car. Some forums have related this murder to the Zodiac Killer.
Here is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, Sept. 19, 1966
Mystery Murder of Oakland Girl
The body of a pretty auburn-haired girl -- shot in the heart -- was found in her widowed mother's car in Berkeley yesterday. She was identified as Cheryl Nolan, 17, Oakland.
A woman passerby first noticed the girl slumped in the front seat of a red Volkswagen in a quiet residential neighborhood about 8 a.m. on Eton avenue near Woolsey street.
The girl, dressed in black stretch pants and a sweater, appeared to be sleeping -- but when the woman noticed she was still there two hours later, she telephoned police.
When Berkeley patrolman Manvil Hendrickson responded to the woman's call, he found the car parked on the wrong side of Eton avenue, "sticking pretty far out."
"I saw blood," he said, "and when I opened the door, I saw she was dead." The body of the slain girl was in the passenger's seat of the car, he said. A single bullet, apparently from a .38 caliber pistol, had cut through her left wrist and smashed into the left side of her chest severing a heart artery.
She had been dead since about midnight, the officer said.
Although her purse was missing, she was quickly identified as 17-year-old Cheryl Cathleen Nolan of 360 Verson street, the daughter of Adele [sic] Nolan. Her anguished mother told police her daughter left their apartment home at 8 p.m. Saturday night -- presumably for a date in Berkeley -- but never returned. "She took my car -- I think someone must
have followed her." "She was just a beautiful 17-year-old," mourned her mother. "She had long auburn hair and she wouldn't be unkind to any one." "We were more like sisters than like mother and daughter."
Mrs. Nolan, an Oakland secretary, said her daughter, a senior at Oakland High School, planned to enter business school soon.
Berkeley police immediately began an all-out hunt for Cheryl's slayer but detectives said thay had "almost nothing to go on." "We're not even sure she was murdered in
Berkeley," said homicide Inspector Jack L. Houston. "We don't know yet if she ever met her date here."
Another San Francisco Chronicle article:
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1966
Sketch of Dead Girl's Last Night
Pretty auburn-haired Cheryl Nolan [...] may have had a tryst with her killer Saturday night in one of Berkeley's coffee houses. The lively youngster, Berkeley police said, was
known as a habitue of Berkeley's Telegraph avenue coffee houses and was last seen alive at 11 p.m. Saturday in deep conversation with two sandled, long-haired young men.
Lieutenant Darrel Hickman of the Berkeley Police Department said that some of Cheryl's friends are known to authorities as "dabblers or users in the Telegraph avenue marijuana and drug scene." Cheryl's friends, however, told police the girl herself was not a "user."
"She didn't dig it," one said. But, Lieutenant Hickman said, Cheryl did dress in
the fashion affected by coffee house frequenters. For the last six months, Hickman said, the
Oakland High School senior wore her beautiful hair hanging long, and on the night of her death was attired in purple stretch pants and an embroidered, plum-colored sweater.
When she left her home at 360 Vernon street, Oakland, Saturday night she told her widowed mother, Adela, that she was planning to meet a friend at the Jabberwock Club at 2901 Telegraph avenue. However, no one recalls her having entered the club any time
during the evening, Hickman said. She was seen at 11 p.m. on the 2400 block of
Telegraph avenue, talking to the two young men. Eleven hours later her body was found in the little red car she had borrowed from her mother. It was parked on the wrong side of Eton avenue near Claremont avenue in the quiet residential area of south Berkeley.
The girl was sitting on the front seat, on the passenger side of the car. A single bullet from
what police think may be a 32-caliber gun or a slightly larger foreign weapon passed through her left wrist and penetrated her chest.
Police had only two fragile leads to the girl's slayer. A woman living on Eton street reported to auhtorities she was awakened shortly before 1 a.m. by what she thought may have been a shot, but did not look outside. A man told police that at 11:55 p.m. he saw a tall heavy-set man wearing a windbreaker running south on Eton avenue toward Claremont. The girl died
between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday.
Hickman said that five of Cheryl's boy friends and a number of girls voluntarily had submitted to fingerprinting and photographing. He said most of the young people were "new" friends who had met the blue-eyed girled in recent months. There have been no arrests and no charges. None of the youngsters questioned have been implicated in
any way with the slaying.
A Rosary for the dead girl will be recited at 8 o'clock this (Tuesday) evening at the Albert Engle Mortuary, 3300 High street in Oakland. A Requiem Mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) at St. Margaret Mary's church at 1219 Excelsior avenue, Oakland, and burial will be private.
In addition to her mother, Cheryl is survived by her paternal grandfather, George V. Nolan, her maternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Eustace Alvers, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. William Lund, all of Oakland.
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1966
Berkeley Killer Hunt
Berkeley police dug deeper into Berkeley's coffee house sub-culture as they sought the killer
of pretty, auburn-haired Cheryl [Nolan]. It is a small, hip world police are penetrating,
almost entirely encompassed within the 2400 block of Telegraph avenue and almost entirely populated by non-college "teenie-boppers," young girls on the prowl for older "cats."
Somewhere within this strange little universe, police believe 17-year-old Cheryl may have met or, at least been spotted by, the man who fired a single bullet into her heart [...].
So far authorities have uncovered only one promising lead. A 18-year-old youth, Robert Leone at 1021 Via Roble in Lafayette, volunteered to police that on Saturday night about midnight he was driving toward his home and at the intersection of Ashby avenue and Claremont he saw a red Volkswagen being driven by a "long-haired girl." Driving directly
behind her, and apparently in hot pursuit, Leone reported, was a green Volkswagen driven by a man. At the cut-off to Lafayette, Leone said the red car made a sudden illegal U-turn and headed back to Berkeley. The green car executed the same maneuver and followed.
Ten hours later Cheryl's body was found in her car that was parked on Eton avenue near Claremont avenue.
Berkeley police say that two women living in the area where the car was found heard a "muffled" shot just before 1 a.m. Both the chase and the shot seem to coincide with the time of Cheryl's death.
Authorities said they had talked with numerous young people who said Cheryl had been wandering the 2400 block of Telegraph avenue from mid-afternoon Saturday until shortly before midnight. They quoted some of her relatively new friends as saying Cheryl had talked that night about driving down to the Monterey Jazz Festival -- although she had promised her mother to be home by 12:30 a.m.
Police said Cheryl was known to have picked up hitchhikers but was "very fussy" about who drove the little red car. It is for this reason authorities think it strange that Cheryl's body was found on the passenger side of the front seat and no evidence of struggle was apparent.
It is known, authorities said, that earlier in the evening Cheryl and a young man named "Mike" dropped in at the apartment of Roger D. Larson, 24, of 5830 Birth street, in Oakland. They remained for a time after Larson and a friend departed, and then Cheryl dropped him [Mike?] off at the home of friends, and she returned to Telegraph avenue, police said.
Rich Wherry, 27, manager of Pepe's Pizza parlor in the Telegraph avenue "strip," said he recognized Cheryl from her picture in newspapers of the last couple of days. "I recall seeing her," he said, "but not when she was here. [?] There are so many of them ... [sic]
I guess they don't have any place else to go. They just come up and mill around."
Cheryl's distraught mother, Adela, knew her pretty "Cathy" (as she called her) as a non-smoker, a non-drinker, and a girl of utmost fastidiousness. Cheryl's friends from Oakland High School recall her as "good and generous and kind." But on the Avenue, police said, Cheryl was called a "swinger."
San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, Sept. 24, 1966
Murder Probe
Berkeley police widened their search yesterday for the slayer of 17-year-old Cheryl Nolan to the Lake Tahoe area. Lieutenant Darrell Hickman said he had sent two officers to Stateline after learning that the pretty auburn-haired girl had spent three months this summer
working in a taxi cab office there.
He said Cheryl shared an apartment at the lake with two other girls. "She made friends so easily and so quickly," Hickman said, "there must be many people up there
who know her and might be able to give us a lead."
Here is an article from the San Francisco Chronicle:
San Francisco Chronicle
Monday, Sept. 19, 1966
Mystery Murder of Oakland Girl
The body of a pretty auburn-haired girl -- shot in the heart -- was found in her widowed mother's car in Berkeley yesterday. She was identified as Cheryl Nolan, 17, Oakland.
A woman passerby first noticed the girl slumped in the front seat of a red Volkswagen in a quiet residential neighborhood about 8 a.m. on Eton avenue near Woolsey street.
The girl, dressed in black stretch pants and a sweater, appeared to be sleeping -- but when the woman noticed she was still there two hours later, she telephoned police.
When Berkeley patrolman Manvil Hendrickson responded to the woman's call, he found the car parked on the wrong side of Eton avenue, "sticking pretty far out."
"I saw blood," he said, "and when I opened the door, I saw she was dead." The body of the slain girl was in the passenger's seat of the car, he said. A single bullet, apparently from a .38 caliber pistol, had cut through her left wrist and smashed into the left side of her chest severing a heart artery.
She had been dead since about midnight, the officer said.
Although her purse was missing, she was quickly identified as 17-year-old Cheryl Cathleen Nolan of 360 Verson street, the daughter of Adele [sic] Nolan. Her anguished mother told police her daughter left their apartment home at 8 p.m. Saturday night -- presumably for a date in Berkeley -- but never returned. "She took my car -- I think someone must
have followed her." "She was just a beautiful 17-year-old," mourned her mother. "She had long auburn hair and she wouldn't be unkind to any one." "We were more like sisters than like mother and daughter."
Mrs. Nolan, an Oakland secretary, said her daughter, a senior at Oakland High School, planned to enter business school soon.
Berkeley police immediately began an all-out hunt for Cheryl's slayer but detectives said thay had "almost nothing to go on." "We're not even sure she was murdered in
Berkeley," said homicide Inspector Jack L. Houston. "We don't know yet if she ever met her date here."
Another San Francisco Chronicle article:
San Francisco Chronicle
Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1966
Sketch of Dead Girl's Last Night
Pretty auburn-haired Cheryl Nolan [...] may have had a tryst with her killer Saturday night in one of Berkeley's coffee houses. The lively youngster, Berkeley police said, was
known as a habitue of Berkeley's Telegraph avenue coffee houses and was last seen alive at 11 p.m. Saturday in deep conversation with two sandled, long-haired young men.
Lieutenant Darrel Hickman of the Berkeley Police Department said that some of Cheryl's friends are known to authorities as "dabblers or users in the Telegraph avenue marijuana and drug scene." Cheryl's friends, however, told police the girl herself was not a "user."
"She didn't dig it," one said. But, Lieutenant Hickman said, Cheryl did dress in
the fashion affected by coffee house frequenters. For the last six months, Hickman said, the
Oakland High School senior wore her beautiful hair hanging long, and on the night of her death was attired in purple stretch pants and an embroidered, plum-colored sweater.
When she left her home at 360 Vernon street, Oakland, Saturday night she told her widowed mother, Adela, that she was planning to meet a friend at the Jabberwock Club at 2901 Telegraph avenue. However, no one recalls her having entered the club any time
during the evening, Hickman said. She was seen at 11 p.m. on the 2400 block of
Telegraph avenue, talking to the two young men. Eleven hours later her body was found in the little red car she had borrowed from her mother. It was parked on the wrong side of Eton avenue near Claremont avenue in the quiet residential area of south Berkeley.
The girl was sitting on the front seat, on the passenger side of the car. A single bullet from
what police think may be a 32-caliber gun or a slightly larger foreign weapon passed through her left wrist and penetrated her chest.
Police had only two fragile leads to the girl's slayer. A woman living on Eton street reported to auhtorities she was awakened shortly before 1 a.m. by what she thought may have been a shot, but did not look outside. A man told police that at 11:55 p.m. he saw a tall heavy-set man wearing a windbreaker running south on Eton avenue toward Claremont. The girl died
between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday.
Hickman said that five of Cheryl's boy friends and a number of girls voluntarily had submitted to fingerprinting and photographing. He said most of the young people were "new" friends who had met the blue-eyed girled in recent months. There have been no arrests and no charges. None of the youngsters questioned have been implicated in
any way with the slaying.
A Rosary for the dead girl will be recited at 8 o'clock this (Tuesday) evening at the Albert Engle Mortuary, 3300 High street in Oakland. A Requiem Mass will be offered at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) at St. Margaret Mary's church at 1219 Excelsior avenue, Oakland, and burial will be private.
In addition to her mother, Cheryl is survived by her paternal grandfather, George V. Nolan, her maternal grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Eustace Alvers, and a great-grandmother, Mrs. William Lund, all of Oakland.
San Francisco Chronicle
Wednesday, Sept. 21, 1966
Berkeley Killer Hunt
Berkeley police dug deeper into Berkeley's coffee house sub-culture as they sought the killer
of pretty, auburn-haired Cheryl [Nolan]. It is a small, hip world police are penetrating,
almost entirely encompassed within the 2400 block of Telegraph avenue and almost entirely populated by non-college "teenie-boppers," young girls on the prowl for older "cats."
Somewhere within this strange little universe, police believe 17-year-old Cheryl may have met or, at least been spotted by, the man who fired a single bullet into her heart [...].
So far authorities have uncovered only one promising lead. A 18-year-old youth, Robert Leone at 1021 Via Roble in Lafayette, volunteered to police that on Saturday night about midnight he was driving toward his home and at the intersection of Ashby avenue and Claremont he saw a red Volkswagen being driven by a "long-haired girl." Driving directly
behind her, and apparently in hot pursuit, Leone reported, was a green Volkswagen driven by a man. At the cut-off to Lafayette, Leone said the red car made a sudden illegal U-turn and headed back to Berkeley. The green car executed the same maneuver and followed.
Ten hours later Cheryl's body was found in her car that was parked on Eton avenue near Claremont avenue.
Berkeley police say that two women living in the area where the car was found heard a "muffled" shot just before 1 a.m. Both the chase and the shot seem to coincide with the time of Cheryl's death.
Authorities said they had talked with numerous young people who said Cheryl had been wandering the 2400 block of Telegraph avenue from mid-afternoon Saturday until shortly before midnight. They quoted some of her relatively new friends as saying Cheryl had talked that night about driving down to the Monterey Jazz Festival -- although she had promised her mother to be home by 12:30 a.m.
Police said Cheryl was known to have picked up hitchhikers but was "very fussy" about who drove the little red car. It is for this reason authorities think it strange that Cheryl's body was found on the passenger side of the front seat and no evidence of struggle was apparent.
It is known, authorities said, that earlier in the evening Cheryl and a young man named "Mike" dropped in at the apartment of Roger D. Larson, 24, of 5830 Birth street, in Oakland. They remained for a time after Larson and a friend departed, and then Cheryl dropped him [Mike?] off at the home of friends, and she returned to Telegraph avenue, police said.
Rich Wherry, 27, manager of Pepe's Pizza parlor in the Telegraph avenue "strip," said he recognized Cheryl from her picture in newspapers of the last couple of days. "I recall seeing her," he said, "but not when she was here. [?] There are so many of them ... [sic]
I guess they don't have any place else to go. They just come up and mill around."
Cheryl's distraught mother, Adela, knew her pretty "Cathy" (as she called her) as a non-smoker, a non-drinker, and a girl of utmost fastidiousness. Cheryl's friends from Oakland High School recall her as "good and generous and kind." But on the Avenue, police said, Cheryl was called a "swinger."
San Francisco Chronicle
Saturday, Sept. 24, 1966
Murder Probe
Berkeley police widened their search yesterday for the slayer of 17-year-old Cheryl Nolan to the Lake Tahoe area. Lieutenant Darrell Hickman said he had sent two officers to Stateline after learning that the pretty auburn-haired girl had spent three months this summer
working in a taxi cab office there.
He said Cheryl shared an apartment at the lake with two other girls. "She made friends so easily and so quickly," Hickman said, "there must be many people up there
who know her and might be able to give us a lead."
