Alot of people and investigators believe that the Zodiac killed Donna Lass,a Tahoe nurse who disapeared on Sept. 6,1970 ,and was never found.
In addition,they also believe that Zodiac killed Robert Domingos and his fiance Linda Edwards on June 4,1963 on a secluded beach in Santa Barbara county.
Over the years,there has been a surprising number of unsolved murders at beaches in Calif.along with cases of murdered nurses.
If Zodiac was responsible for the Lass,and Domingos/Edwards murders,then perhaps he is responsible for many of the murders on beaches and those of nurses. (important to note that Ted Bundy was in Calif in the 60's and early 70's,and as I recall,he killed a few nurses)
I am trying to make a list here of various unsolved murders/attacks/disappearances in California as related to Beaches,and nurses.Perhaps some people here also know of some cases in Calif,or even sorrounding states that can be added to this list.
1963-(Domingos/Edwards)(Beach Attack)
In a
Vallejo Times-Herald story that appeared on November 13, 1972, Santa Barbara Sheriff's Detective Bill Baker (ret.) theorized that the murders of a young couple in [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Barbara_County"]
Santa Barbara County[/ame] may have been the work of the Zodiac.
On June 4, 1963, five-and-a-half years before the Zodiac's first known murders on Lake Herman Road, high-school senior
Robert Domingos and fiancée
Linda Edwards were shot to death on a beach near
Lompoc, having skipped school that day for "[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Skip_Day"]
Senior Ditch Day[/ame]". Police believed that the assailant attempted to bind the victims, but when they freed themselves attempting to flee, he shot them repeatedly in the back and chest with a .22-caliber weapon. He then placed their bodies in a small nearby shack and tried, unsuccessfully, to burn it down.(the attempted tying of their hands sounds like the Zodiac attack 6 years later at Lake Berryessa,and the part about shooting them multiple times in the back ,and using Western Super X ammo,sounds like the Zodiac murder 5 years later of Betty Lou Jensen,who was shot multiple times in the back as she ran off)The attacker stacked the bodies in a seaside shack about 30 feet from the site where the two were first accosted, Linda face-up on top of Robert. The killer apparently tried to set the shack on fire.
The killer forced Linda to tie Robert,(just like the Zodiac berryessa attack) and it was while this was being done that the couple tried to flee. The killer knew how to shoot to kill, though.
No rape, no robbery. There seemed to be no discernible motive for the assault.
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1966-(
Floyd C. Martin)(Beach secluded area attack)
The Modesto Bee
Tuesday, May 31, 1966
POLICE SEEK AID IN HUNT FOR STANFORD MURDERER
San Francisco (AP) Detectives appealed today for help from the anonymous persons who reported finding the body of a mysteriously slain Stanford University chemist.(Zodiac annonymously called in to report his attacks more than once)
Two telephone calls alerted police who found the body of Floyd C. Martin , 37, of Milipitas on a grassy plot near Lands End, where couples often park cars with a view of the Pacific.
Martin, senior laboratory technician specializing in dermatology at Stanford Medical Center, was found with a loaded and un-fired pistol in his pocket. a pair of binoculars around his neck and a small flashlight near his right hand. He had been shot through the neck.
His hands were stretched over his head.
An unidentified youth, who had been fishing nearby, said he had seen a blue station wagon parked in the lover's lane area of Merric Way and Point Lobos avenue about three hours before police found the body Sunday.
1967-(
Anna J. Anderson) (Murdered Nurse)
Murdered Woman Is Identified 4-25-67
CARSON CITY, Nev. (UPI)-The body of a woman found in
the hills one week ago has been identified as Anna J. Anderson,
48, of Oakland, Calif., a nurse at the Richmond, Calif., General
Hospital. Sheriff Robert Humphrey said the case was definitely
a homicide.
1970-(Judith Ann Hakari)(murdered nurse)
The detective was referring
to Judith Ann Hakari,
23. a nurse who disappeared
March 6, 1970, and
whose body was found
April 26 in a shallow grave
in Placer County.
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1970-(Donna Lass)(Missing and presumed dead Nurse)
Donna Lass worked as a nurse at the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizon_Casino_Resort"]Sahara Tahoe[/ame] resort casino in Stateline, Nevada. On [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_6"]September 6[/ame], [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970"]1970[/ame], she signed her last entry in her log book at 1:50 a.m. She was never seen leaving the Sahara, however her car was found at her apartment complex at Stateline. Lass, then 25, was never seen again.
The next day, Lass's landlord and employer both received calls from a man who told them that Lass was ill and had left because of a family emergency; the call proved a hoax.A month later, a paste-up postcard was received by the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Chronicle"]San Francisco Chronicle[/ame], hinting that Lass's disappearance was connected to the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer"]Zodiac Killer[/ame]. Six months later, another paste-up [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postcard"]postcard[/ame] was received by the San Francisco Chronicle, the [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Examiner"]San Francisco Examiner[/ame], and the San Francisco Times. No evidence was ever uncovered to connect Donna Lass's disappearance with the Zodiac Killer
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1970-(Carol Hilburn)(Dead XRAY tech.)
Carol Hilburn, a Sacramento X-ray technician, found beaten to death in a ravine on Friday, November 13,1970(no a nurse,but still in related medical field)
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1970-(Multiple victims)(Beach murders)
7/6/70 Press-Courier, The
Two Youths Found
Hacked to Death
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP)-
An early morning beach stroller
found two young men hacked to
death in their sleeping bags and
a Ihird critically injured with
multiple head gashes.
Investigators said the three apparently
were attacked as Ihey
slept on a beach next to Ihe
University of California at Santa
B a r b a r a . The blood-spattered
bodies were found al sunup Sunday.
The victims were identified as
Larry .Sieve Hess, 20, of La Grange,
Ind., and Thomas Victor Dolan, 17,
of Manhattan Beach, Calif.
Thomas M. Hayes, 19, Hermosa
Beach, Calif., was reported in crilical
condition but improving at
Goleta Valley Hospital aller five
hours of surgery.
Sheriff's deputies said Hayes
remained unconscious and was
under light security at the hospital.
Hayes' parents said Ihe youths
were on a trip lo San Francisco.
Officers said the death weapon
apparently was a halchel or meat
cleaver. The victims still had
money and watches, officers added.
Two other persons were killed
last Feb. 22 on a Sanla Barbara
County beach, 20 miles from the
latest murder scene. John Franklin
Hood, 24, of Oxnard, and Sandra
Garcia, 19, of Sanla Barbara, were
beaten and slabbed to death. Their murders remain unsolved
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1970-(multiple Victims)(Beach murders)
From the PRESS TELEGRAM 1/18/71
Find Slain
Woman
on Beach
SANTA BARBARA «f) -
The nude body of a young
woman, apparently beaten
lo death, was found early
i oday on a beach near Isla
Visla. a student eommunil.
v adjacent to the University
of California at Santa
Rarbara.
II was the sixth slaying
;ill unsolved on
beaches of that area in
Inss than ;i year.
Sheriff's Sgl. Rtiberl.
Prince, said the woman,
-still unidentified, had a cut
on the right side of her
head and her face was
"badly mutilated." Her
head had been covered
with a coat, Prince added.
The woman's death was
the third murder on the
Isla Vista beach in just
over six months, officers
said. Thomas V. Dnlan, 17,
Manhattan Beach, and Homer
Shadwick, H), a soldier
from Monterey, were
stabbed to death on the
beach last July. A ihml
youth, Thomas M. Hayes,
I!), also was slabbed in the
attack but survived.
John Franklin Hood, 24,
of Oxnard and his fiancee,
Sandra Garcia, 20, of Santa
Barbara, were bcalen
and slabbed to death on a
nearby beach last February
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1994-(Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen)(Beach murders)
Jason Allen and Lindsay Cutshall, two Christian camp counselors who planned to be married, were shot in their sleep in their sleeping bags as they camped on Fishhead Beach in Jenner, California. Their bodies were found Aug. 18, 2004.They were both shot in the head at close range.There was no sign of sexual assault or robbery
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Here is a link to a story about multiple unsolved murders up and down the west coast along the ocean: http://www.truecrimediary.com/index.cfm?page=cases&id=17
I have a few more articles about murders on Calif beaches around here some place.Once I find them,i will post them.Again,its possible that these victims are Zodiac victims,or that of another serial killer.If you have any cases that you know of that are similar in the Calif. area,please add them here
