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On May 26, 2021, a mass shooting occurred at a Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) rail yard in San Jose, California, United States. A 57-year-old VTA employee, Samuel James Cassidy, shot and killed nine VTA employees before committing suicide. [ 1][ 4] It is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Unsolved murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. O. J. Simpson tried and acquitted [10] [7] 20: Heaven's Gate: Rancho Santa Fe: 1997-03-26: 39: Mass suicide by cult members at direction of cult leader [27] [28] 21: Black Widow Murders: Los Angeles: 1999, 2005: 2: Two elderly women convicted of murdering two vagrants, the first in 1999 ...
Imprisoned at. Salinas Valley State Prison, Soledad, California. Terry Childs (September 22, 1955 – February 11, 2023) was an American serial killer serving several life sentences for the murders of at least five people in Nevada and California spanning from 1979 to 1985. [1] While his true victim count is unknown, Childs himself claimed at ...
Herbert William Mullin (April 18, 1947 [ 1] – August 18, 2022) [ 2] was an American serial killer who killed 13 people in California in the early 1970s. He confessed to the killings, which he claimed prevented earthquakes. In 1973, after a trial to determine whether he was legally insane or culpable, he was convicted of two murders in the ...
Covina massacre. The Covina massacre was a mass murder carried out on Christmas Eve, 2008 by a disgruntled ex-husband in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Bruce Jeffrey Pardo, 45, wearing a Santa suit, entered a property belonging to his former in-laws in Covina and killed nine people by shooting or by arson from the fire he started.
November 27, 1984 – November 18, 1998 (Confirmed) Country. United States. State (s) California, Utah. Date apprehended. March 17, 1999. The Speed Freak Killers is the name given to serial killer duo Loren Herzog and Wesley Shermantine, together initially convicted of four murders — three jointly — and suspected in the deaths of as many as ...
Murder of Mary Quigley. Mary Elizabeth Quigley (February 28, 1960 – September 10, 1977) was an American murder victim whose death was a cold case for nearly 30 years before it was finally solved. [ 1] Mary was a senior at Santa Clara High School in California. She had attended a beer party and left late in the evening of Friday, September 9 ...
Suicide of Audrie Pott. Audrie Taylor Pott (May 27, 1997 – September 12, 2012) [ 1] was a 15-year-old student at Saratoga High School in Saratoga, California, who died by suicide. She had been sexually assaulted at a party eight days earlier by three 16-year-old boys she knew, and nude pictures of her were posted online with accompanying ...