Torrance, Cal. (1973)
02/11/1973: Police investigated a missing person report and
four theater employees. They were at first unsure if the victims were shot or
stabbed to death It turned out that he used a gun to get compliance but used a
knife to slit their throats. They could not be identified at first because of
the amount of blood on their bodies. The safe was open.
Subsequent investigation into a similar business robbery that
only resulted in one murder and the suspect’s suicide in jail led police to
surmise that a long-time criminal, 30, with an extensive psychiatric history,
which included repeated warnings that he was a murder-in-training. Police
arrested him for misdemeanor traffic warrants; he committed suicide in jail. He
committed the murders after a detailed casing of the theater. He told his roommate
that “if he didn’t come back there was no reason to feel guilty. If everything
went right, he would have $2,000 owed to him and his roommate would read about
in the newspapers.”
Category: public
Suicide: no
Cause: robbery
Weapon: knife[1]
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