Mill Valley, Cal. (1973)
Before 03/17/1973: “Police hunted today for a man in his
early 20s seen leaving a burning home after a businessman, his wife and son
were shot to death outside the hillside dwelling.” A neighbor saw the man leaving
with a shotgun who rejected the neighbor’s poorly thought offer to help. “Go
away,” was the response. Police found at least 22 shotgun shells.
At a subsequent trial of a man, 22, his defense attorney
asserted that the murderer was paranoid schizophrenic and committed the murders
because his friend, one of those murdered, “possessed supernatural powers which
were bent of destroying [the murderer.” Also, “the Mafia was involved in his life
and that Dan Shallock was involved and could not be killed, even by an H-Bomb.”
“At one point he believed Dan Shallock was the devil, and to this day [the murderer]
fear in his heart that Dan may come back.” The murderer had spent a month at Marin
Community Mental Health Center, and in the days immediately prior to the slayings,
his mother had been trying to persuade the youth to commit himself.”
It appears that the jury did not accept “not guilty by
reason of insanity”; they convicted him of murder.
Category: family non-resident
Suicide: no
Cause: mental illness
Weapon: shotgun[1]
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