She had alabaster skin and light blue eyes that contrasted with her black hair. In 1960, when Barry was 10, his father segued into real estate by buying private Lake Arrowhead, a vast mountain hideaway for Southern California gentry such as the O'Malleys and Dohenys. Instead, Yanikian yanked out his Luger, secreted in a hollowed-out copy of Whos Who in the West, and fired nine rounds at the diplomats. Domingos death deeply affected his cousin. It was a very short interview, Williams says. 1980-1984 [ edit] Pastel drawing of scar Romero, murdered Archbishop. For them, Han provided a one-two punch of psychological comfort and medical relief. Then in the early 1970s, Barry moved to Santa Barbara County, where his father owned the historic and breathtaking El Capitan Ranch, a 3,638-acre property overlooking the Pacific Ocean. So if for some reason [someone]whether their family member is deceased or theyre cleaning out a storage unitcome[s] across a weird collection of items such as womens IDs, rings, earringsanything thats out of the ordinaryit could be significant.. He worked four days a week, seeing about 15 patients a day. He remembers learning about the mystery after looking through his fathers scrapbook and seeing newspaper clippings on Shorts death. And Barry probably winced when his dad, as a California athletic commissioner, voted to deny a boxing license to Muhammad Ali, who had refused the draft. Within two, the symptoms were all but gone. Carlson was convinced. There is no chance for parole. Han, his older sister, and his parents were exiled to a re-education camp in the rural outposts of western China. He pleaded guilty to 13 murders, including those of four Santa Barbara County residents, and dozens of sexual assaults and burglaries in the 1970s and 1980s Thursday, November 10 , 2022, 2:55 pm . Wearing a blue button-up shirt, a tie, and at times a half-smile, Haobshs tone didnt betray that, early Friday morning, he was arrested at a San Diego County gas station and charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the brutal killings of well-known herbalist Dr. Weidong Henry Han, 57; his wife, Huijie Jennie Yu, 29; and the couples daughter, Emily Han, 5. Han graduated from medical school, and in the early 1980s he became aware that two post-graduate positions opened up at UCSBs psychology department. But Barry was repulsed by his dad's money and wanted to go the other way, recalls Brent Lieberman, a teenage buddy, now a surf photographer in Santa Barbara. However, in 1972, the now-Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office issued a press release stating that the killings were the work of the infamous serial killer. Nadine Courtney, a beauty blogger and former Newlyweds reality TV star, told the Associated Press via email Saturday that she is Haobshs sister. When asked if he thinks the Zodiac is responsible, he said he doesnt believe it. My mom didn't have a conventional mind, says Michael Westerman, a government purchasing manager in Vancouver, Washington. Police found the murdered couple's grave nearby they were buried atop one another. While Barry Berman gravitated in the 1960s and '70s toward the counterculture, his dad was making enemies with the Sierra Club by destroying forestland to build a golf course. No one saw Barry and Louise that day. Zemaitis remembers his fathers frustration about the FBIs inaction after contacting the agency regarding Shorts time in Santa Barbara County. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is continuing the search for the suspect who murdered Kym Morgan in Santa Barbara in 1985. To Han, it was all valuable information that could help with the diagnosis. He moved his parents over from China, and they lived with him; his new wife, Jennie; and their daughter, Emily. Dental records confirmed the remains were Barry and Louise. His crimes motivated large demonstrations opposed to violence against women, and in favor of better transportation for the young people residing in Isla Vista. The next year, on July 19, 1987, a sheriff's spokesman told the News-Press, We believe the Bermans were the victims of foul play [but] we have absolutely no motive, and don't, in fact, have any evidence of a crime.. On April 18, 1979, Christiansen offered Lydia Preston, 24, a ride. Fiesta was just around the corner, but a new hot-button issue had just landed in Santa Barbara. Again, there were horrified objections from the Press. The ammunition, Winchester Western Super X copper-coated bullets, matched the bullets used in the other Zodiac murders. Given the circumstances of her death, Shorts murder became sensational, and she was given the name Black Dahlia. When funding for the movie deal collapseddone in, it would turn out, by actions of the State Department and the Shah of IranYanikian began searching for a Plan B. At his Forest Lawn funeral, 350 Armenian rights activists gathered to honor his crime. The story got uglier when some local businesspeople were discovered pouring bleach on food discarded in dumpsters to discouraging homeless foraging. At the time of the killings, his wife, a doctor, had been suffering from severe dementia for seven years, and the once-wealthy family was now destitute. In the end, the media covering Pepe's sex-predator trial and conviction in California never linked the cold case sitting in files in Inyo County. We worked and worked and worked.. But before he became known as the Zodiac Killer, he may have honed his proficiency with the 1963 killings of Domingos and Edwards in Santa Barbara County. Realizing the men were still alive, he pulled out another handguna Browningand shot both in the head twice. The late summer of 1988 brought flash flooding to Saline Valley. Charges filed against Haobsh name special circumstancesincluding premeditation, lying in wait, and murder for financial gainwhich may make him eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without parole. . I could feel the energy of their spirits, Margolis tells the Weekly now. Nearly three years after Barry and Louise Berman vanished, setting off one of the most elaborate searches of its era, the couple's bleached bones and bits of clothing were discovered after a desert hiker spotted a skull, uncovered by heavy rains. By allowing himself to be arrestedhe immediately reported the crime to the hotels front deskhe hoped his trial would become an international showcase convicting Turkey of crimes against humanity. Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced . District Attorney David Minier blocked Yanikians efforts to call Armenian survivors and historians to testify. Copyright 2023 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Haobshs arraignment was postponed due to Dozer, Ladinig, and Montez taking issue with the Public Defenders Office having obtained a weekend order from Judge James Herman to meet with Haobsh in County Jail before he had requested an attorney. They were the nicest young people you could ever meet in your life, Gnesa said. Artists Scaling Down, Thinking Bigger at Santa Barbara City College Exhibition. They searched a maze of narrow canyons and dry waterfalls but found nothing. Her body was cut in half, drained of all its blood, and given a Glasgow smile, with her cheeks sliced open from ear-to-ear at the corners of her mouth. Theodore Glanceys grave | Photo: Connie Anderson, Sonoma County, CA. Note: An earlier version of this story said Mary Sullivan gave birth in Barry Berman's cottage. Domingos was your all-American high school student. Two decades had passed when, in 2006, the retired Marine was arrested and accused of being a vicious child rapist in Cambodia. Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), https://www.independent.com/2016/03/30/inside-han-family-murders/. His mother was a talented ob-gyn, and his father was a dermatologist; medical practitioners went back in the Han family for many generations. The Sun researched three of the most notorious unsolved cases for this story. The paperunder a previous editorhad described Gray as a blatherskite and brazen-faced demagogue and hoodlum. In 1876, Gray beat up William Russell, editor of The Index, another publication, leaving his head a bloody mess. The riders hadn't. Not so much anymore. Not just any property it was adjacent to President Ronald Reagan's Rancho del Cielo. During this time, Christiansen gained a great deal of weight, at one point weighing 275 pounds (125 kg). I'm not going to rest until we have this guy. According to Williams: Solving it is possible.. Last year, both parents died, one two weeks after the other. Senior Skip Day is an event not officially sanctioned by local schools, but it's a day anticipated by many high school seniors. His student visa expired. She had been missing since December 6, 1976. Memorials for family and friends who have lost family and friends to murder. Mannings co-workers at a child abuse hotline were shocked to learn of her death. Zodiackiller.com, however, points to another manRichard Gaikowski, a former Bay Area newspaper reporterwho died in 2004. On May 26, 1979, the decomposed body of Laura Benjamin, 22, was found in a drainage culvert near Big Tujunga Dam. Neither Frederick Smith nor Courtney responded to questions from The Santa Barbara Independent. Not much is known about Frederick, but online searches show he founded the now-defunct oil company Cal Tech International Inc. and was an ex-CIA agent of Jordanian descent. A year later, the crimes moved south to Santa Barbara County. He told the Santa Barbara News-Press that he feared Barry and Louise had been abducted while hunting artifacts. CBD is also found in marijuana, but in hemp, the levels of THCthe compound that gets users stonedare sufficiently low enough to be legal in the United States. Until his arrest, American-born Pierre Haobsh lived with his French-born father, Frederick Smith, or Frederick Haobsh, in rented rooms of an Oceanside house. The unnamed woman repeated to the Weekly what she told long-ago investigators: Mike the Marine told us he'd been in a threesome. Pepe, who told investigators that when alone in the desert he carried a gun, did not respond to multiple letters seeking comment sent by the Weekly. I have a shotgun ready for the day I find out whoever may have done this.. Jim Zemaitis of Santa Maria-based Overland Security said his father, Bruno Zemaitis, a security guard and amateur sleuth, briefly investigated Shorts death. As it turned out, the gun used in all three murders was a .38-caliber pistol (some sources say it was a .45-caliber gun) that had been purchased in October 1980. Their deaths are tragic and mysterious. The gazebo in Alameda park circa 1985 | Photo: Christopher Gardner. Copyright Santa Maria Sun. Domingos cousin, who didnt want to be identified for this story, is now in his 70s and lives in Lompoc. KEYT. Minier made him out to be a sleazeball, noting that Yanikian wrote a book detailing the sex lives of college coeds and that he tried to pick up a waitress two nights before the killings. Peter Cacavas . Barry and Louise's remains were found seven rugged miles above the Palm Spring campground it's unlikely they hiked in, given that Louise had a sore ankle. If the Golden State Killer is still alive, police believe he is somewhere in the range of 60 to 75 years old. But Tramel asked: Have you ever killed a deer with your bare hands? -1 Likes, 0 Comments - Santa Barbara HS Young Life (@sbdonsyounglife) on Instagram: "MURDER MYSTERY CLUB TONIGHT!!! On September 25, 1880, Gray confronted Glancey on State Street, demanding to know if he had written the article condemning his nomination. It made me upset. Any number of people could be a suspect, Zemaitis said. [6], Mary Ann Sarris His redemption was the stuff of much media coverage. He did the one-on-one with the patients; his assistants mixed the herbal concoctions. Christiansen also said he killed his victims, took them to a secluded place, unclothed them, and sexually explored their bodies. He wasnt passionate about the case, but it upset him that they didnt get back to him.. Blondes, Brunettes and Burlesque at Peek-A-View, Hakeem Rowe Talks Insane Career Arc and His Departure From No Jumper, ASTN is Happier Than Ever about his newest release Be So Cruel, RealestK Isnt Nearly As Toxic As TikTok Is, Erykah Badu Drops That Badu Cannabis Line, Best HHC Products to Elevate Your Cannabis Experience, CA Legal Cannabis Faces Its Biggest Blizzard Yet, Understanding The Possible Allergies To Hemp Oil. Michael Stephensons body was found in the gazebo at Alameda Park, where he had been stabbed 16 times and had his throat cut with sufficient force to sever his spinal cord. But his brutal murder at the hands of a cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School here on Aug. 4--the second killing of a transient here in nine months--has become a symbol in an ongoing battle . Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers. The stories vary, but according to Bardach, Hans childhood was unspeakable. Carlson said Han was beaten routinely. She went from house to house, staying on friends couches. [9], On July 27, 1979, after interviewing over 115 persons over the previous two years, Christiansen was arrested for the murders of Patricia Laney, Jacqueline Rook, and Mary Sarris. On the afternoon before they disappeared in 1986, Barry and Louise Berman followed a bone-jarring road deep into the California desert. Although the anticipated response to this statement would be one of skepticism, let me say that we do not make this assertion frivolously, the press release stated. This put him sideways with Chinese authorities. I checked her out, of course, he says. A year and a half later, in July 1981, 35-year-old Cheri Domingo, a corporate secretary, and 28-year-old Gregory Sanchez, an electronic engineering technician, were found shot and bludgeoned to death in a home located on Toltec Way in Goleta, according to an article published at the time in the Santa Maria Times. Instead, he sought out Henry Han. I had a bad feeling about him., When the various visitors broke camp, no one immediately thought to tell the authorities that the Bermans were still out there a serious oversight. Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Noozhawk is a founding member of the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers . Marcus Knutson, a FBI special agent, believes the killer may have a collection of crime scene tokens stashed away somewhere. For the past 30 years, Hana skilled, quietly charismatic, and by all accounts brilliant herbal doctorhad treated roughly 13,000 people, many confronting serious health challenges such as cancer, osteoporosis, and hepatitis. It was the murder of a homeless man in a city decried for its homeless laws in the county where the president lived. But as retired deputy Boyer recently said, it's not that unusual for people to take off into the desert and never come back.. Then on Feb. 2, 1978, he began killing. The next morning, four of those students reported the crime to police, turning over the perpetrators bloodstained clothes as evidence. Most recently, she worked at the herb clinic. Search the newspapers of all the areas you know they lived or spent time in for things such as work or school. As Carlson recalls, Han had patients from all over the country, especially in response to the AIDS epidemic. His political reporting was said to be terse, pointed, and fearless., In hindsight, it seems inevitable that Glancey and Gray would come to blows. The Weekly has learned what three law enforcement agencies have kept to themselves for years: that the former Marine officer, now serving 210 years in federal prison, is Mike the Marine, a desert camper who was extensively questioned in the 1980s and viewed by local police as the prime suspect after Barry and Louise Berman were killed. The Weekly obtained a copy of the transcript of that meeting, which reveals that the Marine captain's life wasn't so square-edged after all. The citation noted that Christiansen had a .22 caliber pistol in his car, which was confiscated by the police. He had just moved to Santa Barbara only a few years after the previous Press editor had been horsewhipped down State Street by the District Attorney, W.T. Though nobody acknowledges it, the massive government response clearly was prompted by Jules Berman's political and business connections. In 1991, he bought out Yu, who moved to San Luis Obispo. On Oct. 1, 1979, a couple from Goleta survived an attack from a man believed to be the Golden State Killer, according to a report in the Santa Maria Times. Maybe this is more noisy. Years into the investigation the case remained unsolved. Susan Pater, at her Southwest Portland home, holds a picture of her sister, Barbara Mae Tucker, who was murdered in 1980. A 2006 film about the murderappropriately titled The Black Dahliastarring Josh Hartnett and Scarlett Johansson was nominated for an Academy Award. According to Inyo County Sheriff's records obtained by the Weekly, Mike the Marine said that he might've spotted the couple hiking the Corridor with backpacks a comment now considered a key admission by investigators. The next day a forensics team unearthed human remains, the underwire from a bra and the waistband from a pair of underwear. The group who claimed responsibility for the murders called themselves the Yanikian Commandos.. The second trial ended in a conviction and a 20-year sentence, but the verdict was overturned when it came out that the jurors had sequestered themselves with 20 gallons of beer, three bottles of wine, and an indeterminate quantity of whiskey. Now, spurred by L.A. Weekly's three-month investigation into the double murders, and 17 years after family patriarch Jules Berman died, Inyo County Sheriff Bill Lutze has reactivated the troubling cold case. [1] In 1979, he killed a young woman from Los Angeles. A front-page photo in the Jan. 24, 1983, Santa Barbara News-Press showed Laura's car marooned with its roof torn open. According to 73-year-old Lee Gnesa, a childhood friend, Domingos was dating Edwards at the time and they were most likely going to get married right out of high school. I saw results within a week, he said. During the tumultuous and freewheeling years of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the San Francisco Bay Area, a killer emerged. In life, Stephenson had made it past his 29th birthday. When Gray moved to Santa Barbara in 1870, he was described as reckless, unscrupulous, audacious, brilliant, enterprising, and witty. An attorney by profession, Gray represented clients who were described as gamblers, members of the sporting set, and habitus of saloons. In less than 10 years, Gray himself was arrested more than 20 times, mostly for fighting. Since Han set up shop in Santa Barbara in the 1980s, there was never anything the least bit woo-woo or New Age about the medicine he practiced. The dirt bike riders cooperated with authorities and provided the Weekly with photos date-stamped Jan 1986 showing they rode the Corridor to Eureka Valley and back on Yamaha bikes that didn't have foot pegs to carry passengers. However, details revealed on zodiackiller.com indicate a connection, concluding that the Domingos-Edwards tragedy has the Zodiacs fingerprints all over it.. Man on Death Row for 1980 Killing of Isla Vista Boy Found Dead in Prison Cell. Soon buttons began appearing bearing the words: Oh no, my friend, oh no.. His father, Joseph, was a career Navy man, his mother, Dorothy, a registered nurse. In 1980, an unknown assailant abducted 19-year old Kym Morgan from a Los Angeles discotheque. Weekly Poll Her ex-husband, former L.A. firefighter Wes Westerman, now retired in the San Juan Islands, remains bitter about her radical awakening, complaining, She met people who brought in drugs. Jennie, whom Neely remembers as vivacious like Emily, waitressed for two years at Saigon Noodle House about six years ago, said the restaurants manager, who preferred to be identified as David. A California man convicted of killing a Santa Barbara County family, including its 5-year-old daughter, will serve life in prison, a judge ruled Friday. It was just the kind of guy he was.. Words were exchanged. In a 2008 blog post, Courtney said their mother, Nancy Berchtold Haobsh, 55, had died from lymphatic cancer. No other details wereprovided. On Dec. 30, 1979, Debra Manning and Robert Offerman were killed in Goleta, near Santa Barbara. Sgt. The number of currently unsolved California murders is absolutely shocking. . He didnt want them to suffer, he later testified, but he also told the jury, I destroyed two evils. When Han, normally precise and punctual, did not show, the partners grew concerned. At age 8, he watched Turks slit the throat of his older brother. Barry was our only child, the grieving Jules Berman said in a Nov. 16, 1988, Los Angeles Times article. Korb says that sometimes, after a heavy rain, ancient artifacts on the land are exposed including human remains. Their excursion to Saline Valley was meant as a make-up trip: They'd visit Death Valley and tour Scotty's Castle to see its exquisite ironwork. Yanikian was found guilty of murder and received a life sentence. 1980 in Ventura, when Charlene Smith, 33, and her husband Lyman . Three years before he died, Berman told UCLA's oral history program that, because of the brutal killings of his son and daughter-in-law, My philosophy is, if there's a God, he's not for me; he's for someone else.. SEAL BEACH (*2 unsolved murders) Cindy Van Cott, age 24, March 30, 1980 Van Cott, a young factory worker who lived in Santa Ana, was last seen alive at about 11 p.m. March 29, when she left a . In 1943, she was arrested in Santa Barbara for underage drinking and sent home to Massachusetts on a train. The most recent killing linked to the Golden State Killer occurred in 1986, and he has remained elusive ever since. I quickly took care of that, he says. When Henry Han was shot to death last week, nearly 200 patients suddenly found themselves without their doctor. In the early 1940s, before her grisly murder in Los Angeles, Short spent a considerable amount of time in Santa Barbara County. Bobby was always thoughtful.. Yanikians defense was diminished capacity brought on by the trauma he experienced as a genocide survivor. He caught the attention of investigators in February 1977, when he was cited for being a minor in possession of liquor. But for the longest time, the killer has gotten away with it. As Carlson described it, He went underground for a while. It was surreal, she recalls. Westerman, Louise's son from her first of four marriages, still chokes up remembering her. The two campers, the sheriff's office realized, weren't your average missing visitors they were neighbors of President Reagan and had disappeared into an unforgiving desert of mazelike canyons. Thor Nis Christiansen was born in Denmark, and emigrated to the United States with his parents when he was five years old. Wouldyou sign up for any of the relief plans for natural gas bills? In person, he radiated a calming clinical confidence. At his home in Carpinteria, Korb recalls telling Barry, Man, you've got to check this out., The stark desert site where the Bermans' remains were found; Credit: Photo by Doug Kari. A federal prosecutor told the Weekly that the double murder didn't happen in her jurisdiction, so it wasn't up to her to act on it. Charismatic and manipulative, hed been conjuring schemes with a secret society he dubbed The Nine. He talked of building missiles and sodium bombs and trip wires. His father, liquor importer Jules Berman, became known as Mr. Authorities believe he could still be alive. He became so brazen with his reputation that the Golden State Killer taunted the public in a poem he sent to Sacramento-area news outlets. He'd spent years building the nationally known Kahlua Collection an awe-inspiring number of pre-Columbian burial effigies by cutting deals with relic hunters. Zemaitis mother waited on her occasionally at the diner. He died the next day, lamenting: I am dying without seeing my dear little wife-girl.. For a while, Han worked with an herbal practitioner named Jean Yu, owner of the Herb Clinic. With philanthropist Kit Tremaines support, the homeless people of Santa Barbara became one of the best organized in the country. If anyone has new information about the murder, not previously reported to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department, please contact Lt. Eric Koopmans, at (805) 681-4100, between 8:00 am. Henry Han originally opened his clinic in the Lobero Building in downtown Santa Barbara and subsequently at its current location behind Chucks steak house on upper State Street. It was a terrible irony when flash floods in a distant desert uncovered the remains of his friends. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which can investigate crimes involving Marine Corps personnel, began working on the case, and lead NCIS investigator Cheryl Craycraft dogged Michael Pepe. A couple was found murdered at their home in Ventura. She was working as a secretary and living with her teenage daughter, Laura, in Goleta. faces new murder charges, this time in Santa Barbara County . Name index of death index created by the California Department of Health Services, Vital Statistics Section in Sacramento. She was last seen on November 20, 1976. In 1873, Gray sought the Republican Party nomination for District Attorney and came within seven votes of winning. When asked whether he could hear from his position behind protective glass, he said, Yes, I can. When asked if, at prosecutors request, he agreed to postpone his arraignment by two weeks, he said, Yes, I do.. He said Jennie would bring Emily every week to eat at his Hollister Avenue restaurant. 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