Serial killer in santa ana ca

Detectives say there may be more victims in and outside of California. Full Story. Watch Now. Local News. Weather Traffic U. Station Info. Newsmakers Our America Localish. On Nov. Police had entered the three women in the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System and had also been checking jails, hospitals and morgues for any signs of them.

We've been doing a lot of things to find her, and now we found her dead," said Anaya's aunt, Angelica Salcedo. Blue Gum Street.

She was later identified as year-old Jarrae Nykkole Estepp. Investigators say her naked body was facing down and partially covered in trash.

The suspects allegedly targeted the victims because of their ties to prostitution and escort services. Anaheim police say both suspects were required to wear GPS tracking bracelets as a requirement of their conviction. The Santa Rosa hitchhiker murders were a series of at least seven unsolved homicides involving female hitchhikers that took place in Sonoma County and Santa Rosa of the North Bay area of California in and All of the victims were found nude in rural areas near steep embankments or in creek beds near roads.

Her body was found the following day down an embankment in a creek bed twenty feet off Enterprise Road in Santa Rosa. The victim had been bound at the ankles and wrists, raped and slowly strangled with a cord for an estimated thirty minutes. Lori Lee Kursa, 13, a Lawrence Cook Middle School student, [10] had been reported missing by her mother on November 11, [3] after disappearing while they shopped at a U-Save and was last seen on November 20 or 21 in Santa Rosa while visiting friends, [10] having deliberately run away.

The killer had thrown the body at least thirty feet over an embankment. The victim had not been raped and likely died one to two weeks prior to discovery. Why was there no blood on her or her car? Why did she wait several hours to call police to their Huntington Harbour condo? An Orange County jury convicted her of first-degree murder in Strangely enough, Dyson was not the only wife who hired a hit man to kill her husband in Huntington Beach in Two others did the same thing:.

Jeanette Hughes was convicted of having husband Jim Hughes shot to death as he slept in their bed. And Anita Ford was convicted of arranging the killing of husband Barry Ford, who was found shot to death in an industrial park. Local police were flabbergasted; premeditated spousal murders are rare. Statewide, 57 women killed their husbands in , and many of those killings occurred during a fight or argument.

In all three Huntington Beach cases, detectives alleged, the women conspired with male friends to kill their husbands for insurance money.

There must be something in the water. Dyson was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. She has been denied parole several times, and is eligible again this year. What : A Mission Viejo woman awoke to the sound of gunshots in her bedroom on the night of Aug. For more than a year, Ramirez, a year-old drifter from Texas, terrorized Southern California in a rampage of murder, rape, mutilation and sodomy. The press nicknamed him the Night Stalker because he sneaked into homes at night through unlocked doors and windows.

He killed his victims with handguns, knives, a machete, a tire iron and a hammer. As Ramirez drove away, she struggled to a window and got a description of his orange Toyota station wagon that led to his arrest. What : On Nov. He drove to her workplace, a Huntington Beach dry cleaner, found it ransacked and called police to report her disappearance. That night, they raped and strangled Murray, 19, and left her body in the bathtub.

Five days earlier, the couple had abducted and killed Redlands insurance clerk Corrina Novis, 20, and buried her in a vineyard. What : David Brown was out buying comic books — he made sure of that — when his year-old daughter climbed on his bed and shot his wife, Linda, twice in the chest. A visibly shaken David Brown, 36, said he went out that night to get away from the bickering between his wife and daughter. He drove new cars and bought new homes. In , the teenager told detectives that her father and Bailey had plotted the murder, assuring her that she was too young to go to prison.

They gave her a. Both Cinnamon Brown and Bailey testified against David Brown in his trial, which spawned a made-for-TV movie and two true-crime books. He died in What : She just vanished one night. Newport Beach waitress Denise Huber was returning home from a Morrissey concert when her Honda had a blowout about 2 a. Friends found her car just south of Bear Street in Costa Mesa.

But there was no sign of Huber for more than three years — until Arizona authorities found her decomposed body in a freezer belonging to Famalaro , a former Lake Forest house painter. As a child, Famalaro was spanked at home and bullied at school. As an adult, he stalked one girlfriend and handcuffed another. Then in the early morning hours of June 3, , he saw Huber, 23, stranded along the freeway. Famalaro ordered a new Montgomery Ward freezer and had it delivered to the Laguna Hills warehouse where he lived at the time.

Over the next three years, Famalaro moved the cubic-foot, chest-style freezer to other storage sheds, always insisting the power be kept on. In , a jury took less than six hours to convict Famalaro of first-degree murder. He was sentenced to death and remains on death row.

What : When she married on Nov.