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Allen spent about two years at Atascadero State Hospital, which seeks to treat pedophiles. ... This trip aligns with the timing and locations of murders of Robert Domingos, 18, and his fiancée ...
Atascadero State Hospital (ASH) opened in 1954, as a state-run, self-contained public sector forensic psychiatric facility. It is enclosed within a security perimeter, and accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
He pleaded guilty on March 14, 1975, and was imprisoned at Atascadero State Hospital until late 1977. [86] Robert Graysmith, in his book Zodiac Unmasked, claimed that a Sonoma County sheriff revealed that chipmunk hairs were found on all of the Santa Rosa Hitchhiker victims and that Allen had been collecting and studying the same species. [87]
He was admitted to Atascadero State Hospital for a 90‑day evaluation period to determine if he was fit to stand trial. He stayed there until February 1971, when he was deemed able to stand trial. [2]: 514–515 On October 12, 1971, Watson was convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder and one count of conspiracy to commit murder. [14]
According to This Is the Zodiac Speaking, Paul was institutionalized at Atascadero State Hospital when David, Connie and Dan were young, leaving the Seawater matriarch to care for the kids on her own
The wife tried unsuccessfully to get a restraining order against him. Days later he fatally stabbed her.
On August 26, a judge declared Liberty insane, [3] and he was ordered to spend 90 days at the Atascadero State Hospital in San Luis Obispo County. In February 1967, a judge accepted a plea of insanity and Liberty was found not guilty by reason of insanity in Landis' murder, and he was transferred to the Vacaville State Hospital. [2]
He was committed to the California state mental hospital system, beginning at Atascadero State Hospital. He was then transferred and held at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino. In 2016, the 77-year-old was transferred to the less secure Napa State Hospital. The families of Allaway's victims protested his transfer. [4]