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Lake Elsinore: 1974–1992: 13+ Serial killer known as "The Riverside Prostitute Killer" and "The Lake Elsinore Killer" [122] 15: Gypsy Hill killings: San Mateo County: 1976: 5+ Homicides of young women and girls by a suspected serial killer known in media as the "San Mateo Slasher" [123] [124] 16: Steven David Catlin: Bakersfield, Fresno: 1976 ...
The Bloody Island Massacre (also called the Clear Lake Massacre) occurred on what was then an island called in the Pomo language, Bo-no-po-ti or Badon-napo-ti (Island Village), at the north end of Clear Lake, Lake County, California, on May 15, 1850. [3] [4] It was a place where the Pomo had traditionally gathered for the spring fish spawn ...
The California Indian Wars were a series of wars, battles, and massacres between the United States Army (or often the California State Militia, especially during the early 1850s), and the Indigenous peoples of California. The wars lasted from 1850, immediately after Alta California, acquired during the Mexican–American War, became the state ...
A Bay Area man was found dead Tuesday after he fell from a cliff during a mountain biking trip in Sierra County, the Sheriff’s Office said. Joel Lusk, 60, of Berkeley was reported missing Monday ...
Shortly after statehood, the California state government appointed its first State Geologist and began commissioning geologic surveys of its own. The state appointed John B. Trask to the position of State Geologist, and he served from 1850 to 1856. He compiled a report titled "On the Geology of the Sierra Nevada, or California Range."
High surf is also expected along some Southern California beaches, approaching 18 feet in Ventura County and 12 feet in L.A. County. ... being blamed for the death of a man who was found pinned ...
Barbara Storm was a young German woman from Schüttorf who disappeared on 13 May 1972 was found dead on 17 May 1972 in a forest that was close to Schöppingen after being beaten and strangled. [132] She is believed to have murdered by the "Münsterland Killer". Murdered 4 days 1972 Kerry May-Hardy: 22 United States of America
A woman was found Aug. 13, 1991, face down in the Sacramento River, just one mile south of the Meridian Bridge, by a farmer turning on an irrigation pump, the Colusa County Sheriff’s Office said ...