Coast Killings: Bizarre Case Widens, By John M. Crewdson, July 11, 1977
Born and raised in Lubbock, Tex., David Hill was the seventh of nine children in a poor but devoutly religious family that was left fatherless when J. W. Hill hanged himself in his cell at the Lubbock city jail. He ledâ what some of those who remembered himâ described as a purposeless childhood distinguished only by his prowess at, roller skating.
'Army and Marriage'
In 1959 he dropped out of high school and joined the Army, only to be discharged soon after his induction for an unspecified medical disorder. He returned to Lubbock and married his high school sweetheart, Mary Elizabeth Carlson, but the marriage lasted only a few months.
After the separation, David Hill, by all accounts dispirited and troubled, moved to Los Angeles and began to drift from place to place and job to job, a pattern that would not finally end until his incarceration by the Riverside County sheriff's office 10 days ago.
In 1962, at about the time Mr. Hill moved to California. Patrick Kearney, fresh from a hitch in the Air Force, took a job as an electrical engineer with the Hughes Aircraft Corporation a major defense contractor that specializes in building military satellites.
Significance: Primarily developed between 1941 and 1953 and in continuous use to the present, the subject structures of the Hughes Aircraft Company, Culver City plant, constitute a unique and remarkably intact example of one of the first large-scale aircraft production centers.
One Hughes official said that Mr. Kearney, a native of Los Angeles, had obtained a Government security clearance and described him as âan extremely diligentâ workerâ who kept to himself. Someone else who knew him said that, although he had never earned a university degree, Pat Kearney had a reputation as âa real electronics whiz.â
At what point the two men met is uncertain, but in 1968 they moved into house in Culver City where they lived on Mr. Kearney's salary of about $20,000 a year and what little money Mr. Hill picked up from various jobs, mostly as an attendant in bathhouses catering to homosexuals.
Last Thursday, Los Angeles County deputy sheriffs ripped up the wooden floor of the garage at the Culver City house, where the two men had lived until 1970, and pulled out the skeletal remains of a man they said they believe to have been the pair's first victim, someone Mr. Kearney could remember only as âGeorge.â
Both Mr. Kearney and Mr. Hill have acknowledged their homosexuality to the police, and the homosexual community here, one of the largest in the nation, fears that the publicity given to the case will, only reinforce the sort of anti-homosexual sentiment gaining favor with followers of the Save Our Children movement headed by Anita Bryant, the singer.
Nearly all of the relatively few members of the homosexual community who knew Mr. Kearney and Mr. Hill or knew of them declined to talk about them, whether for attribution or not.
But one of those willing to discuss the lair said that they had not been fixtures in the homosexual bars and discotheques that have proliferated in and around Hollywood in recent years although some of their victims had been seen there For the past seven years, according to this source. Mr. Kearney and Mr. Hill remained close to their Redondo Beach home, their only apparent recreation consisting of occasional weekend flying trips to places like Las Vegas in planes rented by Mr. Kearney, a licensed pilot.
'Kept to Themselves'
Even in Redondo Beach, the two men were not well known. âFrom the time they moved in they kept to themselves,â Jeanne Hellinger, neighbor, said. âThey didn't want to be friendly.â George Julsonnet, who runs the CorkâN Bottle liquor store across the street fromâ their house, remembered Mr. Kearney as a frequent customer who rarely bought anything stronger than candy, âlots of candy, especially licorice.â
Jerry Stevens who manages the S and S Market next door, said that the only time he noticed Mr. Kearney was on two occasions a few years ago when he expressed interest in buying a butcher knife with a 10âinch blade. âBut he never did buy it,â Mr. Stevens said.
A second source, a close friend of Mr. Hill's for several years who declined to disclose his name, provided a more detailed account of the life shared by the two men in the years that the murders were taking place.
This source, who would talk to The New York Times only through an intermediary, characterized Mr. Kearney, slight, bespectacled man, as quiet and shy, and recalled that he invariably kept his bedroom door locked.
The source described Mr. Kearney as strange, and said that he had become upset whenever Mr. Hill invited guests into their house.
According to one police investigator with a detailed knowledge of the case, most of the murders were probably committed in the house and the bodies dismembered there before they were buried.
In contrast to Mr. Kearney, whom the source described as a humorless and colorless man given to wearing dark, conservative suits with narrow lapels and narrow ties, Mr. Hill, who is tall and slender and wears a mustache, was portrayed as relatively easygoing, someone who had no goals in life except for one. The source said that was a compulsion for gambling. He said that Mr. Hill was reserved at times and at other times could âhave us in stitches.â He described him as an accomplished mimic.
His only affectation, the source said, was his hair, which he alternately grew long and then cut short, dyeing it black, red, blond and then black again.
The source said he had seen only two indications In more than five years that violence might have played a part in the lives of the two men. Once, he said, Mr. Hill displayed for him a small gun that was kept in the house. Investigators have said that nearly all the victims were shot through the head. On another occasion, he said, he was with the two men in a small plane piloted by Mr. Kearney when Mr. Hill asked him to submit to a sexual act. When he refused, an unsmiling Mr. Hill opened the aircraft's door and threatened to throw him out, he said.
âReligious Tiesâ
The Hill family's strong religious tiesâone of Mr. Hill's brothers is a minister in the fundamentalist Church of God and Mike Hill, a nephew who visited him in jail last week and left him a Bible, is a ministerial studentâapparently have remained a part of Mr. Hill's life.
The source said that Mr. Hill would ask questions about hell and about when the antiâChrist was coming. The two men, he said, talked often about their shared belief that such a malevolent figure would soon appear to ârule the world for a seven year period of tribulation.â
During much of their friendship, the source said, Mr. Hill seemed troubled with some kind of guilt. He said that he always seemed afraid of going to hell and that he felt as if he was living in a nightmare and wanted to wake up.
But the friend said he ascribed those feelings to Mr. Hill's battle to accept his homosexuality and nothing more.
The source said he thought he had detected some kind of psychological hold exerted by Mr. Kearney, clearly the stronger of the two men, over Mr. Hill. Others, including some of those who have talked recently with members of Mr. Hill's family, have also suggested the existence of such a relationship.
'Returned to Texas'
About two years ago, family members recalled, Mr. Hill returned to Lubbock for a long visit and gave the impression that he was trying to âbreak awayâ from Mr. Kearney. But after persistent telephone calls from California, they said, he returned to Redondo Beach.
One detective said that Mr. Kearney, in his talks with law enforcement officers, had displayed little remorse and discussed the murders in matterâofâfact terms, while Mr. Hill had seemed extremely distraught.
Another police official said that the evidence gathered thus far would not preclude the possibility that Mr. Hill, who has protested his innocence to family members, might in fact have played little part in the murders, or even none at all. But the official said he doubted that that was the case.
What continues to baffle investigators is the question of motive. Mr. Kearney, they say, has so far not offered an explanation for the actions, apart from the fact that he has referred angrily to some of the victims as âhustlers and phonies.â
His father George Kearney was a member of the Los Angeles Police Department.
Drained the blood of many of the victims.
Lived near a film studio that once housed Desilu Productions.
Kearney had a keen interest in math and science and even had an IQ of 180.
https://www.programmedtokill.net/bonin-kraft-kearney
I want to create my own series based on PTK, Freed to Kill by Gera-Ling Kolarik, and Long Haul by Frank Figliuzzi, former FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence. The FBIâs Serial Killer Initiative shows that more than 90% of bodies discovered in certain cases are found within 90 feet of a highway. After a string of bodies were found along Oklahoma highways, local police created a database and discovered most victims were dumped roadside. The FBI expanded this effort nationally and began connecting similar cases across the U.S. However, there are two major issues with the research: (1) Input into the database VCAP Violent Criminal Apprehension Program is voluntary, so many small or under-resourced departments donât contributeâespecially with older cold cases that could help establish patterns; (2) Many of the victims are women sex workers, but cases involving male victimsâespecially male sex workersâoften receive even less attention and fewer investigative resources, despite examples like Herb Baumeister, Dahmer, and Gacy. Figliuzziâs Long Haul highlights key trends in these cases, focusing on killers like the Toy Box Killer and the Scorecard Killer. A common pattern is that many of these offenders are long-haul truckers who pick up victims in one jurisdiction, murder them in another, and dump the bodies in a third, complicating investigations across state lines. Iâd also like to explore a comparison of the killers and the types of vehicles they usedâoften extended vehicles like hatchbacks or trucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaHgvDZ7A2g
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/news/stories/2009/april/highwayserial_040609
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGQoyDUMybw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_gRSO4Hak&t=46s
Jailhouse interview with convicted murderer Tina Munro (Bill Bonin co-defendant)
Interesting neighbours
https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/11/archives/coast-killingsbizarre-case-widens-multiple-slayings-on-coast-a.html
LOS ANGELES, July 10âWhen 17âyearold John Lamay failed to return to his home in El Segundo one Sunday night in March, his mother began to worry. âHe'd spent the night at a friend's house a couple of times before without telling me,â Patricia Lamay said, but never on a school night, and she sensed that something had gone wrong.
Early the next morning she called classmate, who suggested that she get in âtouch with another of John's friends, a man twice his age named Dave who lived a few miles away in Redondo Beach, one of the cluster of towns than line the Pacific coast about 20 miles south of here.
(...)
For the past seven years, according to this source. Mr. Kearney and Mr. Hill remained close to their Redondo Beach home, their only apparent recreation consisting of occasional weekend flying trips to places like Las Vegas in planes rented by Mr. Kearney, a licensed pilot.
âKept to Themselvesâ
Even in Redondo Beach, the two men were not well known.
âFrom the time they moved in they kept to themselves,â Jeanne Hellinger, neighbor, said. âThey didn't want to be friendly.â
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/joan-hellinger-obituary?id=8713927
Joan VanRaalte Hellinger Ph.D.
1925 - 2019
In 1955 Joan married Bernard Hellinger, MD, a psychiatrist, who shared her fascination with the study of the mind and human relationships
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/latimes/name/bernard-hellinger-obituary?id=10190860
Bernard Hellinger M.D.
Bernard S. Hellinger, M.D. July 3, 1925 - January 5, 2012 Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, who deeply touched the lives of all who knew him and practiced more than 50 years in New York, NY, Lexington, KY, and Beverly Hills, CA, died Jan 5, 2012. He left us in the love and grace that exemplified his life. He was a lifetime fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a member of the New Center for Psychoanalysis, Sr. Surgeon (Lt. Col.) in the US Public Health Service and a member of the clinical faculty at UCLA. He is survived by loving wife Joan, sons Douglas and James, grandchildren Jason and Michele, niece Skye Van Raalte-Herzog, daughters in- law Valeria and Catherine, among many others who adored him and will miss him greatly. Born in Brooklyn NY, he was an accomplished athlete and scholar, admired for his keen intellect and exceptional leadership abilities. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley and completed his MD at the age of 22 from UC San Francisco. He soon developed a fascination for the study of the mind, psychiatry and psychoanalysis, which became his life-long passion. He trained in psychiatry at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, NY and later enlisted in the Public Health Service where he rose to Deputy Chief of Psychiatry of the Narcotics Hospital in Lexington, KY. In 1955 he married Joan Van Raalte, the love of his life, and returned to New York to start a family. They followed his beloved Brooklyn Dodgers out West, where he began psychoanalytic training at the Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Institute (LAPSI) and set up private practice in Beverly Hills. He thrived at LAPSI where he served as Research Director and enriched colleagues with his efforts to bring together the many disciplines that study the mind and brain. He maintained an active affiliation with UCLA, supervising a generation of psychiatrists in the subtleties of the mind and psycho- therapeutic technique.
https://lexmedicalhistory.wordpress.com/2017/04/25/u-s-public-health-hospital-1935-1974/
The U.S. Public Health Hospital in Lexington has been known by many names including the Lexington Narcotic Farm and the Clinical Research Center. Opened in 1935, the art-deco facility originally sat on 1,000 acres and was a unique combination of a prison, treatment facility, and research institution. The history of the facility has shaped subsequent drug treatment research.
MKULTRA
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/mkultra/mkultra4/DOC_0000020476/DOC_0000020476.pdf
Prominent MKULTRA scientist Harris Isbell was the director of the Addiction Research Center in narco farm in Lexington.
Tony Stewart was born in Bloomington, Indiana in June of 1957. At age four, he moved to Los Angeles, California with his father, Estill, and younger brother, Ron. In 1967, he was introduced to Stewart by serial killer Patrick Kearney by a Real Estate agent named Reid Wilson. Stewart was offered a job doing yard work for Kearney, in which he accepted. Later, both Tony Stewart and his brother Ron would nearly become victims of this mad Killer, but both would survive to tell the true story. It was this ordeal that inspired Stewart to extensive research and write this story, The Trash Bag Murderer.
Kearney lived two and a half blocks from the Stewart residence. "In the mid- 1960s, I used to mow Kearney yard for $3.00 a week. He always invited me to his house, but I never went in. It was the right decision." Tony Stewart
The author would learn much later that a police officer actually lived next door to Patrick Kearney. He had vicious trained police German shepherds.
Contrary to reports, very few of Kearney's victims were actually homosexuals. In fact, many of the murder victims were so young that they were still virgins, and did not even have a sexual preference yet. Regardless, police jokingly labeled the murders, "The Gay blades, incorrectly suggesting that all the victims were gay. In the nineteen sixties and seventies, homosexuals were still not accepted openly in the public or society, as they are today. This was at a time when homosexuals were hiding their sexuality in the closet, and this is precisely why Riverside Superior Judge Gerald Schulte imposed a gag order on the Trash bag murderer case, during court proceedings. The gag order prevented the press from publicizing the procedures, especially since a few of Kearney's victims were homosexual celebrities, involved in the entertainment business. The names of these entertainers have never been publicized, but we know that Kearney did have sexual contacts with several of them.
* 1952 - (L.A.P.D.) Los Angeles police officer and father George Kearney purchases a .22 caliber gun for his thirteen year old son Patrick Kearney, and teaches him to kill pigs by shooting them behind the left ear; a method he explained that causes very little bleeding, and is very effective. 'Killer Kearney' later uses this method on human beings in one of the bloodiest slaughters in U.S. history.
"I don't know how to say it. When I was 8-years-old I felt like killing people and dismembering them. Have you ever seen that movie Carrie? You know you saw how they treated her and she was surprised at her prom, that's the way I was treated!" - Patrick Kearney (July 1, 1977)Â
His first sexual experience was with the family dog.
Kearney would become fluent in Spanish, and later mastered several other languages, including Chinese, Japanese, some Russian and Arabic. He became fascinated with foreign languages.
At Hughes Aircraft, Kearney's supervisor said; "He was an ideal worker, a model worker." His supervisors would later describe his demeanor as an employee as "clear and prompt." His other duties included deciphering and identifying parts from damaged Russian military aircrafts. Kearney's employers were impressed that one of Kearney's talents was that he could read, write and speak five to six languages fluently. Regardless, Kearney felt angered that several coworkers were taking advantage of him, even though on the surface, he appeared to be very conservative towards others.
Kearney tested various electronic and avionic systems. He would also identify and describe the uses of top-secret parts recovered from Russian aircrafts from recent crashes. Kearney was very intelligent and Hughes Aircraft depended on him to identify cold war Russian aircraft parts. The Russians had developed horizontal stabilizers, with a 28-degree dihedral used on the wings on jets and later on Russian manned space planes. Kearney's job was to assemble and figure out what they were for and how they worked.
Returning home from work one day, Kearney overheard a couple of young men in front of his house talking about Hill. He listened as these young men spoke out loudly about Hill performing oral sex on several of the neighborhood boy's. The Kearney residence was becoming popular in the area and this news was quite disturbing to Kearney. He was worried that having sex with minors could bring the police knocking on his door, and this was the last thing Kearney wanted. These incidents would lead to several heated arguments that would spiral into intense fights, until Hill eventually stomped out of the house and left. Many of Hill's friends later became Kearney's victims. Hill would spend several nights away with friends until things eventually cooled down. The relationship would continue to become turbulent and disorderly over the next ten years. It is surprising that Kearney never killed Hill during these disagreements. He had killed several people for far less reasons, if for any reasons at all. Within a year, Kearney and Hill moved to Culver City, and everything cooled down for a while. Hill began meeting new friends at local bathhouses, and would disappear from time to time. On one of these occasions, he left for three to four days to visit his wife, Linda, in Texas. During this time, Hill told Linda he had gone back to California, but promised to return for her. When he didn't return, Linda went to California looking for him. When she located Hill, he decided to leave Kearney again and reconcile with Linda. This didn't work out because Hill couldn't find a job. As with his previous attempts, Hill most likely did not try too hard to find a job. Oddly, Hill persuaded Kearney to let him and Linda move in with him. Now, Kearney, Hill and Linda were all living together under the same roof. It did not take long before tribulations began, and there was a lot of tension in the air. As tempers flared, a jealous Kearney attacked Hill during a heated fight and caused him to move out with his wife, Linda, Kearney would later admit that this was when he killed his first victim "George."
One of the first victims around Christmas time in the late 60âs named Jorge/George was, according to Kearney, heavy into narcotics.
Kearney was friends with victim Kenneth Buchanan. Phone records indicate this.
Victim Oliver Molitor had a father working as a manager of a movie theater in Hermosa Beach. Kearney said both the boy and his uncle were gay. Detectives made contact with Mike McCormick who was the projectionist at the Cove Theater regarding Molitor. McCormick stated he knew Molitor and had seen him often at the theater recently. The mother went on to tell detectives that her son had many problems in school, and had suddenly changed from receiving an A and B average to D's and F's. He became truant most of the time, until 1976, when he finally dropped out of school entirely. According to police records, Molitor had also been arrested for burglary. Molitor's mother added that her son had several homosexual contacts, and was leaning heavily in that direction. She added that he had many older homosexual friends, one of which was a motorcycle shop owner in Lawndale who drove a big black limousine and had taken her son to Hollywood several times.
Victim David Allen, 27, was enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He was stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, California.
Nicky Herandez was described as a male prostitute of Redondo Beach. He was known as ââNicky - Wonder buns,ââ because supposedly his buttocks were shaped just like a woman. Police found nude pictures of Nicholas with buns showing, and said if you put your thumb over his face, he really did look just like a female. Nicky had sexually serviced both Kearney and Hill on numerous occasions, and was well liked in the homosexual community. Whether it was a case of Kearneyâs jealousy of his lover David Hill being involved in sexual activities with Nicky or something else is not clear.Â
Seventeen-year-old James Barwick was found dead on Saturday, September 22, 1973 off of San Pasqual Road, just southeast of Escondido. There is not much known about this murder, except that he was killed, raped, and dumped like discarded garage by Kearney. However, there is a bit of history about the vicinity where Kearney dumped Barwick's body. It was in the same location where the famous bloody battle of San Pasqual took place on Friday, December 6, 1846. Was it just a coincidence that the battle was under the command of General Stephen Watts Kearny? One has to inquire whether Patrick Kearney was actually related to General Kearny or not? The spelling of the name Kearny is different, but many ancestors of the eighteen hundreds often misspelled their last names due to lack of education. Did Kearney know that General Kearny had fought and died 127 years prior to the murder of James Barwick? If so, the killer may have intentionally picked this location to dump Barwick at the very same spot. The battle of San Pasqual took place in the San Pasqual Valley southeast of Escondido. In 1846, the American army under the command of General Kearny fought to win California from Mexico. Kearny and his 120 troops defending the west had arrived from Missouri through New Mexico. The story goes that Kearny's men were tired and hungry when they were ambushed and defeated by Mexican forces led by General Andres Pico.Â
Police detectives described Rivera as a "Street runner," and a well-known male "Homosexual prostitute." He had been picked up several times on suspicion of selling marijuana and other drugs. Albert Rivera's dead body was located off Otay Lake Road 2.8 miles east of Wueste Road in Cula Vista, California. In his wallet, police discovered that Rivera had an Oregon driver's license with the name Thomas John Father, and birth date listed as August 1954. Father immediately became a suspect, but was later ruled out by an alibi. It appears that Rivera may have stolen Father's wallet. Father told police that his wallet had been missing for about three weeks.
There is some controversy on Kearney's next victim Larry Gene Walters. Even though Walters was another confirmed Kearney victim, there was a different serial killer who was active at the time named Randy Kraft. Kraft is often falsely identified as the slayer of Walters. Kraft was born in Long Beach and was murdering young men about the same time as Patrick Kearney. Kraft was also as deadly as Kearney. He preyed on homosexual military men and mutilated his victims using methods that were nearly identical to Kearney's techniques.Â
After undressing his victim, he admitted plucking pubic hairs from the groin area to distinguish whether he were still alive or not.
If police had examined the family phone records at the time of his disappearance, they would have learned that Kenneth Buchanan had called Patrick Kearney on several occasions. This action may have given detectives a lead in the case, and perhaps an arrest, which would have ended Kearney's killing spree and saved several lives. In fact, the police should have pulled phone records of previous victims also, but they did not take these disappearances seriously enough.
Detective Roger Wilson said Michael McGhee was in and out of trouble, and well known by local police for suspicion of crimes ranging from car thief, and sexual offenses to burglary. He added that McGhee was a small-time petty criminal, who just couldn't seem to stay out of trouble. In my research, I could not find any criminal records on McGhee.
"Micheal is never out of my mind, also the fact that the Redondo Police Department was not nice at this time; I remember calling, and I asked if there was any news of Mike. I heard the officer say to a woman, 'It's 'Mrs. McGhee calling to see about Mike.' Her answer was, 'Tell her not to call back, we will bring him home one way or the other.' I thought that was so cold and unfeeling. I often wondered if she ever had children. My daughter and I usually go to the parole hearings but had to miss the last one due to illness," said Betty McGhee.
20-year-old Wilford Lawrence Faherty was found on Saturday, August 28, 1976, on Otay Lakes Road in Southeast San Diego County. Initially, police thought the murder was drug related, since reports indicated that Faherty was a known drug dealer. Evidence would later reveal that this was not a drug related murder; it would later be discovered as another Trash Bag murder.
After the disappearance of his son in 1975, Steven Demchik told his wife and four children that he was off to Northern California to find a better paying job, in truth, he left to search for his son. "I figured he might be up in San Francisco. I used to spend my weekends just driving around the city and on the highways just to see if I could spot him. I dreamed of him up there. The last dream I had, he was in a dungeon. He was calling me. I asked him, 'Where are you?' He never answered. I went through a lot of hell."
On Friday, March 18, at approximately 9:30 a.m. The remains of John LaMay, a well-known homosexual, were discovered in a highway underpass, just south of Corona. LaMay even called to the residence of Kearney to inform about a meeting up with David Hill.
Kearney: ââI did a lot of correspondence with people with different kinds of ads in the free press and everything. Trying to find people who were interested in going to Mexico with me.ââ
Kearney dumped pieces of the victim's cadaver in trash bins behind restaurants such as McDonaldâs, Jack in the box, and Winchellâs Donut Shop.
Patrick Kearney contacted the Redondo Beach police to report a burglary at his residence. The official police report indicated that Kearney reported several guns and other items stolen which included, a .357 magnum colt trooper, a two inch .38 smith and Wesson with two inch barrels, a .22 H&R pistol with a two inch barrel, a .410 shotgun, two pairs of handcuffs, and two two-way portable "Walkie talkie" radios. A routine check on other weapons purchased by Patrick Kearney and David Hill revealed that in addition to those weapons reported missing, they still had in their possession, three .22 caliber derringers, and an H&R caliber revolver.
A few weeks later, police received a call that shots had been fired in the backyard of the Kearney residence at 1906 Robinson Street. David Hill had been shooting cans in the backyard with a .22 derringer. Shortly after the incidents, Patrick Kearney arrived home. Ten minutes later, police arrived at the residence, and were knocking on the door to question Hill and Kearney about the shooting. Both denied the incident, stating that they did not shoot any weapons. They added that they don't like guns, nor do they own any guns. The officers on the scene were puzzled; they reminded the two men of the burglary they had reported in an official document, in which several guns had been stolen from the residence. The officers also told them that they had prior information that a witness had watched David Hill shoot at cans in the backyard, and even kill a cat on one occasion. This information was acquired during the murder investigation, while questioning a man about Hill and Kearney. At the time, the two were not yet suspects.
After confronting the two men about the incident, and the fact that the officers had prior knowledge from a source that they had been target practicing in the backyard, they reluctantly admitted guilt. They promptly admitted to having a pellet gun, and small blue steel .22-caliber six-shot revolver Rossi Pocket vest. A nervous Hill and Kearney promised there would not be any further shooting. They were let off with a stern warning about shooting weapons within city limits, with a strict warning that if officers should have to return, extreme measures would be taken, which included possible jail time. Kearney was extremely furious at Hill for carelessly bringing police to their front door, but the incident was soon forgotten.
My brother, and I, often wondered why David Hill was set free, when we both knew Hill was somehow involved with Kearney's crimes. So why didn't David Hill go to prison? One reason is that Kearney was worried what jail would do to Hill. During an interview with police, Kearney said he was worried about Hill going to jail, because he may attempt commit suicide Kearney told police all the details about Hill's father and how he hung himself in a Texas prison, years earlier. Kearney protected Hill because he cared about him, besides he needed someone on the outside that he could trust to keep in touch. For thirty years, Hill and Kearney may have this dark secret.Â
I wish David Hill could have answered one question under oath, while connected to a lie detector, "Was he involved in any of these murders, and if not, then why was he chasing my brother with Patrick Kearney many years ago?" We are absolutely certain he was involved either directly or by accessory to murder. There is no doubt about Hill's involvement, yet five counties let him go free, and he immediately fled back to Texas.
Another question that has always puzzled me is the night when I was at Kearney's house and Hill came home. I believe that if Hill would not have returned home when he did, then I would have surely become a victim. We know that Hill was with Kearney when he chased my brother, so why didn't he help Kearney kill me that night? There can only be one answer. Hill had to know about the killings, and whether he was directly involved or not, one thing was certain. Hill was probably tired of the murders, and the fact that the victims were his friends. When Hill came home that night to see Kearney, and me, he acted as if he was upset. He did not mutter a word, until Kearney told him to speak. Even then, he acted as though he didn't want to talk. I believe at this point, he was disgusted with all the murders, and didn't want anything more to do with it.
Below is a list on property taken in conjunction with a search warrant that was served in the search Patrick Kearney and David Hill's address at 1906 Robinson Street in Redondo Be Item numbers attached and labeled on each piece of evidence and dated June 3, 1977, in reference to file: A 187PC, E177077025. Some of these items would reveal several dark secrets about both Kearney and Hill.
Items found included:
Item # 1 - 1 each small and brown suitcase containing miscellaneous papers
Item # 2 - Miscellaneous papers from desk drawer in Patrick Kearney's
Item # 25 - 9 credit membership cards from the drawer in Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 27 - 4 each 35-millimeter photo slides from Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 39 - 1 each special agent badge from the drawer in Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 46 - 2 boxes of 35 millimeter slides from top of shelf in Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 48 - Miscellaneous magazines from dresser in Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 49 - 1 each photo album from top of dresser from Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 48 - Miscellaneous magazines from dresser in Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 49 - 1 each photo album from top of dresser from Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 51 - 1 each International Private Investigators badge from Kearney's bedroom.
Item # 56- 2 each cassette tapes from the bedroom door in Kearney's bedroom.
(And a shitload of guns and ammunition throughout the residence which I am not gonna all include here)
One each notebook from the top shelf in Dave's room containing notes pertaining to one book of pictures from Dave's closet. One each Selective Service card in the name of Dave Hill from dresser in Hill's. Eight books from the shelf in Hill's bedroom.
Item # 61 - One black book and Decker jig saw from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 62 - One book on sex and witches from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.
One packet of BLANK cards in Hill's bedroom.
One each pocket knife from the top dresser drawer in Hill's bedroom. One each Derringer holster from the dresser drawer in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 67 - One book entitled "Show of Violence" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 68 - One book entitled "Helter Shelter" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 69 - One book entitled "Sue the Bastards" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 70 - One book entitled "Route 66" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 71 - One book entitled "Infamous Erratics from shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 72 - One book entitled "Heitman's Inferno" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.
Item # 73 - One book entitled "Kill Three" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.Â
Item # 74 - One book entitled "Distility" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom. 112Â
Item # 76 - Miscellaneous bits of clothing and black billfold from trash can in Hill's bedroom
Item # 75 - One book entitled "Adult Lad Lovers" from a shelf in Hill's bedroom.
Item # 89 - One each card from Regency Club with name David Marshall from desk drawer in living room.
One each file box with porno films from the hall closet.
One each file box with letters and papers in the attic.Â
Five boxes of 35 millimeter slides from the shelf in the front room.Â
Three each stacks of papers from the attic. Three each sheath knives from the attic.
Item # 94 - Miscellaneous film negatives from desk in living room.Â
Item # 95 - One each empty notebook from the living room desk.Â
Item # 96 - Miscellaneous bank statements from living room desk.
Item # 101 - Miscellaneous letters from a box in the attic.
One box of 35 millimeters slides from the kitchen cupboard near the utility room.Â
Back in the early 1960's, Patrick Kearney and David Hill became so obsessed with what would become legal evidence years later, during a search of their residence in Redondo Beach, California. Detectives found several books of interest in suspect David Hill's room. For a man murder stories and began reading anything they could find. Several books they collected for reading about hurting and murdering adults and young children. 14 books were taken as evidence included, Sex and Witches with several chapters that discusses "The fear of women power, Manhood through Violence, Man's fear of Women and sex, and Handmaids of the devil. The book describes, "Sex and The Witches' Sabbath and the Witches' Gathering, which became known as the Sabbath, which drew more attention from the investigation than any other aspect of Witchcraft."
Normally, these books and others found at the residence would not have been a big deal, but in this case, scores of people were murdered at the residence. The books became legal evidence along with several other items, which included the loaded .22-caliber revolver found under David Hill's mattress in his bedroom. Why would David Hill keep a loaded weapon under his mattress? Was he aware of Kearney's murdering addiction or did he actually know that Mr. Hill and Kearney both chased my brother in a pickup truck on at least two occasions, which proves that Hill had some knowledge of Kearney abducting children, but we are not completely sure how in-depth was his involvement? David Hill was never thoroughly investigated like he should have been. Also he refused to take a lie detector or
may have shined some doubt on his innocence.
Oddly, in 1972, Henley told police the exact location where other bodies had previously been buried, but the officers felt they had enough victims, and the search was called off. Police did report seeing two men digging holes in Galveston County, during this year, but would not search for more bodies, since the case was officially closed. Why would police give up on victims with parents and relatives worrying and wondering what happened to their loved ones? This is very strange, but the same situation had also happened in the Kearney case. Several of his victims have still not been recovered, and police gave up a copycat killer, while adding mutilations to the death mix. Houston newspapers described questioning Kearney on this matter. Kearney used Corll's methods of killing, to later become how employees at his Corll 's work said they saw him with several clear rolls of thick plastic, similar to the plastic trash bags that victim's bodies were found in. Kearney read how victims sodomized.
Tony Stewart asking Homicide Detective Roger Wilson questions about David Hill's part in the murders and fleeing the counter with Kearney.
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Stewart: Mr. Wilson, from a detective's standpoint, do you feel that Kearney protected David Hill?Â
Wilson: Yeah, I think so.Â
Stewart: You also mentioned something about an airplane incident, in which Kearney and Hill were trying to dump a dead body out of an aircraft, but failed. What happened?Â
Wilson: Hm...the guys (Kearney and Hill) were in an airplane, and they were gonna throw the one guy out, but they couldn't get the door open.Â
Stewart: Do you have any idea who the guy was?Â
Wilson: No, Kearney would not repeat the story, when asked again.Â
Stewart: Now, who told you this story?Â
Kearney or Hill?Â
Wilson: KearneyÂ
Stewart: It sounds like Kearney backed out of that one, because Hill's name was involved, and wanted to protect him. The kind of thing two lovers would do to protect each other.
Wilson: Yeah.Â
Stewart: In May of 1977, Kearney contacted his grandmother, Mrs. Phalen and asked her to sell his house, truck, and personal property. He told her a friend of theirs had been killed and police were harassing them, and he and Dave Hill were going to Canada. It sounds like they were leaving the country. What are your thoughts on this? Were they about to escape the country? It appears as though an innocent Hill was fleeing with him. Mrs. Phalen also said Mr. Hill had been so nervous and jittery that he could not eat or do anything.
Wilson: It sounds like Hill knew something at this point.
There is another alternative to this story. What if David Hill was the actual killer and Kearney was his whippy assistant that helped to lure in the victims? Hill was about 6'3', he was a big guy, while Kearney was barely 5"7'. Kearney worked while Hill did whatever he pleased. Looking at the relationship, it actually appeared that Hill was the "Man of the house, "whereas Kearney seemed more the woman that complained a lot, but did what he was told. The last night that I was at the Kearney residence, the latter seemed very nervous as soon as Hill walked in the front door. Did Kearney take the rap for Hill, or were they both involved? One thing is for certain, whatever the real story was, Kearney and Hill took a long vacation to get their stories straight just before they surrendered to police. The stories were well rehearsed. Guilty or Innocent? Many have begun to question David Hill's innocence, and even today this suspicion remains. Before Kearney actually told officers that Hill was completely innocent of murder changes, he began asking questions about, "What if Hill was guilty or an accomplice or an accessory to the crimes, would he go to jail?" The officers told him that it would depend on the actual time when Hill became knowledgeable of the murders, whether he would be guilty or not. "David will probably get a year or two for all this, and it will probably do him some good; it'll allow him to grow up," said Kearney. Kearney also said he was worried about Hill, because his friend was a nervous man who may try to commit suicide like his father had done year's prior, while in jail. Kearney said David Hill didn't have any idea about the murders until police had come to the house and began their investigation. He added that Hill was neither involved in nor aware of the murders. Then Kearney admitted to committing all the murders, while Hill was away, while his lover and companion in crime, a free man. There was definitely more to this story that Kearney was hiding. Did Kearney take all the blame to save his nervous lover from jail, or was Hill really innocent of murder changes? Either way, Kearney succeeded in cleaning the blood off Hill's hands.Â
Riverside District Attorney Byron Morton told the press the evidence against Mr. Hill was weak. Morton added that much of the information unearthed by Riverside investigators exonerated Hill of any crimes. McMillan said he was not surprised the grand jury refused to indict Hill, stating that he did not think there was sufficient evidence to hold him in Superior Court. Both Riverside District Attorney Byron Morton and Public Defender Malcolm MacMillan said there was insufficient evidence to hold David Hill on any charges? No Charges? What about the fact that both Hill and Kearney admitted having a sexual homosexual relationship with LaMay and others? LaMay was 17-years-old, which made him a minor, and I believe Hill could have been charged with statutory rape of a minor at the very least. Also there were several other minors that both Hill and Kearney admitted have sexual relations with.
[According to California Penal Code Section 288a, Partial clip of the law (b) "Any person shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or in a county jail for a period of not more than one year. 2) ... any person over the age of 21 years who participates in an act of oral person who participates in an act of oral copulation with another person who is under 14 years of copulation with another person who is under 16 years of age is guilty of a felony. (c) (1) Any age and more than 10 years younger than he or she shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years."]
So why wasn't Hill ever charged with having sex with minors? Was it because they were all murdered? Did Hill's attorney walk his client, who may have been a murderer or rapist, out the police department to freedom? Did he free a guilty person?
Another important fact that was brought up by Detective Roger Wilson of the L.A. Sheriff's Department that points to Hill's possible involvement in a murder was in a confession from Kearney. During the years when Kearney worked at Hughes Aircraft, he decided to take up flying like his brother Michael. Michael Kearney was President and chief executive of Spacehab in Texas, a large company that worked directly with NASA. Patrick Kearney was always jealous of his younger brothers and their achievements. In the next several years, Kearney would earn over three hundred flying miles.
Guy Sorensen and his father Robert C. Sorensen also knew Patrick Kearney. Robert was a close friend of Kearney's and was also his co-worker at Hughes Aircraft. Guy's comments give us another insight of who this killer really was. "I knew Patrick W. Kearney since I was 6 years old. He worked with my father at Hughes Aircraft in El Segundo. He had been a friend of the family for 11 years, until he was arrested. I thought I knew Patrick very well, but obviously not. We lived in Costa Mesa when I first met Pat. I liked him immediately. He helped us move from Costa Mesa to Cerritos in the early seventies. He was my father's best and only friend. I sat in the truck with him many times alone and he was always friendly. We had gone to a number of company picnics and Pat would always greet us. He was also very fond of going to Tijuana. My father, Robert C. Sorensen and a friend of mine would go with Pat down to Baja and they would go their way and we would go ours. My dad said that Pat would bring him to bathhouses in TJ. I knew Pat very well from the mid to late sixties up until his arrest in '77.' Pat had murdered my girlfriend's brother. I say the body count is a little shy of how many young boys and young men fell prey to Pat's insatiable appetite to dominate and destroy every male he could get his hands on, but his preference was young surfer types. "He spoke the language fluently and he couldn't take his eyes off my friend, and I thought that strange and actually began to get a little jealous why he was giving my friend so much attention. My friend was muscular, with blonde haired and blue eyes. Pat's preferred prey item. I couldn't get a word in edgewise. He was trying so hard to engage my friend in conversation; it made me feel uncomfortable and a bit awkward. My friend just thought he was really cool. David Hill knew everything Pat was very conscientious when it came to the people he trusted. He was very protective. That's one of the reasons he didn't run. He was protecting the people he was close to from having to answer some embarrassing questions by the police. My father actually went with him to buy the gun used in some of the later murders. He wanted to get caught, He was tired of killing but he had lost control and could no longer stop himself. If you know Pat at all you know he's a multiple personality. Thank God my father was his best friend and my father was also 6 '3'' and a heavyweight golden glove boxer who was the preverbal gentle giant his fists are the size of bricks. Pat was a real paradox when it came to the people he sincerely liked and the people he pretended to like. I truly am thankful that you and your brother got free of his grasp. He was a true genius, but like most highly intellectual persons, he fell short on sincere emotion and was severely stunted."
According to authorities, Kearney doesn't have any contact with the outside world, and is only aloud out of his cell for twenty minutes a day. He is not allowed to correspond with anyone. Mule Creek State Prison's annual operating budget is $135 million to house over 3,500 other prisoners. Taxpayers pay $38,571 dollars to feed, clothe and house Kearney each year, not counting medical expenses. This is more money than most American even earn in a year.
Charles Manson was Kearney's neighbor at Corcoran State Prison in California during the mid-nineteen nineties.
Recent letters from Patrick Kearney have been released attacking the author (Tony Stewart) and the printing of this book. It appears that the truth really hurts. Seems the angry killer; Patrick Kearney is now seeking revenge while attempting to include the author as an accomplice in his murders, which is complete nonsense. Kearney is actually trying to say that Author Tony Stewart hand- delivered all his murder victims to this killer. He is also denying the murders of victims that he once confessed to, stating that he was only protecting his lover David Hill and others.
(Source: The Trash Bag Murderer by author Tony Stewart)
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(Source: The Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, California 29 Jan 1981, Thu ⢠Page 24)
Neighbors who lived doors away while the two men supposedly were there said they did not know Kearney or Hill. "People over there seemed to come and go an awful lot,â said Peggy Stronks. âI used to play out there before they moved there and while they lived there," said 20-year-old Linda Metcalf. "We used to dig back there and everything."
(Source: Desert Sun, 8 July 1977)
The sheriffâs affidavit indicated that Kearney, 37, and Hill, 34, were first suspected in the series of mysterious murders when a friend of theirs, John LaMay, was found dismembered last March 18. In an interview with authorities in April, Kearney and Hill said they had both had homosexual relationships with LaMay over a period of two years, the affidavit said.
(Source: Desert Sun, 6 July 1977)
John Lamay was something of an exception. A Junior at El Segundo High School at the time of his disappearance, he had never run away from home or been in trouble with the police. "He liked to drink a little bit, just beer," his mother said, but she described him as a "loving" boy who made friends easily, including girlfriends, and who had never caused her any heartache before she learned of the circumstances of his death. From talks with others who knew John, a slightly different picture emerges. School officials remembered him as an Indifferent student, frequently truant or tardy, who bung out with "a low-motivated crowd." Students who knew him said he was ft talented maker of Jewelry who liked to hitchhike along the Pacific Coast Highway near his home, a principal "cruising" area for older homosexuals looking for young boys, and whose only real peculiarity, according to one girl, was that he would make unusual remarks about sex sometimes.
In many ways, John Lamay's life was not unlike that of David Hill, his friend and, now, his accused murderer.
(Source: San Bernardino Sun, 11 July 1977)
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Patrick Kearney and David Hill, avowed homosexual lovers charged with killing and dismembering two men and suspected in 26 other slayings, seemed ordinary to their neighbors except for Kearney's fascination with knives. "He liked to come in and look at the butcher knives," grocery store owner Jerry Stevens said Tuesday. "He'd ask me to take one down and he'd look at it and handle it and ask me about the steel. Then he'd put it back. But it wouldn't be a week before he was back looking at them again." Stevens described Kearney as "a loner, with an eerie sense of quiet about him." Others in the peaceful residential area where the two men lived said there was no hint of their involvement in the multiple slayings for which they are being questioned. "They were very quiet, very nice," recalled Rob Longacre, who lived next door to Kearney and Hill for more than four years. "It's just one of those things that you can't believe."
Kearney's conservative demeanor was a sharp contrast to his more flamboyant roommate, according to liquor store clerk George Julsonnet. "He (Hill) would come in one day as a redhead, one day as a blond and another time he'd have black hair," Julsonnet said. "But they weren't troublemakers they kept to themselves." Kearney and Hill were visited frequently by young men, Julsonnet recalled, until their disappearance about six weeks ago.
(Source; Santa Cruz Sentinel, Volume 121, Number 157, 6 July 1977)
At what point the two men met is uncertain, but in 1968 they moved into a house in Culver City where they lived on Kearney's salary of about $120,000 a year and what little , money Hill picked up from various jobs, mostly as an attendant in bathhouses catering to homosexuals.
(Source: San Bernardino Sun, 11 July 1977)
Lived near a film studio that once housed Desilu Productions.i find that very interesting.
The Catholic convent where serial killer William George 'Bill' Bonin was sent in 1953. Here, orphans claimed to face severe beatings, drowning in sinks/toilets, sexual abuse, enduring of stress positions, and even assault with knives. From 6 to 9 years old, Bonin believed his parents to be dead.
Vernon Butts was a semi-professional magician and factory worker who met William Bonin at one of Everett Fraser's parties around the age of 20. Bonin was in his early 30s, and they were basically gay lovers. As a kid he was bullied heavily by his peers, and developed a fascination with worshiping the devil in his teens.
He was further ostracized and bullied for his occultic interests and intrigue for black magic. He apparently started killing people playing Dungeons and Dragons "for real," in which he'd operate as a serial killer in the sewers of Los Angeles.
In and out of prison, he developed a passion for homosexual sadism and by 1979 was hooked by Bonin's "hypnotic effect." Bill told his final accomplice James Munro that he and Vern would also kill kids together, in addition to playing Dungeons and Dragons "for real" and practicing black magic.
He committed suicide in 1981, by hanging himself on a towel rack. Some have speculated he was murdered.
Freeway Killer probe finds two styles at work SANTA ANA (AP) A forensic psychologist who performed a computer analysis of 51 deaths in the Freeway Killer investigation said Monday he has concluded an unknown killer may be responsible for as many as 28 of the deaths. đ
Redondo Beach - very close to Manhattan Beach (1983 McMartin scandal)
Desilu Productions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desilu_Productions
Desilu Productions (/ËdÉsiluË/) was an American television production company founded and co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball.
William Turner, Jonn Christian - The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Serial Killer Patrick Kearney Reveals Details About Lee Harvey Oswald
'In June of 1968, his college deferment having evaporated, Randy joined the Air Force. Abandoning Reserve Officer Training Corps as a sophomore left him without much of a bargaining position when he went to his recruiter. Despite his bachelorâs degree, he entered as an enlisted man. But he did well for himself anyway. Recruiting records show that he scored in the mid-nineties in just about every category of the Air Force aptitude tests. The Defense Department also put him through a background check and granted him a âsecretâ security clearance.'
Both circumstantial and DNA evidence caused numerous investigators to believe that not all of the murders Randy Kraft committed were committed alone. The prosecution believed that certain facts could only be explained if Kraft had had an accomplice in several of the murders. First and foremost, he would have had a hard time dumping a 200-pound corpse from a moving vehicle alone without being noticed and without compromising his driving. Abrasions and debris found at some of the crime scenes indicated that the bodies had been dumped from a vehicle moving more than fifty miles an hour.
In addition, footprints in the sand close to where John Lerasâs body was discovered at Sunset Beach in 1975 indicated that two people had carried the corpse to where it was dumped. Semen samples found on Eric Churchâs body were inconsistent with Randy Kraftâs DNA. Finally, the photographs of the victims found in his vehicle had to have been processed somewhere. Kraft did not have a darkroom or equipment able to do this at his residence or where he worked. But there wasnât a photo developer around that admitted to having printed Kraftâs morbid images.
During the trial, prosecutors confessed confidentially that they hadnât charged Kraft in a few of the murders they were certain heâd committed because the facts pointed to more than one suspect. While DNA evidence found on the body of Eric Church wasnât compatible with Kraft, investigators found photographs that depicted Church in Kraftâs vehicle, and they found his razor in Kraftâs home. One person suspected of helping Kraft was Jeff Graves, Randyâs first live-in boyfriend. The prosecution believed Graves might have assisted Randy in several of the murders. Graves, who had lived with Randy between 1971 and 1976, was questioned about the Crotwell abduction and murder in 1975 when he verified part of Kraftâs statement to the police. When he was questioned further about the incident and Kraftâs arrest in 1983, he denied responsibility. He died of AIDS on July 27, 1987. At the time he died, the police were gearing up to question him again about the murders.
Randyâs trial was the longest and most expensive in Orange County history at the time. It lasted thirteen months and cost ten million dollars, but the appeals process dragged on for even longer. Even though Kraft was arrested in 1983, he did not face trial until 1988. In 1989, he was convicted of sixteen counts of murder, one count of sodomy, and another count of emasculation.
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