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PK Hattis, reporter with the Santa Cruz Sentinel, has the latest updates in the case of Cliona Ward, the Irish woman detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Californians were terrorized by multiple killers including notorious serial killers like the Zodiac Killer, the Hillside Stranglers, Herbert Mullin, and Ed Kemper. While the decade may have ended with these killers disappearing or apprehended, the threat of violence and murder simply moved north.Though less known than his contemporaries, David Carpenter was no less prolific and frightening a killer than those men mentioned above. Nicknamed “The Trailside Killer” by the press, Carpenter terrorized Point Reyes and Santa Cruz County for a decade, assaulting, kidnapping, and killing at least eight people, but he was suspected of more. Like those other killers, Carpenter had a long history of violent and antisocial behavior going back to his childhood, including multiple arrests and incarcerations. How was it that a man with such an alarming history of violence could go uncaught for a decade?Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesAssociated Press. 1980. "Trail Killer will strike again." Santa Cruz Sentinel, December 1: 1.Burkhardt, Bill. 1979. "Woman found murdered on Mt. Tam." San Francisco Examiner, August 21: 1.Graysmith, Robert. 1990. The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate. New York, NY: Onyx.Keraghosian, Greg. 2020. "'Do not hike alone': For 21 months, the Trailside Killer terrorized Bay Area's outdoors." San Francisco Chronicle, October 25.Leader, Lewis. 1980. "Identification ends dad's long quest." San Francisco Examiner, December 2: 2.San Francisco Examiner. 1960. "MP's shots foil attack on woman." San Francisco Examiner, July 13: 1.—. 1961. "Presidio attacker gets 14 yrs." San Francisco Examiner, March 10: 11.—. 1960. "Sex case insanity plea." San Francisco Examiner, October 8: 5.Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1970. "Boulder Creek girl attacked." Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 29: 22.—. 1970. "Grand jury indicts con." Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 17: 7.—. 1970. "SLV kidnap suspect flees Calaveras jail." Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 27: 1.The People v. Carpenter. 1997. S004654 (Superior Court of Los Angeles County, April 28).The People vs. David Carpenter. 1999. S006547 (Superior Court of San Diego County, November 29).Todd, John. 1980. "Tam closed in hunt for clues." San Francisco Examiner, October 16: 1.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Throughout the 1960s and 70s, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Californians were terrorized by multiple killers including notorious serial killers like the Zodiac Killer, the Hillside Stranglers, Herbert Mullin, and Ed Kemper. While the decade may have ended with these killers disappearing or apprehended, the threat of violence and murder simply moved north.Though less known than his contemporaries, David Carpenter was no less prolific and frightening a killer than those men mentioned above. Nicknamed “The Trailside Killer” by the press, Carpenter terrorized Point Reyes and Santa Cruz County for a decade, assaulting, kidnapping, and killing at least eight people, but he was suspected of more. Like those other killers, Carpenter had a long history of violent and antisocial behavior going back to his childhood, including multiple arrests and incarcerations. How was it that a man with such an alarming history of violence could go uncaught for a decade?Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesAssociated Press. 1980. "Trail Killer will strike again." Santa Cruz Sentinel, December 1: 1.Burkhardt, Bill. 1979. "Woman found murdered on Mt. Tam." San Francisco Examiner, August 21: 1.Graysmith, Robert. 1990. The Sleeping Lady: The Trailside Murders Above the Golden Gate. New York, NY: Onyx.Keraghosian, Greg. 2020. "'Do not hike alone': For 21 months, the Trailside Killer terrorized Bay Area's outdoors." San Francisco Chronicle, October 25.Leader, Lewis. 1980. "Identification ends dad's long quest." San Francisco Examiner, December 2: 2.San Francisco Examiner. 1960. "MP's shots foil attack on woman." San Francisco Examiner, July 13: 1.—. 1961. "Presidio attacker gets 14 yrs." San Francisco Examiner, March 10: 11.—. 1960. "Sex case insanity plea." San Francisco Examiner, October 8: 5.Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1970. "Boulder Creek girl attacked." Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 29: 22.—. 1970. "Grand jury indicts con." Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 17: 7.—. 1970. "SLV kidnap suspect flees Calaveras jail." Santa Cruz Sentinel, April 27: 1.The People v. Carpenter. 1997. S004654 (Superior Court of Los Angeles County, April 28).The People vs. David Carpenter. 1999. S006547 (Superior Court of San Diego County, November 29).Todd, John. 1980. "Tam closed in hunt for clues." San Francisco Examiner, October 16: 1.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Throughout the early 1970s, California's Bay Area was in the grip of terror as multiple serial killers operated at the time same time and in more or less the same space. In time, some of these killers, like Ed Kemper, would be caught, while others, like the Zodiac Killer, would remain unidentified. Yet it was the ones who appeared to kill at random, without any preferred victim, that would prove the most terrifying and most difficult to catch. Herbert Mullin was one such killer, and while he may have been active for a very short period, he managed to do a tremendous amount of damage in such a little amount of time.Over a five-month period in late 1972 and early 1973, Herbert Mullin killed thirteen people, including a college girl, a Catholic priest, and a former high school friend and that friend's neighbors. To investigators, Mullin's victims appeared to be—and indeed largely were—chosen at random and the weapons used were chosen more out of convenience than pathology. Had Mullin's final murder not been committed in full view of witnesses, there's a very good chance he would have gone on to kill many more people before being caught, if he ever was.Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesAssociated Press. 1972. "Dragnet set up for Catholic priest's slayer." Los Angeles Times, November 4: 34.Dowd, Katie. 2022. "'Murder capital of the world': The terrifying years when multiple serial killers stalked Santa Cruz." SF Gate, August 21.Green, Ryan. 2024. I Hear Voices: A Descent into the Dark Half of Psychotic Killer, Herbert Mullin. Herefordshire, UK: Independent.Honig, Tom. 1973. "Did Mullin slay fourteen." Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 10: 1.—. 1973. "Mullin enters plea: innocent, insanity." Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 13: 1.—. 1973. "Mullin explains his reason for killing." Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 15: 1.—. 1973. "Mullin is found guilty." Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 20: 1.—. 1973. "'Overtones' of drugs in five slayings." Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 28: 1.—. 1973. "Slaying suspect called a 'quiet, regular guy'." Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 15: 1.Lunde, Donald, and Jefferson Morgan. 1980. The Die Song: A Journey into the Mind of a Mass Murderer. New York, NY: Norton.Santa Crus Sentinel. 1973. "Suspect charged in six shootings." Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 15: 1.Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1972. "Another disturbance at SC County Jail." Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 14: 19.—. 1972. "Body of slain transient is identified." Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 16: 10.—. 1972. "Investigator hired to find Cabrillo coed." Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 26: 46.—. 1972. "Priest slain in confessional box of church." Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 3: 2.Smith, Dave. 1973. "Killer of killers? Town waiting for answer." Los Angeles Times, February 19: 3.United Press International. 1973. "Friends claim man charged with 7 deaths used drugs." Sacramento Bee, February 16: 21.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Throughout the early 1970s, California's Bay Area was in the grip of terror as multiple serial killers operated at the time same time and in more or less the same space. In time, some of these killers, like Ed Kemper, would be caught, while others, like the Zodiac Killer, would remain unidentified. Yet it was the ones who appeared to kill at random, without any preferred victim, that would prove the most terrifying and most difficult to catch. Herbert Mullin was one such killer, and while he may have been active for a very short period, he managed to do a tremendous amount of damage in such a little amount of time.Over a five-month period in late 1972 and early 1973, Herbert Mullin killed thirteen people, including a college girl, a Catholic priest, and a former high school friend and that friend's neighbors. To investigators, Mullin's victims appeared to be—and indeed largely were—chosen at random and the weapons used were chosen more out of convenience than pathology. Had Mullin's final murder not been committed in full view of witnesses, there's a very good chance he would have gone on to kill many more people before being caught, if he ever was.Thank you to the Incredible Dave White of Bring Me the Axe Podcast for research and Writing support!ReferencesAssociated Press. 1972. "Dragnet set up for Catholic priest's slayer." Los Angeles Times, November 4: 34.Dowd, Katie. 2022. "'Murder capital of the world': The terrifying years when multiple serial killers stalked Santa Cruz." SF Gate, August 21.Green, Ryan. 2024. I Hear Voices: A Descent into the Dark Half of Psychotic Killer, Herbert Mullin. Herefordshire, UK: Independent.Honig, Tom. 1973. "Did Mullin slay fourteen." Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 10: 1.—. 1973. "Mullin enters plea: innocent, insanity." Santa Cruz Sentinel, June 13: 1.—. 1973. "Mullin explains his reason for killing." Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 15: 1.—. 1973. "Mullin is found guilty." Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 20: 1.—. 1973. "'Overtones' of drugs in five slayings." Santa Cruz Sentinel, January 28: 1.—. 1973. "Slaying suspect called a 'quiet, regular guy'." Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 15: 1.Lunde, Donald, and Jefferson Morgan. 1980. The Die Song: A Journey into the Mind of a Mass Murderer. New York, NY: Norton.Santa Crus Sentinel. 1973. "Suspect charged in six shootings." Santa Cruz Sentinel, February 15: 1.Santa Cruz Sentinel. 1972. "Another disturbance at SC County Jail." Santa Cruz Sentinel, September 14: 19.—. 1972. "Body of slain transient is identified." Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 16: 10.—. 1972. "Investigator hired to find Cabrillo coed." Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 26: 46.—. 1972. "Priest slain in confessional box of church." Santa Cruz Sentinel, November 3: 2.Smith, Dave. 1973. "Killer of killers? Town waiting for answer." Los Angeles Times, February 19: 3.United Press International. 1973. "Friends claim man charged with 7 deaths used drugs." Sacramento Bee, February 16: 21.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Send us a textWe catch up with multitasker extraordinaire, Erin Hines, Beverage Director at both Guesthouse and Mijo in Marin, and the proprietor of Bitter Girl Bitters 

The Santa Cruz Sentinel reports that many blind and visually impaired listen to a video without visuals and can't get the whole experience. That's the experience the blind and visually impaired have when using social media and watching video tutorials. University of California, UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Department and Baskin School of Engineering Professor Sri Kurniawan is trying to solve the problem. Professor Kurniawan and her colleagues are working with the blind community to find useful features for new auto-generated audio description programs. Professor Kurniawan is here to talk about her mission.        For more info related to this week's show, go to: https://speakingoutfortheblind.weebly.com/list-of-episodes-and-show-news/for-more-information-episode-358-quest-for-improved-audio-description Ways to Connect to Speaking Out for the Blind Amazon Alexa enabled device (RECOMMENDED) “Alexa, Ask ACB Media to play Media 1”. (1 = stream number).   PC / browser access (RECOMMENDED): Visit acbmedia.org at http://www.acbmedia.org/1 (1 = stream number). The site has a built-in media player and there is no need to install or use a media player on your device. Hit the play button and the stream will begin playing immediately. Smart device Access (RECOMMENDED): Download “ACB Link” from your app store. Find “Radio” along the bottom of the screen, then “Menu” in the top left corner. Select “Live Streams” and then choose “ACB Media 1 - Mainstream.” Double tap the play button. Victor Reader Stream Access: Navigate to “Internet radio library” in the “online bookshelf”. Locate the Humanware playlist. From the playlist, select ACB Media 1 (1 = stream number) and hit play.   Alternate Dial-In access Dial 1 (518) 906-1820. Listen to the menu prompts and press 1. IMPORTANT NOTE The ACB Radio Tuner is no longer supported. If you used the tuner in the past, you may access all ACB Media streams from acbmedia.org (see above) If you are using alternate ways to access ACB Media streams than those above (such as Tune In or Winamp using acbradio.org URL's, we kindly ask that you use one of the methods above.   Facebook page is at Speaking Out for the Blind and X (formerly Twitter) page is at SpeakOutfortheBlind (you may also access this at SpeakOutBlind).

Send us a textFor our Season Five Finale, we welcome Leanne Battelle, the restaurant review writer for the Marin Independent Journal (and the editor of the Real Deal Marin website) and Daedalus Howell, the editor of the Pacific Sun (and Bohemian) for a lively discussion on the state of the restaurant business 

Send us a textWe welcome Damon Boelte, the owner of the award-winning Downtown Brooklyn cocktail bar, Grand Army, as well as the host of the acclaimed radio show, The Speakeasy, which recently won the award for Best Broadcast from Tales of the Cocktail, to talk about cocktail competitions. 

Send us a textWe welcome back to the program well-traveled Marin mixologist Jason Sims, who is not only Bungalow 44's longtime managing partner, but now also the managing partner of the newly opened Corner Bar in Mill Valley

On Monday October 19, 1970 in the midst of the Manson family murder trials and with two serial killers on the loose, both the Zodiac and the Co-ed Killer, firefighters in Soquel, CA discover the bodies of five people in the swimming pool of a wealthy home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Through a note left at the scene a murderous cult took responsibility for the Ohta family murders. Join me as I tell John just what happened and who was responsible.  Sponsors: Ibiana Unlock your inner wit today by downloading the Ibiana app and sign up. Or get more information at ibiana.com. Join the hunt today (it's free).  Sources: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/supreme-court/3d/5/287.html https://projects.scpr.org/timelines/capital-punishment-in-california/ https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/Santa-Cruz-mass-murderer-kills-self-in-prison-3221281.php https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/571aa1b2b278eb1f40c3970e109bbcb4.PDF https://lookout.co/i-wanted-to-see-the-co-ed-killer-in-a-wheelchair-old-and-broken-down-revisiting-edmund-kemper/ https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-the-santa-cruz-serial-killer-epidemic/article_9b3d46d5-6be8-5fc0-9779-93e77924685a.html Murder in California: Rage and Revenge  By Marques Vickers, 2021 Accessed through Everand Newspaper articles from the Santa Cruz Sentinel from October 20, 1970-November 23, 1973 accessed through Newspapers.com

Send us a textEpisode 109: The Other Stayner Brother Newspapers.comhttps://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/serial-killer/heroism-and-horror-one-brother-was-kidnapped-the-other-became-a-serial-killerThe Sacramento Bee, “Searchers looking for 3 missing on trip to Yosemite” By Ralph MontanoThe San Francisco Examiner, “They vanish near Yosemite” By Larry D. HatfieldThe Sun, “Three people disappear after visiting Yosemite”The Modesto Bee, “$50,000 bounty added for missing car” By Daryl FarnsworthThe Atlanta Journal, “Car of missing tourists found” By Cynthia Hubert & M.S. EnkojiThe Albuquerque Tribune, “Two Bodies found in car; 3rd victim is still missing” Santa Cruz Sentinel, “Serial killer profilers puzzled by Stayner”https://people.com/crime/where-is-cary-stayner-now/Patreon Supporter: https://www.patreon.com/operationevilpodcastBuy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/operationevil Link to Operation Evil Notebook for purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Evil-Notebook-Crime-Podcast/dp/B0BQY4RNRD/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KD47LOHSZM1L&keywords=nyoka+johnson&qid=1677893619&sprefix=nyoka%2Caps%2C180&sr=8-1 Operation Evil's TikTok: @operationevilpodcastFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/NyokaandRachael/Support the show

We chat with Alex Tarantino, the first new GM at the Buckeye Roadhouse in over a quarter century about what it means to take over a legacy restaurant.

We welcome Scott Beattie, the author of 2008's “Artisanal Cocktails: Drinks Inspired by the Seasons from the Bar at Cyrus” and is the man behind the bar programs at Barndiva, Goose and Gander, Spoonbar,  Meadowood, and Hog Island in San Francisco, and now Watershed in Mill Valley.

Part 2! It's 1924 and 23-year-old, Winona Green, has confessed to murder. Join us in this two-part case as we follow this woman through her next fifty years. Will we ever know how many people she scammed? Or how many people she killed?Tea of the Day: Empath's TeaTheme Music by Brad FrankSources:“Police Seek Missing Man.” The Californian, Wed, Dec 02, 1953, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/519103568/“Slaying Bares Eerie Story of Former Belle.” The San Francisco Examiner, Sun, Dec 06, 1953 Page 15, https://www.newspapers.com/image/458799149/“Woman Leads Police to Body.” The San Francisco Examine, Sun, Dec 06, 1953, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/458798390/“Cat Woman's Lie Detector Test Leads to Confession.”Oakland Tribune, Tue, Dec 08, 1953 Page 18, https://www.newspapers.com/image/277527378/“‘Cat Woman' In Not Guilty Plea.” The Napa Valley Register, Fri, Jan 22, 1954 Page 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/562977930/The Commercial Appeal, (Memphis, TN) Wed, Jan 27, 1954 Page 22, https://www.newspapers.com/image/769944904/“Salinas Murder Trial Scheduled for March 8th.” Santa Cruz Sentinel, Mon, Jan 25, 1954, Page 10, https://www.newspapers.com/image/58953469/“Salinas Murder Trial Jury Being Selected.” The Tribune, Tue, Mar 09, 1954, Page 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/807223440/“Woman Faces Trial on Murder Charge.” The Daily Advance, Wed, Mar 10, 1954 Page 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/1008806279/“34 Testify in Murder Hearing.” Stockton Evening and Sunday Record, Thu, Mar 11, 1954, Page 29, https://www.newspapers.com/image/844492819/“Jury Will View Scene Of Slaying.”Spokane Chronicle, Fri, Mar 12, 1954, Page 24, https://www.newspapers.com/image/564471054/“Mrs. Freeman Keeps Composure Waiting For Jury's Verdict.” The Californian, Fri, Mar 19, 1954 Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/519765849/“‘Cat Woman' Arguments.” The San Francisco Examiner, Wed, Mar 17, 1954 Page 17, https://www.newspapers.com/image/458179133/“Final Arguments Slated Today In ‘Cat Woman' Trial.” Sapulpa Daily Herald, Wed, Mar 17, 1954 Page 4, https://www.newspapers.com/image/661727645/“Woman Relates Shooting Story.” The Spokesman-Review, Tue, Mar 16, 1954 Page 2, https://www.newspapers.com/image/569541253/“‘Cat Woman' Defends Self In Murder Trial.” The Brownsville Herald, Mon, Mar 15, 1954 Page 3, https://www.newspapers.com/image/23844616/“Surprise Is Due for Cat Woman.” The Daily Oklahoman, Mon, Mar 15, 1954, Page 41, https://www.newspapers.com/image/449569064/“Grand Lake Death Suspects Charged.” The Daily Oklahoman, Sun, Mar 14, 1954, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/449566038/“Woman Is Charged In Veteran's Death.” The Billings Gazette, Sun, Mar 14, 1954 Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/411394440/“Body of Slain Man Is Found In Grand Lake.” Tulsa World, Wed, Aug 28, 1946, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/884624372/“Grand Lake Murder Ranks As Major Mystery in State.” Tulsa World. Sun, Nov 17, 1946 Page 7, https://www.newspapers.com/image/885244267/“Grand Lake Murder Victim Is Identified.” Sapulpa Herald, Sat, Mar 20, 1948, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/661703019/“‘Cat' Woman Is Given Life Term By Irate Judge.” The Modesto Bee, Tue, Mar 23, 1954, Page 8, https://www.newspapers.com/image/690104309/“‘Winnie' Sentenced To Life Term in Corona.” The Californian (Salinas, CA), Tue, Mar 23, 1954, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/519766383/“Murder Charge In Grand Lake Prove Dropped.” Miami News-Record, Fri, Apr 23, 1954, Page 1, https://www.newspapers.com/image/897935787/Ruth Reynolds, “Forgeries, Bad Checks Lead To Murder.” The Knoxville Journal, Sun, Feb 10, 1957 Page 51, https://www.newspapers.com/image/588087977/“Winnie Spriggs perhaps wasn't always so gentle.” Redlands Daily Facts, Thu, Oct 31, 1974 Page 4, https://www.newspapers.com/image/15124837/On This Day, “What Happened in 1953.”  https://www.onthisday.com/date/1953

We explore different ways to look at the restaurant business with Benson Wang the co-founder of Palm House Hospitality, which owns and operates the Palm House and the Dorian in SF, and the Flamingo Resort and Nick's Cove in the North Bay

Jim Seimas is a Giants fan living in San Jose, CA. He is also the sports editor for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. In addition to the Giants, Jim is a fan of most other bay area sports teams, which led him to be at Domingo Germán's perfect game in Oakland. We also hear about the time Jim nearly caught a José Canseco home run, and learn what it's like to run in the famous Milwaukee Sausage race. Find Jim Online: Twitter: @Jim_SeimasInstagram: @killerjimFind Baseball Bucket List Online:Twitter: @BaseballBucketFacebook: @BaseballBucketListInstagram: @Baseball.Bucket.ListWebsite: baseballbucketlist.comThis podcast is part of the Curved Brim Media Network:Twitter: @CurvedBrimWebsite: curvedbrimmedia.com

In 2008, 53 year old entrepreneur Mark Achilli was ready for his next adventure... but little did he know was that behind the scenes, someone couldn't stand him, and wanted him gone... but it had nothing to do with business,..Love Triangle Murders IG - https://www.instagram.com/lovetrianglemurders/News Sources 1. NBC Bay Area - https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/man-convicted-los-gatos-love-triangle-murder-says-he-is-innocent/33281/2. Case Text - https://casetext.com/case/people-v-garcia-1813 3. The Mercury News - https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/03/29/rare-los-gatos-killing-was-it-love-money-or-something-else/ 4. The Mercury News - https://www.mercurynews.com/2008/03/31/police-arrest-4-in-slaying-of-los-gatos-businessman-mark-achilli/ 5. Find a Grave - https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25618839/mark-anthony-achilli 6. Metro Silicon Valley - https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/metro/03.19.08/news-achilli-0812.html7. San Mateo Daily Journal - https://www.smdailyjournal.com/news/local/three-men-convicted-of-murder-in-los-gatos-killing/article_484781fb-4235-5292-b4b1-fbc81f84a3fd.html 8. CBS News - https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/girlfriend-of-slain-los-gatos-restaurateur-testifies/ 9. SF Gate - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Restaurant-owner-found-murdered-in-Los-Gatos-3291717.php 10. SF Gate - https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Club-owner-3-others-arrested-in-slaying-3289553.php 11.Santa Cruz Sentinel -  https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2008/03/17/los-gatos-friends-gather-to-mourn-slain-los-gatos-resident-mark-achilli/amp/12.East Bay Times -  https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2012/05/11/los-gatos-murder-for-hire-ex-fiancee-was-willing-to-lie-on-stand-according-to-document/13. Metro Silicon Valley - https://www.metrosiliconvalley.com/metro/03.19.08/news-achilli-0812.html 14. Court Listener - https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2783385/people-v-garcia-ca6/

In this episode we discuss the crimes of serial rapist Kenneth Bogard, who preyed on San Diego women in the early 1990s, and discuss the typologies of rapists.Follow this link to become a Teacher's Pet:https://www.buzzsprout.com/1662730/supportE-mail me at Pugmomof1@gmail.com; visit me on Instagram as True Crime University_Donate via PayPal to help me keep the show going: bullymom7@yahoo.com   References:   wikipedia, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior by Ronald Holmes and Stephen Holmes 2002, So Good, So Good, So Good: Confessions of the Piano Dude by Gregg Akkerman 2019, uspp.csbsju.edu, harfordmedlegal.typepad.com, Bureau of Justice Statistics, The Evil That Men Do by Stephen G Michaud and Roy Hazelwood 1998, girlsaskguys.com, North County Times, LA Times, cdcr.ca.gov, Santa Cruz Sentinel, institute.law.ucla.edu, Psychology TodayMy music is "Motivational Day" by AudioCoffee from Pixabay MusicSupport the show

Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Rachel Kippen about city and county “climate action plans.” A CAP lays out a community's roadmap for reducing greenhouse gas emissions over the coming decade, with input and review by community members and various “stakeholders.” How does a city or county go about developing a CAP, and is it an aspirational document or a plan for concrete action? And how effective are these plans in driving concrete emission reductions? Do CAPS matter? Rachel is a coastal environmental advocate, writer, nonprofit professional, and artist with over 15 years' experience in educational programming, communications, and advocacy. She writes “Our Ocean Backyard,” a twice monthly column in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and is advisor and consultant to a number of city and county municipal CAPs. We'll be talking about how CAPS are developed and implemented, giving listeners insights into how government works and the roles that citizens can play, especially in the face of the climate change challenge.

I talk with Ryan Masters, a writer, poet, musician, and bodysurfer from Santa Cruz, CA. Ryan is performing with both of his bands on a single bill at the Crepe Place on Friday, November 18th. Ryan spent a decade on staff at the Santa Cruz Sentinel and The Monterey County Weekly. He's been featured in publications such as The Iowa Review, Catamaran Literary Reader, Gargoyle Magazine, Tule Review, Portland Review, Unlikely Stories, The Surfer's Journal, Surfer, Scuba Diving, and many others. Above an Abyss: Two Novellas, his first collection of fiction, was published in 2018. Ryan's a longtime member of the Santa Cruz Body Surfing Association. He co-founded the OB Big Wave Bodysurfing Challenge and founded 2020's California Bodysurf Freakout. Finally, he's an EMT-Firefighter with the Zayante Fire Protection District. Support the showIntrospective interviews with artistic individuals - an ongoing audiovisual journal of Zen Perry. Behold a wall of periodically updated webpages!Official Website: https://www.zenperryproject.com/Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/breakingnorthInstagram: @https://www.instagram.com/zenperryproject/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/breakingnorthpodcastTwitter: @BreakingNorthTwitch: https://www.twitch.tv/breakingnorth_Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@zenperryproject160Email: info@zenperryproject.comThanks for listening - hope you enjoy!

Guitarist and composer DJ Sparr joins us to chat about the central role that the relationships built in school play in securing future work. He shares about his experience performing Kenneth Fuch's Electric Guitar Concerto with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra and the difference between performing his vs. others' works. We also talk about the typical day-to-day schedule of a performer-composer, and working this into family life. Electric guitarist and composer D. J. Sparr, who Gramophone recently hailed as “exemplary,” is one of America's preeminent composer-performers. He has caught the attention of critics with his eclectic style, described as “pop-Romantic…iridescent and wondrous” (The Mercury News) and “suits the boundary erasing spirit of today's new-music world” (The New York Times). The Los Angeles Times praises him as “an excellent soloist,” and the Santa Cruz Sentinel says that he “wowed an enthusiastic audience…Sparr's guitar sang in a near-human voice.” He was the electric guitar concerto soloist on the 2018 GRAMMY-Award winning, all-Kenneth Fuchs recording with JoAnn Falletta and the London Symphony Orchestra. In 2011, Sparr was named one of NPR listener's favorite 100 composers under the age 40. He has composed for and performed with renowned ensembles such as the Houston Grand Opera, Cabrillo Festival, New World Symphony, Washington National Opera, and Eighth Blackbird. His music has received awards from BMI, New Music USA, and the League of Composers/ISCM. Sparr is a faculty member at the famed Walden School's Creative Musicians Retreat in Dublin, New Hampshire. His works and guitar performances appear on Naxos, Innova Recordings, & Centaur Records. D. J. lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife Kimberly, son Harris, Nannette the hound dog, and Bundini the boxer. D. J. Sparr's music is published by Bill Holab Music. The transcript for this episode can be found here. For more information about DJ Sparr, please visit his website.

Episode #44: Psychotherapist Debra Sloss is joined by Judith Ain and Family Medicine Physician Assistant and Integrative Medicine Specialist Dr. Cynthia Quattro to discuss the tick-borne illness Lyme Disease and the mental health effects associated with this disease. Judith shares her personal story of deteriorating health until she was diagnosed with Lyme Disease and how she's learned to live with long-term symptoms. She talks about the impact that discouragement and fatigue have had on her life, how she continues to find ways to care for herself, manage her symptoms, and contribute to her community. Dr. Quattro offers information about the bacterium that causes Lyme Disease, how to access diagnosis and treatment from Lyme-Literate providers who are doctors with extensive experience with Lyme disease, and common co-infections. She also offers information about integrative treatment approaches. Broadcast: 7/3/22 Special thanks  to Jeanne Baldzikowski for audio production, Jennifer Young for underwriting outreach, Lisa Herendeen for research, Leslie Nielsen for In Your Voice Coordination and Izzy Weisz for marketing. And thanks to acoustic guitarist Adrian Legg for composing, performing, and donating the use of our theme music. LISTEN ANYTIME or subscribe to get new or past episodes delivered to your listening device: Apple Podcasts / Google Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher  / TuneIn JOIN EMAIL LIST Want to know our interesting topic each month? Simply  SIGN UP for our email list! FOLLOW US Facebook  @stateofmindksqd Instagram @state_of_mind.radio SUGGEST A TOPIC If you or someone you know has topic ideas for future shows or a story of mental health recovery to share, please email debra.stateofmind@ksqd.org SHARE YOUR STORY In Your Voice are short segments on the show where a listener gets to share their experience of the topic we are discussing. You can call us at 831- 824-4324 and leave a 1-3 minute message about: a mental health experience you've had, something that has contributed to your mental health recovery journey, or share a resource that has helped you. Alternatively, you can make a 1-3 minute audio recording right on your phone and email that file to debra.stateofmind@ksqd.org. Your voice may just become part of one of our future shows! SUPPORT OR UNDERWRITE If you like what you're hearing here on KSQD, also affectionately called K– Squid, you can become a “Philanthropod on the Squid Squad” by becoming a supporting member  and help keep KSQD surfing the air waves! Consider underwriting your business or agency and showing our listeners your support for State of Mind. RESOURCES Article About Preventive Measures – ‘Officials urge caution as tick season begins: Western black-legged ticks, common in winter, can transmit Lyme.' (online) Santa Cruz Sentinel, 22 December, 2019. Treatment Five Branches University – A clinic in Santa Cruz that provides Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and integrative healthcare  since 1984. Dr. Warren Klausner's website – local doctor who treats Lyme Disease.  Page also includes a link to a tool that can help people assess the likelihood that they might have Lyme and or other tick-borne diseases. Information IGeneX - Well respected lab that tests for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society – Resource to find Lyme-literate doctors Bay Area Lyme Foundation – Free tick testing www.bayarealyme.org Lyme Disease.org – Education and information, research & advocacy. Publisher of the Lyme Times. Global Lyme Alliance - Offering education to patients and professionals including information about Lyme Disease prevention. MyLymeData –  Patient data base. MyLymeData uses big data research tools that allow patients to quickly and privately pool their data to determine which treatments work best. Multiple Systemic Infectious Diseases Syndrome (MSIDS) QUESTIONAIRE – “MSIDS is a symptom complex of Lyme disease and multiple associated tick-borne co- infections that encompasses not only infections with Borrelia burgdorferi, the etiological agent of Lyme Disease, but also other bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, and fungal infections.” Psychiatric Lyme Disease Brochure – For Mental Health Professionals by ILADS.  What every mental health specialist should know about Lyme and tick-borne illness. The California Department of Public Health –  Some helpful information on prevention of tick-borne diseases Books Why Can't I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease  by Richard Horowitz Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence by Rick Hanson Film Under Your Skin –- Powerful documentary about Lyme Disease Mindfulness & Other Resources Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief – Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life with Jon Kabat-Zinn Kaiser Permanente –Guided Meditations  - Free guided meditations for various health conditions and wellness topics Good Medicine - How to Turn Pain into Compassion with Tonglen – A talk by Pema Chodron Capacitar Emergency Response Tool Kit Contact Guests Cynthia Quattro – A Physician Assistant and Doctor of Acupuncture, practices Integrative Health Medicine. She offers a nutrition based medical practice promoting a healthy lifestyle and gentle Japanese style acupuncture. Her practice focuses on a health care plan designed to promote wellness and prevent chronic diseases. She treats chronic diseases, including Lyme disease, metabolism and hormone imbalances, and cognitive changes. Phone: (831) 427 5311 Email: quattrodoc@gmail.com Website:drquattro.com

Kara Meyberg Guzman is CEO and co-founder of Santa Cruz Local in California. Before the Local, she was managing editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. She left her job at the Sentinel, which is owned by Alden Global Capital's Media News Group, in 2018, citing differences with the company's management. Kara connected with another former Sentinel reporter, Stephen Baxter, and the two of them hatched a plan for the Local. They focus on public policy issues that affect the whole county, like housing, development and public health. The Local is a private company, owned by the co-founders. The revenue model is a mix of memberships, business sponsorships, grants, and advertising. But the mission is simple. As the website puts it:  We strive to understand Santa Cruz in all of its complexity.  Dan has a Quick Take on a new report by LION Publishers that has some really positive findings about funding and sustainability for local news startups. Anyone who's thinking about starting a community news project ought to take a look at it. Ellen highlights the work of Katherine Massey, a columnist who was killed in the racist massacre at the Tops grocery store in Buffalo. Dan tips the hat to Anne Galloway, the founder and executive editor of VTDigger, who has announced that she's giving up the editor's position and is returning to the reporting ranks. She'll be an editor-at-large focusing on investigative reporting. Anne started Digger 13 years ago as a one-woman operation after she was laid off by the Rutland Herald. Today, Digger has 32 full-time employees and is regarded as one of the leading digital sources of regional news in the country.

On Episode 92, our co-host, Jasmine Nájera had the opportunity to talk with Joanne Sanchez and Ruby Vasquez from the Watsonville Campesino Appreciation Caravan for an update on the groups work. The volunteers have continued to visit farms each week, sometimes more to appreciate, support and connect farm workers with essential needs and donations. You can thank campesinos/farm workers for the fruits and vegetables you consume on a daily basis. During this pandemic, they work at risk of contracting Covid-19 for the the lowest wages in the country and under the most dangerous conditions to get these nutritious foods to your table.If you would like to support the work of the caravan and make a meaningful donation, please click here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/LaborEsencialJoanne Sanchez was the Watsonville Community reporter at the Santa Cruz Sentinel before moving on to focus her energy in the non-profit sector. She was the Public Relations manager at CASA of Santa Cruz County, serves on the Board of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, and is a founding member of the Watsonville Campesino Appreciation Caravan. Joanne was instrumental in the creation of the Digital NEST.Ruby Vasquez is the daughter of loving parents who worked the fields, safeguarded traditions, served others, and emphasized the importance of education and familia. These values have shaped who she is and how she serves her community. After earning a BA in American studies with an emphasis on Chicano studies and a bilingual teaching credential from UC-Santa Cruz, Ruby started working at Pajaro Valley Unified School District (PVUSD) in 1987 and eearned a master's in educational leadership at Mills College in Oakland. Ruby began dancing Mexican folk dance at the age of 6. Dance made her more aware of her cultural heritage and helped her develop a strong sense of pride and self confidence. She joined Esperanza del Valle (EDV), a Watsonville adult Mexican folk dance group in 1987 and now serve as assistant director. EDV promotes pride and an understanding of Mexican culture through traditional dance forms rooted in the merging of indigenous, European, and African heritages.In 2006 she founded Estrellas de Esperanza, a 40+ member dance group for students ranging in the ages of 5 to 18. Estrellas is committed to projecting a positive image of Mexican culture and ensuring that local students learn about their heritage.Ruby's involvement goes beyond the arts. As a parent education trainer for PVUSD, she works with colleagues to engage parents in their children's schooling. More recently, she helped to form the Watsonville Campesino Appreciation Caravan,  dedicated to agricultural campesinos (fieldworkers). At the onset of the pandemic, they were left out of the “essential workers” narrative. What began as a caravan of cars driving past local agricultural worksites with messages of gratitude in Spanish and Mixteco Bajo has transformed into Adopt a Cuadrilla, where the group distributes personal protective equipment and household supplies. This work and everything else that she does is offered with respect to our local community. #WatsonvilleCamepsinoAppreciationCaravan#LaborEsencial#FarmWorkers#Campesinos#EssentialWorkers#Heroes#ProtectFarmWorkers#healthcareuntold#healthcareuntoldpodcast#latinxhealth #chicanxhealth #indigenoushealth#gentecare    #mentalhealth#prevention#publichealth

Filled to the brim with scandal, murder, and historic characters ranging from Queen Victoria to Thomas Edison to Wyatt Earp, the history behind the Golden Gate Villa is nothing to scoff at.  In 1907 Santa Cruz was served a salacious historic scandal resulting in a horrific tragedy...leaving the house rumored to be haunted in its wake. Buy some merch and support the podcast! https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com/shop  Follow the Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors Submit your feedback or personal stories to contact@crimesandwitchdemeanors.com  Like The Podcast on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/crimesandwitchdemeanors  Visit the website: https://www.crimesandwitchdemeanors.com  Episode Transcript: Available below the sources in the show notes   SOURCES:   7 Dec 1907, Page 1—Santa Cruz Evening News at Newspapers.com. (n.d.). Newspapers.Com. Retrieved September 14, 2021, from http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=4203848&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjU1Mzc5MDMzLCJpYXQiOjE2MzE2MjAzMTAsImV4cCI6MTYzMTcwNjcxMH0.RvcF17nCqc3CPgInOgE9pYOuOODX01oAtIjpmA0sC0A     Clipped From Oroville Daily Register. (1907, November 18). Oroville Daily Register, 1.     Dormanen, S. (n.d.). The Golden Gate Villa. Santa Cruz Public Libraries. Retrieved September 10, 2021, from https://history.santacruzpl.org/omeka/files/original/dac12ae750afce922632b1d9a1f17930.pdf     Frank McLaughlin Kills Daughter and Himself at Santa Cruz: Bullet and Poison Used. (1907, November 17). The San Francisco Call, 17–18.     Golden Gate Villa. (2021). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Golden_Gate_Villa&oldid=1023021509     Metroactive Features | The Haunting of Santa Cruz. (n.d.). Retrieved September 12, 2021, from http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/10.29.03/haunting-0344.html     Poverty Pitiful at the End. (1907, November 19). Santa Cruz Sentinel, 2.     Sweet House Dreams: Golden Gate Villa, 1891 Queen Anne Victorian in Santa Cruz, California. (n.d.). Sweet House Dreams. Retrieved September 10, 2021, from http://sweethousedreams.blogspot.com/2018/06/golden-gate-villa-1891-queen-anne.html     Tom Brezsny. (2012, October 18). Golden Gate Villa—924 Third Street Santa Cruz California—Lavishly ornamented victorian. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jd72cnY_6E   Transcript: Hello, and welcome to Crimes and Witch Demeanors, the paranormal podcast where we go beyond the Wikipedia page and delve into historic sources to find the truth behind your favorite ghostly tales.  I'm your host and loveable librarian – Joshua Spellman.   Today we have a very exciting ghost story filled to the brim with scandal, murder, and historic characters ranging from Thomas Edison to Wyatt Earp the outlaw but even these prominent figure are obscured by today's ghostly tale.  Trust me, it's juicy, and we have all the gossipy progressive-era tabloids to prove it.  And boy, are some of these newspapers gorgeous, so make sure to check them out on the podcast Instagram.    Also thank you to everyone who purchased some merch from the shop!  You are true bibli-ahh-graphers!  If you want to support the podcast please go ahead and grab something for youself, crimesandwitchdemeanors.com link in the description!   So, anyway, you're here for the salacious historic scandal and the modern haunts that resulted from it.  So put on your sunnies, grab a parasol, we're headed to Santa Cruz and learning the legend behind the Golden Gate Villa and the tragedy that transpired there…       Considered one of the most historically significant homes in all of California, Golden Gate villa is perched atop Santa Cruz's historic Beach Hill neighborhood.  It's face is painted a buttery gold with a bright orchid trim; cheerful colors that belie it's dark and twisted past.   Major Frank McLaughlin was born sometime around 1840.  During his early career he served on the police force in Newark, New Jersey and developed a life-long friendship with esteemed inventor Thomas Edison.  He fought with Union forces briefly during the Civil War, but his stint was brief and it's unlikely this is where he earned his military title.  Instead, it is thought he achieved it from his later activity with the California state militia.   McLaughlin became an engineer on the Pacific Railroad, helping to lay tracks across the plains and the Wild West.  In the Wild West he earned quite the reputation, known as “one of the quickest men on the frontier” and was one of only a handful of men to ever challenge Wyatt Earp and live to tell the tale.   In 1877, McLaughlin returned to the East coast where he began to court a New Jersey widow by the name of ­­­­Margaret Loomis.  During this period Thomas Edison was developing the incandescent light bulb but ran into trouble finding a dependable source of platinum to use as filaments.  Without this precious metal, he would not be able to market his invention.   McLaughlin suggested that Edison source from the Feather River in California, as McLaughlin heard that there had been a find there.  Upon this suggestion, Edison commissioned McLaughlin to head out west and prospect for the mineral.  Before he did so, McLaughlin married Margaret Loomis and adopted her young daughter Agnes.   Like with most of his endeavors, McLaughlin went all-in.  It was said that he "never settled for the petite when the mammoth was available" and his exploits in Butte county were no exception.  He soon earned the title “King of Feather” for his domination of the river where his sights quickly turned from platinum to gold.  He soon began to make a fortune, but he was smart never to invest his own money – instead he organized companies he would manage giving himself a hefty salary.   During this time McLaughlin commissioned San Francisco architect Thomas J. Welsh to design a home for Margaret and Agnes to escape the brutal summer heat.  McLaughlin instructed Welsh to "spare no expense in making Golden Gate Villa the showplace of Santa Cruz” – and that he did.  The mansion was named the after Golden Gate Mining Company, which managed the operations back in Feather, and provided all the funds for his lavish home.  Naturally, being friends with Thomas Edison, the home was outfitted with the newest luxury available – electricity.   The home was magnificent and the McLaughlin's hosted many events including costume parties, magic shows, musicals, fireworks displays, and the first moving picture ever shown in Santa Cruz.  Agnes became a figure of note in the local community and was pronounced as “indescribably pretty”, a “petite beauty with rose leaf complexion”, and as the “ideal American girl” by a number of publications.  Perhaps it's no wonder the focal piece of the Golden Gate Villa is a gigantic stained glass portrait of a young woman reaching to pick an apple blossomed branch.  Rumour has it that McLaughlin cut some of Agnes' hair to be mixed in with the color of the glass.  Despite Agnes's earthly beauty and love of parties and extravagance, she regularly attended mass with her dog…who she often sprayed with expensive cologne.  Agnes had never married, though she almost did once.  She was engaged to a man named Sam Rucker, and while the invitations to the ceremony were sent nothing ever came of it.    While the McLaughlin women lived in luxury in Santa Cruz, McLaughlin was busy with various endeavors: From olive orchards to orange groves, to a 9-mile tunnel at Big Bend, a 30-mile flume for the hydraulic mine, and funding development in the area, McLaughlin was quickly amassing a fortune.  However, his biggest endeavor was to divert the water of the Feather so that gold could be mined from the river bed.   Receiving letters of recommendation from Thomas Edison, the governor, and two California state senators, McLaughlin travelled to London to try and secure investors.  He was charming, as usual, and made such an impression that the newspapers declared that “Not since Benjamin Franklin had an American made such an impression on English society”  McLaughlin seemed to have luck in all of his projects and this trip was no different – due to a misunderstanding he came home with $12 million in funds…a great deal more than he planned or ever dare thought to get.   However, the project itself would not see the same luck.  The project took four years to complete the end resulting in a 7,000 foot long canal and a retaining wall twelve feet wide and twenty feet high.  It became one of the greatest mining feats of the era and Thomas Edison, McLaughlin's chum, provided the first electric lights ever to be used on a construction site as the workers labored all hours of the day.   When the water was diverted and the riverbed dry, McLaughlin was the first to take his shovel to the dirt.  While he struck gold in London, much like the river, this project would soon run dry.  McLaughlin was sure that he would make a 100 million return on the initial 12 million invested but the project ended in catastrophe.  Instead of hitting gold, he hit bankruptcy.  All they found were small gold nuggets, old rusty picks, and buckets.   It turns out that McLaughlin was 50 years too late. Half a century earlier, 49ers diverted the same river with a simple wooden flume, exhausting all the gold in the area and walking away with a fortune.  The locals of the area knew this, and knew that McLaughlin's project was doomed from the start but decided to keep it a secret to watch the man go down in flames.   Like his previous project, McLaughlin declined to invest any of his own money, and upon learning this, the English investors were furious.  They found out that McLaughlin had lost no money at all, and was paying himself a generous salary.  Queen Victoria herself launched an investigation and sent Scotland Yard to investigate. However, when the agent arrived, he was scared off by McLaughlin who wasn't afraid to wave his pistol about…he did survive an encounter with Wyatt Earp, a timid Englishman was nothing to him.   McLaughlin soon got into politics, earning quite the reputation as a staunch frontiersman and capitalist though he never held office he became chair of California's Republican State Central Committee during the 1896 presidential campaign and was credited with carrying the whole state for McKinley.  In fact, McLaughlin was offered a seat in McKinley's cabinet though he declined, just as he declined to run for governor despite the pleas of the people.   Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin died in on November 16, 1905, turning Frank into a widower and leaving her daughter Agnes behind.  On that same date in 1907, Agnes attended an early mass in memory of her mother.  After returning home, Agnes retired to her bedroom in the tower to take a nap.  While Agnes slept someone entered her room unnoticed, pressed a 44 caliber pistol to her temple, and fired.   Knowing that his step-daughter was sleeping, Major Frank McLaughlin set their maid out on an errand before going upstairs and murdering his beloved step-daughter.  Shortly after the deed was done, McLaughlin called his banker William Jeter and urged him to come to the home immediately.  Jeter was preoccupied and could not come but McLaughlin insisted shouting "You must come at once. I have just killed my Bob (his pet name for Agnes) and I am going to kill myself.”   And he did.  He ingest a fatal dose of potassium cyanide, dying just as his friend arrived.  To everyone's shock…Agnes had survived…at least for the time being.  While she survived the initial wound at the hands of the Major, she succumbed to her injuries at 6:30 that evening.   Newspapers published salacious headlines for weeks that ran alongside the obituary that McLaughlin had penned himself.  The tragedy was naturally a hit with the media being full of scandal and intrigue as it was.  McLaughlin for the most part was an incredibly popular and well-liked man and the thought of this crime was nearly inconceivable.  Why…how on earth could he do such a thing?   You see, this was not just a random act of violence or a crime of passion.  It was not executed on a whim.  No, the Major had been meticulously planning the did for months which he outlined in the documents he left to Jeter including farewell letters to friends and family, instructions, and an explanation for his crime.   It turns out that McLaughlin was beginning to suffer financially, though he kept it hidden from everyone.  Major McLaughlin feared falling into poverty and being unable to provide for his step-daughter that he loved so dearly.  He wrote in his letter “"To leave my darling child helpless and penniless would be unnatural and so I take her with me to our loved one. She is the very last one who could face this world alone.”   However, at the inquest it was revealed that he could have liquidated his estate and had a large surplus to spare – hardly leaving him or Agnes impoverished.  Some supposed he was simply embarrassed by his failure at Feather River, his reputation shattered by the incident.  However, no rationalization could really explain why he did what he did.   Though whispers around Santa Cruz gave wind to a new theory.  Many thought it strange that after Mrs. McLaughlin's death that Agnes continued to live with the Major since she was not of blood relation to him.  The fact that she had remained unmarried well into her thirties also didn't quite sit right with the local community.  In fact, they could recall that many years prior announcements of Agnes' marriage to Sam Rucker were sent out but that the wedding was cancelled at the last moment…presumably because the Major couldn't bear to see her married to another man.   Then, a man by the name of Christian R. Wolters, a prosperous merchant in the city, stepped forward claiming that the was secretly engaged to Agnes at the time of her murder…making it hard to believe that Major Frank McLaughlin couldn't stand to see his step-daughter fall into poverty when she would be well-provided for by her would-be husband.   Regardless of his motivations, whether the Major was truly in love with his step-daughter or whether he just could not stand the thought of aging alone in the villa without a family he wrote in his letter “I love her so and so I take her with me”  In a letter to the family doctor, F.E. Morgan, McLaughlin wrote  “Please see that we are not cut up, at least that my pure sweet child is not” and on the outside of the envelope he had written “Dear Doc. Please do me one last favor and chloroform our old cat”   And so, the mystery remains.  However, inside the confines of the shining Golden Gate Villa the spirit of the McLaughlin's remain…if only they could divulge their secrets the living…       I got a lot of my information from an article in the November 17, 1907 issue of the San Francisco Daily call titled “Frank McLaughlin Kills Daughter and Himself at Santa Cruz” which had an interesting juxtaposition with another article “Suicide Ends Happy Love Affair of Girl – takes poison when father refuses to consent to wedding.”  Just such similar situations but different ends – albeit both tragic ones.   But the majority of my information, or the source I followed to historic ones was by a life-saver of a librarian or historian from the Santa Cruz Public Libraries local history collection by the name of Susan Dormanen.  There wasn't very much online at all historically speaking and Susan wrote a great piece, and like any great librarian, had an endless supply of footnotes for me to peruse leading me to the primary sources.   I found it interesting that reports of McLaughlin fighting Wyatt Earp were published awhile after his death, no doubt the papers were still riding the coattails of the tragedy.  On the 19 of November two interesting stories came out, and while they came out later it does make sense that they would – they wouldn't have had much reason to publish these prior but I think it gives an interesting look into the Major's personality…at least towards those that weren't his wife or Agnes.  ­­1 Always a Foe of Earp Major McLaughlin was unsparing in his denunciations of the rascality of Wyatt Earp, and it was said up and down Market St. that Earp had vowed to shoot McLaughlin on sight... When the two encountered one another at Johnny Farley's Peerless saloon, Earp and the little Major had a staring match for a thrilling instant in which the petulant pop of the pistol was expected by all. But the Arizona gun man saw that he could not intimidate through many a gun play on the western frontier, and so he said with a tone smacking something of an apology: 'I know, Major McLaughlin, that you would not have made such remarks unless you believed them to be true,' and left the saloon while the man he was supposed to kill on sight took his time over his drink, uttered a few jocular remarks for the benefit of the bystanders, and went his own way with a nerve seemingly shaken not at all.[5]   No Fear of a "Bad Gun" There was never any doubt of his physical courage or his willingness to accept a challenge from any bad gun man. When he was managing the campaign of D.M. Burns for the United States Senate there were many threats that he would be killed, and one day in the corridor of the Golden Eagle Hotel in Sacramento he met Major Goucher of San Diego, who was supposed to have a particular grudge against him. Major McLaughlin calmly spat in Major Goucher's face and pushed him with his left hand. Goucher made no effort to resent the insult and afterwards said: "I was too wise to be taken in by that old frontier trick. He spat in my pistol eye, and pushed me off with his left hand, so that he was free to draw on me with his right."

In Plumas County, thousands of residents have been ordered from their homes as the Dixie Fire continues to spread. Officials sent out notice Tuesday afternoon as high winds have made it tougher for firefighters trying to contain the fire's spread. Reporter: Dan Brekke, KQED We've heard a lot about controlled burning recently –- carefully lit intentional fires that have benefits for wildfire risk and the environment. But lighting them –- like fighting fires –- takes a lot of work. Guest: Hannah Hagemann, Reporter with the Santa Cruz Sentinel 

In 2017 an AR-15 military-style assault rifle was stolen from the Santa Cruz Police Department and remains missing. In this hour-long interview, Santa Cruz Police Lieutenant Arnold Vasquez discusses the three-week investigation he led into the AR-15 theft. Lt. Vasquez explains that he was unable to discover when or where the gun was stolen. The AR-15 rifle was discovered missing in May, 2017 and was last seen three months before that, in February, 2017 he said.    The SCPD AR-15 theft was not made public and some current Santa Cruz City Councilmembers, and the police auditor for the city, learned of the missing gun from me.     My three-part series on the SCPD stolen AR-15 was published in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and is available online:  https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/02/11/ar-15-stolen-from-santa-cruz-police-department-four-years-ago-still-missing/amp/    The AR-15 was originally manufactured by ArmaLite and is now produced by Colt. The AR-15 is the civilian/police version of the U.S. military’s M-16 rifle that was the standard issue weapon for U.S. soldiers during the catastrophic war on Vietnam. In addition to the AR-15 some of the other military-style gear that the Santa Cruz Police Department has includes an armored personnel carrier, flashbang grenades, grenade launchers and sniper rifles.      This interview was originally broadcast on Feb. 25, 2021 on “Transformation Highway” on KZSC. 88.1 FM, kzsc.org. 

On the morning of Halloween, 1966, a groundskeeper at Riverside City College discovered the body of a young woman, sprawled face-down on a gravel drive-way between two campus buildings. The victim was Cheri Jo Bates, an 18-year-old freshman who had spent the previous evening studying at the campus library. Her killer had stabbed her several times in the back and chest; slit her throat; and disappeared into the night. The search for Cheri Jo Bates’s killer stalled until 1970, when her murder was linked to a series of killings committed in the San Francisco Bay Area by a man who proclaimed himself “the Zodiac.” For more than 50 years, the elusive Zodiac has been pursued by state and federal law enforcement agencies, journalists, and even amateur sleuths. He has been the subject of best-selling books and Hollywood films. Yet, the Zodiac has never been apprehended, and the murders he took credit for remain unsolved. The Zodiac has never been definitively linked to Cheri Jo Bates’s murder, but to this day, many remain convinced that she was the Zodiac’s first victim. Others believe that Cheri Jo’s killer was someone she knew. His identity remains unknown, and Cheri Jo Bates’s murder remains unsolved. The investigation into the murder of Cheri Jo Bates remains active. If you have any information that could aid investigators in their search for Cheri Jo’s killer, please contact the Riverside Police Department.RPD (Non-Emergency): 951-354-2007 RPD (General Information): 951-826-5700Anonymous We Tip Hotline: 800-472-7766Send us an email at feedback@ccspod.com! And follow us on Twitter, @theccspod!Our recommendations for this episode:-the book Booze and Vinyl https://amzn.to/2Nh2uNl -The Twitter account @ratemyskyperoom Sources:-AP, “Coed Slain on California Campus.” Salt Lake Tribune, 1 November 1966. https://bit.ly/3sdQLOh -AP, “Is Riverside Killing Connected to Zodiac?” Santa Cruz Sentinel, 17 November 1970. https://bit.ly/3qEJuqn -Chuck Buck, “High-School Filmmaking with a Mystery Ending.” RACmonitor, 7 May 2020. https://bit.ly/3uiwb13 -Robert Graysmith, Zodiac. Berkley, 1986. -Suzanne Hurt, “After 50 years, Zodiac hunters, police still seeking Cheri Jo Bates’ killer.” Press Enterprise, 6 November 2016. https://bit.ly/3sdjEtP -Henry Mendoza, “Zodiac Linked to Woman’s Murder.” San Bernardino Sun, 17 March 1971. https://bit.ly/3pAaR3D -Valerie Osier, “Coed’s 1966 slaying still a mystery.” Press Enterprise, 30 November 2013. https://bit.ly/3pEmpmg -UPI, “Riverside Police Continue Investigation.” Redlands Daily Facts, 2 November 1966. https://bit.ly/37v06t2 -A little history of the town of Riverside https://bit.ly/3bp1H4S -“Coed Stabbed to Death on Riverside College Campus.” Los Angeles Times, 1 November 1966. https://bit.ly/3qEwzVv - “Findings Point to White Male as Coed Slayer.” San Bernardino Sun, 9 November 1966. https://bit.ly/3kfOwr2 -Photos of the typed “Confession” letter from 1966, the handwritten notes from 1967, and other official documents and photos related to the case https://bit.ly/3budsal -“Riverside Coed Slain on Campus.” San Bernardino County Sun, 1 November 1966. https://bit.ly/3k6xbkd -The Cheri Jo Bates Memorial Endowed Scholarship at RCC https://bit.ly/2Zy4ao7 -The newspaper write-up about Ross Sullivan and Chuck Buck’s student film https://bit.ly/37yfxk2 -History Channel series from 2017, “The Hunt for the Zodiac Killer.” Available on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3uiHkyU -Tenderfoot TV and HowStuffWorks, “Monster: The Zodiac Killer.” https://bit.ly/3aBIptF

Sustainability Now! Show #27, September 6, 2020, Accessory Dwelling Units in Our Backyards: Host Ronnie Lipschutz and his guest, Santa Cruz architect Mark Primack, talk about how we might address the California housing crisis through construction of accessory dwelling units. Primack has lived and worked in Santa Cruz since the late 1970s, served on the City Council, written Divisible Cities: Acting Local in a Transient World and writes a regular column on local matters for The Santa Cruz Sentinel (for example, here and here). Additional resources on ADUs are available at SSRF's "ADU Resources" page.

Episode Links and Notes: A Bashing Success https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cc7hjTGFNE&feature=emb_title Bobby Pickett, "Monster Mash" James Brown, "Blind Man Can See It" from In the Jungle Groove James Newton Howard, "Pennant Fever" from the Major League soundtrack Steve Wilstein, "Bash, it's a smash" from the Santa Cruz Sentinel, 16 October 1988 https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2161780/santa-cruz-sentinel/ Matthew Dessem, "The Lonely Island's New Visual Album Isn't the First Time Someone Wrote a Novelty Song About Mark McGwire and Jose Canseco" from Slate, 27 May 2019 https://slate.com/culture/2019/05/unauthorized-bash-brothers-experience-lonely-island-monster-bash.html *** Please contact us at any of these locations: Website: www.thecdpodcast.com Email: thecluttereddeskpodcast@gmail.com Twitter: @TheCDPodcast  Facebook: www.facebook.com/thecdpodcast Andrew is on Twitter @AndrewPatrickH1 (Twitter non grata) Colin is on Twitter @ColinAshleyCox  *** We would like to thank Test Dream for supplying The Cluttered Desk Podcast's theme music. You can find Test Dream at any of these locations: Website: testdream.bandcamp.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/testdream Twitter: @testdream *** Our entire catalogue is available through iTunes, Stitcher, and Google Play.

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Sustainability Now #23, July 12, 2020, with Len Beyea, addresses sustainable community planning in Santa Cruz and cities in general. Len is a semi-retired energy engineer and commissioning agent, former land-use planner, musician, Interfaith Minister, gardener, dancer, political and cultural commentator. He is host of the Wednesday broadcast of Talk of the Bay on KSQD and shares hosting of Border-Free Radio, which airs just before this time slot. Len writes that “The modern city has grown up during the era of the automobile, resulting in sprawling land use, paving over of up to 60% of urban space, loss of productive farm and range lands, forests, and wetlands, destruction of riparian habitats, and increased runoff and erosion; while within the urban spaces offering a lack of walkable neighborhoods and real centers of social and civic engagements, financially unsustainable infrastructure, traffic jams, and almost total dependence on private motorized transportation for shopping, school, work and basic services.” He addresses the current state of Santa Cruz County's urbanized spaces and their unsustainable characteristics, principles of urban design for walkable neighborhoods and “new urbanism” that can bring our cities back into balance, visualization of a transition to more sustainable and inviting spaces for various local neighborhoods where we live, work, and engage socially, and exploration of the concrete and specific changes that can help get us there. You can read about attempts during the 1960s to turn Santa Cruz into an industrial city in “The plan to make Santa Cruz into Detroit and Los Angeles,” by Ross Eric Gibson in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Another interesting publication about sustainable planning is “Civic Commons: Reimagining Our Cities' Public Assets,” 2016.

In the last chapter of "Till Death Do Us Part" a woman meets and quickly marries a man. He promises her a new life, but soon after the wedding she goes missing. It will take years of investigative and legal work to bring her killer to justice. Sources: "Till Death Do Us Part: True Stories of Newlywed Murder Cases" by JJ Slate, RJ Parker Publishing, 2015. "Father's Quest for Justice Ends" by Tom Long for The Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 13, 1989. People v. Crew, Supreme Court of California, August 25, 2003. Links: Let's Taco 'Bout True Crime - https://www.truecrimepodcast.com/lets-taco-bout-true-crime Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime

In the last chapter of "Till Death Do Us Part" a woman meets and quickly marries a man. He promises her a new life, but soon after the wedding she goes missing.  It will take years of investigative and legal work to bring her killer to justice.  Sources:  "Till Death Do Us Part: True Stories of Newlywed Murder Cases" by JJ Slate, RJ Parker Publishing, 2015.  "Father's Quest for Justice Ends" by Tom Long for The Santa Cruz Sentinel, August 13, 1989.  People v. Crew, Supreme Court of California, August 25, 2003.  Sponsor: Hask Hair Care - For a chance to win a $100 prize pack go to www.haskbeauty.com/once. Links: Let's Taco 'Bout True Crime - https://www.truecrimepodcast.com/lets-taco-bout-true-crime Patreon - www.patreon.com/onceuponacrime   

It's hard to think about photography in Santa Cruz without discovering Shmuel Thaler, the leading photojournalist at the Santa Cruz Sentinel. He's been documenting the community since the late 1980s: from earthquakes and fires, to surfers and dancers—the fabric and heart of the town.

Sustainability Now! April 19, 2020, By the Beautiful Sea, with Rachel Kippen, Executive Director of O'Neill Sea Odyssey and a columnist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. Rachel was previously Director of Programs at Save Our Shores. She has also worked as a marine science educator, a kayak guide and a whale tour naturalist. She holds two degrees in Environmental Studies. She grew up on two islands, one in the Puget Sound and the other in Hawai'i, so she spent her youth learning about the ocean by snorkeling, surfing, and paddling. O'Neill Sea Odyssey is a Monterey Bay-based introduction to marine science for students in grades 4-6 aboard the 65-foot O'Neill Catamaran.

In this episode, we learn about all the ways kids are thinking about business, from opening lemonade stands to starting their own companies. We speak with a star Girl Scout cookie seller about how she's showing off a new flavor this year, and we hear from kids about what kinds of businesses they want to open. For more information:-There's a ton of interesting detail about cookies on the Girl Scouts of America website.-Tom Foster of Inc. Magazine has written a lot about how kids are learning about entrepreneurship. Here's a list of programs that you might find interesting. -You can read more about bird discoveries in Indonesia in Science and in Science News. -The Santa Cruz Sentinel has more on electric fire trucks.-The Palm Beach Post offers a scoop on the parrot whose strange impressions led the police to its owner's house. Credits: -Our theme song is Vacation by Joakim Karud. -Transition music is Funkorama and Fuzzball Parade by Kevin MacLeod. License: CC BY.

Lucille Miller was a California housewife who, in 1964, was accused of murdering her dentist husband in a fiery accident on a lonely road through a lemon grove. The ensuing case is one of the most muddled and morally-unclear I have ever come across. Part of the Straight Up Strange Network: https://www.straightupstrange.com/ My Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/forgdark/ Opening music from https://filmmusic.io. "Giant Wyrm" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) "Dark Child" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com). License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Closing music by Soma. SOURCES “Another death factor in murder trial.” Santa Rosa Press-Democrat, December 7, 1964. “Attorney Hayton tells trial of affair with Mrs. Miller.” Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1965. “Attorney to ask federal hearing in Miller case.” Redlands Daily Facts, December 10, 1964. “Attorneys keep vigil in auto fire death case.” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 1964. “Civil rights of arrested woman said violated.” Eureka Humboldt Standard, December 16, 1964. “Coroner declares Dr. Miller murdered.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 16, 1964. “Cremation in a car; murder quiz of wife.” San Francisco Examiner, October 11, 1964. “Decision due today on dentist's auto death.” Los Angeles Times, October 13, 1964. “Defense presses for Mrs. Miller's release.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 23, 1964. “Dentist dies in auto blaze; wife arrested.” Los Angeles Times, October 9, 1964. “Dentist dies in flaming car, wife held.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 9, 1964. “Dentist's wife indicted after jury hearing.” Santa Cruz Sentinel, October 21, 1964. “Dentist's wife indicted for car fire death.” Los Angeles Times, October 21, 1964. “Exam indicates suspect pregnant.” Santa Maria Times, December 21, 1964. “Hearing for wife held for murder.” Eureka Humboldt Standard, October 14, 1964. “Miller trial loses juror; 'discharged.'” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. “Motel romance loveless on his part, Hayton says.” Los Angeles Times, February 9, 1965. “Mother of three faces indictment.” Ukiah Daiy Journal, October 20, 1964. “Mother to go on trial.” Roseville Press-Tribune, November 5, 1964. “Mrs. Miller arraigned in dentist's car death.” Los Angeles Times, October 22, 1964. “Mrs. Miller loses another freedom bid.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 17, 1964. “Mrs. Miller to enter plea on Friday.” Redlands Daily Facts, October 28, 1964. “Mrs. Miller's defense may seek trial delay.” Los Angeles Times, November 30, 1964. “Murder charges filed against Mrs. Miller.” Redlands Daily Facts, October 13, 1964. “New trial scheduled.” Hanford Sentinel, December 9, 1964. “New trial set Jan. 11 in Miller murder case.” Redlands Daily Facts, December 8, 1964. Hartsfield, Jack. “Attorneys clash during Miller trial arguments.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. ─. “Debbie Miller, friends take witness stand.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 10, 1965. ─. “Doctor Miller's funeral first quiet in case.” San Bernardino County Sun, October 16, 1964. ─. “Foley tears into Turner and Mr. Hayton.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. ─. “Lucille Miller may gain freedom.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 6, 1972. ─. “Lucille Miller's 5-year fight for freedom.” Ontario Daily Report, October 18, 1970. ─. “Miller murder trial goes to jury today.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 2, 1965. ─. “Mrs. Miller's murder trial opens tomorrow.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 1, 1964. ─. “Turner claims defense using double talk.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 2, 1965. ─. “Turner says Mrs. Miller's story baloney.” San Bernardino County Sun, February 26, 1965. ─. “Uproar sweeps court as verdict announced.” San Bernardino County Sun, March 6, 1965. ─. “Was wife of S.B. attorney murdered?” San Bernardino County Sun, December 5, 1964. Didion, Joan. “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream.” The Literature of Reality (Gay Talese & Barbara Lounsberry, eds.). New York: Harper Collins, 1995. Hertel, Howard. “Mrs. Miller takes witness stand to deny killing mate.” Los Angeles Times, February 17, 1965. Hertel, Howard and Henry Sutherland. “Mrs. Miller had two love affairs, prosecutor implies.” Los Angeles Times, February 11, 1965. ─. “Mrs. Miller's fate rests with jury.” Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1965. Miller, Debra J. “A Mother's Crime.” https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-apr-02-tm-dreams14-story.html Murphy, Mike. “Supreme Court to review Lucille Miller's S.B. trial.” San Bernardino County Sun, December 5, 1967. "People v. Miller (1966).” https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2d/245/112.html Yetzer, Carl. “Policewoman 'plant' may get new trial for Lucille Miller.” San Bernardino County Sun, June 8, 1969.

Local guitar slinger and songwriter Scott Cooper sits in with guest-host Michael Gaither on "Neighborhood Night". Michael and Scott reminisce about their early days when they both wrote for the Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper, then settle in to talk shop. Scott chats about how he writes songs about "places" and "characters," and plays "Warren Zevon" (a tribute to the great songwriter, "Tulsa Bound," and a new one, "Call My Name".

WARNING: THIS PODCAST ADDRESSES SENSITIVE TOPICS INCLUDING SUICIDE. Acclaimed author Max Mobley writes from his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He is a former columnist for the pioneering music magazine Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock." He has written extensively for the music industry, including magazine features, reviews, interviews, and books on music technology. Max also penned the popular Rush biography, Rush FAQ―All That's Left To Know About The World's Greatest Canadian Prog Rock Power Trio. Max contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel series Rock Of Ages, honoring the 50th anniversary of the birth of rock and roll. He also wrote the limited series "The Cheif and I" for the Tracy Press. Max’s highly anticipated debut novel, Howard & Debbie, published by Rare Bird Books, will be available now. More at maxmobley.com. William Garner was a biophysicist for 15 years (Marine Biology and Neurobiology), then at age 35 joined the US Army as an Airborne Ranger with the 1st Ranger Battalion. He was also an overseas security specialist, commercial photographer, military aviation photographer, and New York Times bestselling ghostwriter and editor of many books. His latest project is 'SUICIDE TANGO: My Year Killin’ It With A Shrink.'

Surf and skateboard podcast host Neil Pearlberg joins us today in this special 4th of July episode dubbed as “The Worst Episode Ever!” This is a funny and silly conversation, just like two buddies hanging out over drinks⁠. We cannot guarantee that you’d find inspiration or motivation in this episode, but we're sure, you’d be laughing your brains off listening to this witty exchange of conversation! Off The Lip Radio Show Neil Pearlberg hosts the Off The Lip Radio Show (OTL)⁠— a popular radio show and podcast dedicated to surfing, skateboarding and laid back California lifestyle in Santa Cruz. The show is co-hosted by Terry Campion (TC), a skate-shop owner. The show has a wide array of guests and live-music, peppered with the unique humor of Neil and TC.  “Everybody takes life seriously. The show has to be fun! There’s so much seriousness in today’s world.” - Neil Pearlberg After Neil’s stint as a freelance writer for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, he proposed to KSCO management a program that would cater to the younger generation, since the station’s demographic involved very old listeners. They were off into a rought start, as the KSCO management deemed him as an “non-reliable, non-responsible-kind-person” but he proved them wrong. Lochhead’s Guesting at OTL Rich Novak, the founder of innovative skateboard company NHS Fun Factory, introduced Neil to Chris and they’ve been buddies ever since. Chris actually guested in OTL Episode #321 where he complained that he was called Chris Lochhard for the whole 50 minutes of the show.  It was a hilarious exchange of conversation as Chris said this is the first time he met people who don’t give AF about who he was. He also joked about how it was fun to be “disrespected” at times and be regarded based on your hobbies.  “You pick up absolutely no new subscribers cause everybody was googling Lockhard! I was furious! But we went out for dinner and had a great time!” - Christopher Lochhead on his guesting at OTL More About The Worst Episode Ever Neil shares more about the guests, the music and topics they cover on OTL. He said the show appealed to the young and young at heart because of their unconventional format and their IDGAF attitude. “We used to be prepared. We sit down beforehand and do notes. TC and I start on a nice piece and have booklets, then it went to brown paper bags, then it went to napkins. Now we just drink.” - Neil Pearlberg on the preparing for every episode of OTL He further shared about his fashion sense⁠—the laidback California lifestyle attire⁠—but is now called hobo chic. They teased back and forth about Neil’s current relationship, as his girlfriend, Angela was also present during the interview. To hear more about Neil Pearlberg and why this episode might be the “Worst Episode” ever, download and listen to the episode. BIO: Since September 2009, Neil Pearlberg has written over 200 articles covering the sport of surfing, as well as skateboarding, and soccer, for the Bay Area News Group, & Santa Cruz Waves.  He is also the host of the “Off the Lip Radio Show”, & Hour Local Radio Show aired on Santa Cruz Radio Show KSCO AM 1080, FM 104.1, ksco.com and streamed on Santa Cruz Waves Facebook Page. Neil has also had published articles in Adventure Sports Journal, National Geographic, Stand Up Paddle Board Magazine. Links: Off The Lip Radio Instagram Twitter Linkedin - Neil Pearlberg We hope you enjoyed Neil Pearlberg on this episode of Follow Your Different™! Christopher loves hearing from his listeners. Feel free to email him, connect on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and subscribe on iTunes!

Juanita Spinelli ran a gang of embarrassingly awful Northern Californian crooks who could barely rob enough gas stations to stay afloat. And yet three years after forming her gang, she was walking toward the gas chamber, while citizens across the country clamored that it wasn’t right to execute a woman. (Become a Patreon supporter for rewards and bonus content! And here’s the slideshow of California’s death row inmates that I mention at the end of the episode…) Sources: All Juanita Spinelli coverage from The San Francisco Examiner, 1940-1941“Murder Ring in State Broken,” Santa Maria Times, 16 April 1940“Robbery-Gang Killing Explained,” The Los Angeles Times, 17 April 1940“Woman Seized as Murder Ring Head,” Leader-Telegram, 17 April 1940“Gang is Indicted in Sacramento For Slaying of Youth,” Reno Gazette-Journal, 23 April 1940“Aided Slayers to Save Child,” Muncie Evening Press, 25 May 1940“'Duchess’ Gang Aid Admits Throwing Victim Into River,” Oakland Tribune, 27 May 1940“A Woman Condemned to Die,” Lincoln News Messenger, 13 Feb 1941“‘The Duchess’ to Die for Gang Slaying,” The Press Democrat, 19 June 1941“Murderess Snatched from Death’s Shadow,” The Press Democrat, 20 June 1941“Death Awaits Mrs. Spinelli,” The Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov 1941“‘The Duchess’ Dies in Gas Chamber,” The Roseville Press, 21 Nov 1941“Many Pleas Made For Duchess’ Life,” Oakland Tribune, 21 Nov 1941“‘Duchess’ Quiet in Execution,” Santa Cruz Evening News, 21 Nov 1941“Aides to ‘Duchess’ Executed; Laugh and Pray at Finish,” The Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov 1941“These Interesting People,” Oakland Tribune, 4 Nov 1946 "Big Names from the Big House,” Santa Cruz Sentinel, 17 Dec 2000“The Death of a Duchess,” Daily News, 29 June 2003“Timeline: Capital Punishment in California,” Southern California Public Radio“California Death Penalty Suspended; 737 Inmates Get Stay of Execution,” New York Times, 12 March 2019“The most notorious inmates on California's death row,” SF Gate, 13 March 2019“These are the 737 inmates on California's death row,” LA Times, 13 March 2019 Music: “Guilty” by Richard A. Whiting, Harry Akst, and Gus Kahn, sung by Anna Telfer.“Me and the Blues,” sung by Mildred Bailey, from archive.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acclaimed author Max Mobley writes from his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He is a former columnist for the pioneering music magazine Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock." He has written extensively for the music industry, including magazine features, reviews, interviews, and books on music technology. Max also penned the popular Rush biography, Rush FAQ―All That's Left To Know About The World's Greatest Canadian Prog Rock Power Trio. Max contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel series Rock Of Ages, honoring the 50th anniversary of the birth of rock and roll. He also wrote the limited series "The Cheif and I" for the Tracy Press. Max’s highly anticipated debut novel, Howard & Debbie, published by Rare Bird Books, will be available now. More at maxmobley.com. Peter Leonard, the son of legendary crime novelist, Elmore Leonard, continues the life of his fathers character Raylan Givens in 'Raylan Goes to Detroit'. Peter is also a national bestselling author of seven thrillers, including 'Quiver', 'Trust Me', 'All He Saw was the Girl', 'Voices of the Dead', 'Back from the Dead', 'Eyes Closed Tight', and 'Unknown Remains'.

Martin Jay Weiss is an award-winning filmmaker who has written, directed and produced a vast anthology of commercials, films, and television projects. He has a BS in Journalism from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Film from New York University. Born and raised in Chicago, he now lives in California with his wife and two children. His first novel 'The Second Son' was released in August 2018. 'Flamingo Coast' is his latest novel. Acclaimed author Max Mobley writes from his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He is a former columnist for the pioneering music magazine Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock." He has written extensively for the music industry, including magazine features, reviews, interviews, and books on music technology. Max also penned the popular Rush biography, Rush FAQ―All That's Left To Know About The World's Greatest Canadian Prog Rock Power Trio. Max contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel series Rock Of Ages, honoring the 50th anniversary of the birth of rock and roll. He also wrote the limited series "The Cheif and I" for the Tracy Press. Max’s highly anticipated debut novel, Howard & Debbie, published by Rare Bird Books, will be available February 12, 2019. More at maxmobley.com.

Acclaimed author Max Mobley writes from his home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He is a former columnist for the pioneering music magazine Crawdaddy! The Magazine of Rock." He has written extensively for the music industry, including magazine features, reviews, interviews, and books on music technology. Max also penned the popular Rush biography, Rush FAQ―All That's Left To Know About The World's Greatest Canadian Prog Rock Power Trio. Max contributed to the Santa Cruz Sentinel series Rock Of Ages, honoring the 50th anniversary of the birth of rock and roll. He also wrote the limited series "The Cheif and I" for the Tracy Press. Max’s highly anticipated debut novel, Howard & Debbie, published by Rare Bird Books, will be available February 12, 2019. More at maxmobley.com. Erik Tarloff has written for the stage, the screen (both large and small), and publications like Slate, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Prospect, Vogue, and many others. He contributed to speeches by Bill Clinton and Al Gore. He currently lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, economist Laura Tyson. This is his fourth novel.

Santa Cruz Old Timers Association: Oldies but Goodies, Memories of Santa Cruz- -Dick Scopottone, Host, is a long time resident and musician with a list of nation wide hits from the 60's- -Kim Stoner is president of SCOTA- -Geoffrey Dunn is an author and writer for the Santa Cruz Sentinel and the Good Times- -Regina Z McGraw, Paula Pappas and Penny McBain Debacker are long time residents of Santa Cruz-

Youth Advisory Board: Musa Mustafa   This is the fifth in a series of episodes featuring interviews with the kids of Atari's Youth Advisory Board. If you're just joining us: In 1983, Atari formed a Youth Advisory Board, selecting 20 kids, aged 14 though 18, from around the U.S. to share their opinions about computers, test software, and promote Atari's computers at events.    This is an interview with Musa Mustafa, who was one of those kids.    A March 25, 1983 article in the Santa Cruz Sentinel by Loretta Noffsinger said:   "Computers without keyboards, toys that come to life at the sound of a child's voice and programs that shoulder the chores of thank-you letters — that's what the whiz kids see in the future. They envision a computer disguised within a toy to tell youngsters about the workings of the universe and others 'far beyond man’s imagination.' And Atari is listening to them."   Later in the article, Noffsinger wrote: "Musa Mustafa, 15, says he hopes to design an astronomy program to chart the location of stars and planets at specific times ‘so that I can easily track them down in a telescope.' The Walnut sophomore, who will skip his junior year at Rowland High School, also envisions computers designing computers. This year, they're helping him make a movie about the 1984 Olympics. A combination of computer animation and film, the endeavor will 'open a new category' in the Los Angeles International Film Exposition this spring, he says."   My interview with Musa took place on April 26, 2018. In it, we discuss Ted Kahn, whom I previously interviewed.    Ted Kahn interview   Compute! magazine article about Rowland High School animation   1989 LA Times article about Rowland High School animation   Santa Cruz Sentinel newspaper article

In today's episode, Grey Hayes and Marcia Sivek speak with Dr. Betsy Herbert about her life dedication to forest conservation, specifically redwood forests around the Santa Cruz Mountain Area. Betsy also shares discoveries made about environmental issues while spending a year traveling across the world. We had a great conversation near the shore of the Pacific at Natural Bridges in Santa Cruz, CA.  I love this paragraph below from one of Betsy's blog posts because there is an urgency right now to help protect wild nature. (http://www.betsyherbert.com/newsarticles-blog/) "As an environmentalist, I’ve always held to the notion held by deep ecologists that wild nature, as it evolved through the eons, needs to be preserved as the foundation for life on the planet. Wilderness areas (Earth’s least disturbed places) are a priceless storehouse of our planet’s biodiversity. We need to protect wilderness — or else humans, along with other species that we share the planet with — will perish." Here are more resources Betsy refers to during this conversation: Global Forest Watch Interactive Map: http://www.globalforestwatch.org/map/3/15.00/27.00/ALL/grayscale/loss,forestgain?tab=analysis-tab&begin=2001-01-01&end=2016-01-01&threshold=30&dont_analyze=true Berta Careers - Goldman Environmental Prize recipient in 2015: http://www.goldmanprize.org/recipient/berta-caceres/ The Santa Cruz Mountains Bioregional Council: http://www.scmbc.org - This is a great non-profit with a mission that encourages the preservation and enhancement of regional biodiversity over time through education, the dissemination of accurate scientific informal and assistance in the planning, coordination, and implementation of conservation efforts. Read More articles by Betsy in her monthly column, Earth Matters, in the Santa Cruz Sentinel: http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/environment-and-nature/20170615/earth-matters-travel-pastime-provides-clues-to-the-state-of-the-world  

Sarah Steffen is the Marketing Coordinator at Habitat for Humanity for San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys. She attended San Diego State University and interned for the San Diego State Marketing and Communications Department, working on news and profile stories. She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with an emphasis in Media Studies and a minor in English. She enjoys doing what she loves while giving back and advocating for the community. Shanna McCord is currently a Journalist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. She has been a television and newspaper reporter for 17 years and covered military issues while working in Yuma, AZ. She will share with us a fantastic article she wrote about a man, Dr. Peter Linnerooth, who took his own life after a long time battle with PTSD.

Sarah Steffen is the Marketing Coordinator at Habitat for Humanity for San Fernando/Santa Clarita Valleys. She attended San Diego State University and interned for the San Diego State Marketing and Communications Department, working on news and profile stories. She graduated in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism with an emphasis in Media Studies and a minor in English. She enjoys doing what she loves while giving back and advocating for the community. Shanna McCord is currently a Journalist for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. She has been a television and newspaper reporter for 17 years and covered military issues while working in Yuma, AZ. She will share with us a fantastic article she wrote about a man, Dr. Peter Linnerooth, who took his own life after a long time battle with PTSD.

JONATHAN KIRSCH is the author of twelve books, including seven books on the history of religion and religious texts, two novels and two books on publishing law. (See below.) He has contributed book reviews to the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years, and he appears as a commentator and guest host on NPR affiliates KCRW-FM and KPCC-FM in Southern California. He also serves on the adjunct faculty of New York University's Professional Publishing Program. Kirsch has served as a guest lecturer at schools, universities, libraries, museums, synagogues and churches across the United States. He has also served as legal counsel on a pro bono basis for the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Center for Media Literacy, and California Lawyers for the Arts. He is also general counsel for the Independent Book Publishers Association (formerly Publishers Marketing Association), which presented him with its Benjamin Franklin Award for Special Achievement in Publishing in 1994. Kirsch is a member of California Lawyers for the Arts, the Los Angeles Copyright Society, the Los Angeles Intellectual Property Law Association, and the Intellectual Property Sections of the California State Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Kirsch writes and lectures on legal topics relating to the publishing industry for the Independent Book Publishers Association, the Western Publishing Association, the Publishers Association of the West, the Publishers Association of Los Angeles, the National Museum Publishing Seminar of the University of Chicago's Graham School, the Authors Guild, the Practising Law Institute, the ABA Forum on Entertainment and Sports Law, the Intellectual Property, Internet and New Media Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Mystery Writers Association, the Independent Writers of Southern California, California Lawyers for the Arts, Sisters in Crime, Southwest Manuscripters, and other publishing industry associations and legal programs. Kirsch was born in 1949 in Los Angeles, attended high school in Culver City, and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Russian and Jewish history and Adlai E. Stevenson College honors at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California. A member of the California State Bar since 1976, he earned a Juris Doctor degree cum laude at Loyola University School of Law. Before embarking on the practice of law, Kirsch was senior editor of California Magazine (formerly New West Magazine), where he specialized in a coverage of law, government and politics. Previously, he worked as West Coast correspondent for Newsweek, an editor for West and Home magazines at the Los Angeles Times, and a reporter for the Santa Cruz Sentinel. As a book reviewer and a freelance writer, he has contributed to the Washington Post, Toronto Globe and Mail, California Lawyer, Los Angeles Lawyer, Los Angeles Magazine, New Republic, Publishers Weekly, Performing Arts, Human Behavior, L.A. Architect and other publications. He is also the author of two novels, Bad Moon Rising (1977) and Lovers in a Winter Circle (1978). Kirsch is married to Ann Benjamin Kirsch, Psy.D., a psychotherapist in private practice in Beverly Hills.