William Lamar Hinson III was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter “with the special allegation that he personally used a deadly weapon” in the 2015 killing Khan Lam in Garberville, according to a press release sent by the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office. Lam, 37, was involved in a physical altercation with a family member in […]
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Brown Commutes Sentences of Two Local Women Convicted of Murder
Among the 131 people who had their criminal sentences commuted by Gov. Jerry Brown on Christmas Eve was Dianna Mae Preston, a Trinidad woman who came to be known as the “vigilante granny” for chasing down and fatally shooting a Eureka man she wrongly believed had molested her granddaughter. Brown set a record for pardons […]
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‘I’m the Monster’
Francine Schulman has forgiven the man who murdered her 14-year-old daughter and left her alone and bleeding on the South Jetty. In fact, it’s taken nearly 25 years but Schulman says she now feels it is time for Thomas Jerome Dunaway to be released from state prison, where he’s been held since June of 1997. […]
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Goldberg Gets 15 to Life
After hearing emotional statements from Tim Smith’s family members and friends, visiting Judge Graham Cribbs sentenced Jon David Goldberg to 15 years to life in prison Oct. 19 for the Fortuna volunteer firefighter’s murder but struck down a firearm enhancement that would have added 25 years to his term. The judge handed down his decision […]
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Chico Man Arraigned on Double Murder Charges
County prosecutors have identified the victims of an alleged double murder in Southern Humboldt Aug. 14 as Tiffany Marie Ellebrecht and Jeremy Dieter Kuemmel. Their alleged killer, 24-year-old Ulisses Rodriguez, who was arrested in Chico a week after Ellebrecht and Kuemmel’s bodies were found in a burning vehicle on Briceland Road near Ettersburg Junction, made […]
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UPDATE: EPD IDs Victim of Sunday’s Fatal Shooting
UPDATE: The Eureka Police Department has identified the victim of Sunday’s fatal shooting as Fortuna resident Sharral Lynne McDonald. She was 60. According to the press release, the suspected shooter Ronald Allen Crossland, 52, who was later found dead in Fortuna of what police are describing as an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, knew McDonald, but […]
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Retired FBI Agent: Lawson’s Murder Can and Should Be Solved
Tom Parker, a retired FBI agent who recently stepped down from assisting the Arcata Police Department’s investigation into David Josiah Lawson’s killing, says he’s convinced the case could be solved in just a few months, if not weeks, if he were able to bring the right people on board. “We’d have this thing finished up,” […]
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Goldberg Faces 40 to Life After Conviction
Jon David Goldberg will face 40 years to life in prison when sentenced May 11 after a jury convicted him Friday of second-degree murder, with an enhancement for personally using a firearm to kill 42-year-old Tim Smith in September of 2016. After less than two days of deliberations following a month-long trial, the jury came […]
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Guilty Pleas Entered in Hash Lab Murder Case
Three suspects who faced murder charges after a hash lab explosion in 2016 left a 21 year old dead pleaded guilty to lesser charges Tuesday. Xavier Renner died in the University of California Davis Medical Center burn unit five weeks after the Nov. 9, 2016 explosion and subsequent fire left him with third degree burns […]
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Humboldt County Man Commits Suicide in Federal Prison
Mikal Xylon Wilde, the Humboldt County man serving a life sentence for murdering a migrant worker at his Kneeland marijuana farm, committed suicide in federal prison on Sept. 22, according to the Associated Press. He was 35. Wilde was convicted on a total of six charges in 2015, including murder in the commission of a […]
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Murder Arrest in Hoopa
In the early hours the day after Thanksgiving, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a call at a home in Hoopa Valley and found wounded woman who died at the scene. Deputies have arrested Lorence Emmanuel Bailey for her murder and his bail is set at $1,000,000. This is Humboldt County’s 20th homicide of the […]
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Fortuna Police Investigating Apparent Murder-Suicide
UPDATE: The Fortuna Police Department has identified the deceased as 50-year-old Steve Sisson and 81-year-old Jerry Sisson. No motive has yet been identified in the case. PREVIOUSLY: The Fortuna Police Department is investigating what it believes to be a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of a father and his son. Police were called to a […]