by Michael Cole | Nov 7, 2026
A burly 17-year-old Sacramento youth, flown here yesterday afternoon for questioning in the murder of two Lompoc sweethearts, has been tentatively eliminated as a suspect in the slayings, Inspector Charles M. Taylor of the sheriff’s office said this afternoon. The...
by Michael Cole | Nov 7, 2026
A husky youth with scratches on his arms and wrists and two .22 caliber weapons in his possession was being flown to Santa Barbara this afternoon from Sacramento as a suspect in the Tuesday slaying of Lompoc high school sweethearts. Robert Lee Bell, 17, who had been...
by Michael Cole | Nov 7, 2026
Investigators stepped up their search in the Lompoc area today for clues which might shed some light on the mysterious slaying Tuesday of teen-age sweethearts at a lonely beach 25 miles north of Santa Barbara. They continued interrogation begun last night of a...
by Michael Cole | Nov 7, 2026
Sheriff’s investigators were in Lompoc again today, still checking out every possibility in the baffling murder of two Lompoc sweethearts on a beach June 4. Police across the state are on the watch for a youth called Sandy, wanted for questioning in the case. He has...
by Michael Cole | Nov 7, 2026
A murdered teen-ager was buried today while investigators, striking a cold trail, backtracked to again scour the isolated beach where the boy and his sweetheart were gunned down Tuesday by a brutal killer. Sheriff James W. Webster said there were no new developments...
