Protect California | Preserve California's Death Penalty
My name is Evelyn Mattia and I would like to tell you my story. On March 1st, 2006, my sister Heather and a co-worker were about to close up my family business at Granada liquor store in El Cajon, CA. The 3 suspects were watching and sitting across the street at the Yogurt Mill waiting [...]
Rosemary Cobbs (Los Angeles County) Stevie Lamar Fields was first convicted at the age of 14 for armed robbery. On September 13, 1978, Stevie Fields was paroled from prison after serving a sentence for bludgeoning Albert Allen to death with a barbell in 1976. Allen’s body was found by his father wrapped in sheets [...]
Doug Ryen, Peggy Ryen, Jessica Ryen (10) and Chris Hughes (11) (San Bernadino County) In June 1983, Kevin Cooper escaped from a minimum security prison in Chino, CA, where he had been serving a 4-year sentence for 2 residential burglaries. A year earlier he had left Pennsylvania where he was suspected of the assault [...]
Susan Jordan (Riverside County) On October 28, 1980, about 7:30 a.m., 15-year-old Susan Jordan left her home to walk to Arlington High School in Riverside County. She never made it to school. Efforts throughout the day to locate her were unsuccessful. That night, evening, Susan’s mother answered the telephone and a caller asked “Hello, [...]
Robin Samsoe Robin Samsoe, a 12-year-old girl from Huntington Beach, California disappeared somewhere between the beach and her ballet class on June 20, 1979. Her decomposing body was found 12 days later in the foothills of Los Angeles. Police subsequently found her earrings in a Seattle locker rented by Alcala. In 1980 Alcala was tried, [...]
Danielle Van Dam (San Diego County) Danielle van Dam was home sleeping in her San Diego house when she was kidnapped by her neighbor David Westerfield. Danielle was 7 years old. Her badly decomposed body was found a few weeks later. Danielle’s blood, hair and fingerprints were found in Westerfield’s RV. Police also [...]
Captain Michael Sparkes (Los Angeles County) On August 10, 2004, Captain Michael Sparkes was riding his bike to work when Miguel Magallon and another man tried to rob him. Magallon shot Captain Sparkes nine times with an AK-47 assault rifle in south Los Angeles. Magallon’s DNA was found on the gun. Captain Sparkes managed [...]
Ineka Edmondson, Fernando Pina, Edgar Valles, Mario Larios (Los Angeles County) Cimarron Bell lured Ineka Edmondson, Fernando Pina, Edgar Valles and Mario Larios to his home in Los Angeles and shot them to death. ×
