[hanamizu]

When Placer County sheriff’s detectives served a warrant on Garcia’s car, they found Wilson’s hair and spots of her blood in the vehicle.

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We had a local murder case. Single older woman disappears. A young man is discovered with her car maybe 50 miles away. There are traces of blood in the trunk. There is blood at her home. But no body. The young man, maybe 17 can’t be charged—no has claimed the car stolen, and there is no proof that she is in fact, dead. They hold him for a while on some juvenile charges but then have to let him go.

Maybe six months later her body is found in a ditch along a highway about five miles from her house. Once the body is found the young man was charged and convicted of the murder. He had done yard work for her and I think killed her when she wouldn’t lend him her car.

[MayflowerMadam]

“He had done yard work for her and I think killed her when she wouldn’t lend him her car.”

Well, that’ll show her, huh?

[PAR35]

You might want to read (or watch the movie) Murder in Coweta County. The prosecutor didn’t even have that much to go on. Just some unidentified brain tissue and some bone fragments. And the testimony of a couple of poor Black farmhands against the rich white landowner.