What I wanna know is, what really happened to Kenneth Michael Trentadue? The main “alternative” theory I’m aware of is that he was mistaken for bank Rubber / white separatist Richard Lee Guthrie, and “dispatched” by prison personnel. Plenty of weird stuff about that as well.
Strangely, Trentadue and Guthrie looked enough alike to be brothers, right down to having the same dragon tattoo on the left forearm. Very similar build, similar facial hair, etc. If I remember correctly, Guthrie was intending to tell the world about a whole bunch of stuff, but he never got to say what he intended to say because he, too, “committed suicide” in his cell. Link below: (Hopefully it will copy correctly as a hyperlink):
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-13-mn-23659-story.html
Just read the article you linked. So many questions are tied up in this story from 30 years ago. They diverted and ignored the details for so long, nearly everyone has lost interest. Makes you wonder how many other stories have a false memory now - ie Lincoln assassination, Pearl Harbor, TWO 800.