Posted on 05/08/2005 5:50:47 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN GABRIEL, Calif. - A Pasadena man found naked and bloody on a roof near an apartment where his girlfriend was found stabbed to death was arrested, authorities said Sunday.
George Wood Pigman IV, 23, was booked for investigation of murder and was being held on $1 million bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
The body of Eimi Yamada, a 21-year-old student from Japan studying in the United States, was found early Saturday morning in an apartment in an unincorporated area near San Gabriel, Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies said.
The deputies found Pigman on the roof of a home less than a quarter-mile away "totally nude, with blood on his body," sheriff's Lt. Gil Carillo said.
Investigators said that Pigman's identification card and other evidence linking him to the crime were found in the woman's apartment.
Neighbors told KABC-TV that they had often seen Pigman skateboarding in the neighborhood, and that they had heard the couple arguing.
Yep, a real pig, man......
Is it possible that drugs were involved?
I was born in San Gabriel Ca...What a hell hole that city is now, they have destroyed our cities and great state of California...
This is California. There could still be a Pigman V.
"You no WOOD...you little toothpick"! stab stab stab
At 23? Arrested maturation?
[Harry Callahan has to explain why he shot a man]
Harry Callahan: Well, when an adult male is chasing a female with intent to commit rape, I shoot the bastard. That's my policy.
The Mayor: Intent? How did you establish that?
Harry Callahan: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross!
[walks out of the room]
The Mayor: He's got a point.
Hmm. I can't help wondering if this kid is the son of a Renaissance scholar named G. W. Pigman III. His first book was "Grief in English Renaissance Elegy." I've read several of his books and articles over the years. He teaches (or used to teach) at the California Institute of Technology.
Surely there can't be a whole lot of G. W. Pigman III's in the U.S., and you would need one of those to produce a G. W. Pigman IV. Too bad, if true.
Here's a google search referencing some of G. W. Pigman III's scholarly work:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-43,GGLD:en&q=G%2E+W%2E+Pigman+III
Well, the scholar I was thinking of is still at Cal Tech. His first name is George. Here's his web page:
http://www.hss.caltech.edu/humanities/faculty/gwp
Whether this was his son in the story I don't know for sure. Just speculating.
You know it can be really hard to come up with a good explination for how you left your id in a girls apartment, and wound up naked on the roof with her blood on you and yet had nothing to do with the murder.
I think his best bet is to claim it was done by space aliens and to stick with it.
Note I didn't say it was a good bet just his best one.
It's a tragic story--another bright girl mixed up with a sociopath. Very sad.
On a lighter note, the names of both parties are downright Dickensian.
"Whether this was his son in the story I don't know for sure. Just speculating."
It does seem likely. I think you're quite brilliant for coming up with it. If the papers stay with the story you'll know for sure in a day or two.
Well, there is idle speculation and then there is intelligent speculation.
Yours seems to be an example of the latter.
San Gabriel is very close to Pasadena (where CIT is located). GWP4 is only 23 years old, so he could have been still living at home or near his parents, so your speculation of a relation to GWP3 seems even more likely.
Pigman, eh? So Kramer was right . . .
That being said, this is one "Pigman" I wish the government WERE experimenting on. What a sick f-ck!.
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