Posted on 03/28/2025 12:13:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
CHP investigators have confirmed that the two men found in the back of a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains earlier this week were murder victims.
Both victims are from Boulder Creek, and the identity of one of the men has been confirmed as 45-year-old Sean Pfeffer, according to his sister, who spoke with Action News 8 by phone from Texas.
"It's awful just knowing that he was in the back of an abandoned truck and that's not where obviously the murder was. So somebody had to put him in the back of the truck, you know, Was he alive? I don't know. I don't know. It's just terrible," Nicki Dorris, Pfeffer's sister, said.
The bodies were originally ruled suspicious, but CHP investigators have now classified the case as a homicide. The pickup truck was towed away on Tuesday afternoon.
"That's pretty crazy. I don't know the guys personally or anything, but it's definitely pretty shocking," said Zach McKay, a Boulder Creek resident.
Investigators have not disclosed the cause of death or whether any suspects have been identified.
"Well, especially the way it happened, found in the back of a truck that very odd up here," he said. "I might have seen something similar 30 years ago. Very odd," Doug Spilman, a Boulder Creek resident said
A region in Italy is offering €100,000 to move there. But there’s a catch A key piece of evidence may be a social media post, Pfeffer made just two days before his body and that of his friend were found off Highway 35, several miles from Castle Rock State Park.
In that post, Pfeffer might have predicted his fate and identified a possible suspect. The name has been blurred out as investigators have not publicly named a suspect.
Pfeffer's family is hoping for answers.
"Nobody deserves this.. if Boulder Creek is a close-knit little community, somebody knows something, this needs to be solved so we can have some closure," Dorris said.
The latest update.
Whose truck?
A “region” in Italy...?
Wants to move to CA...?
Hmmmmm. Transcript trouble...
They haven’t released that.
Forget it. He’s on a roll.
They haven’t released that.
I posted one thing so far today.
It is a joke from Animal House.
I remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.
In 2019, when they were remodeling and expanding the entrance to this park, they promoted it as a place a lot of tech executives went. But don't blame the park.
Nothing is over until we decide it is!
Repo man in tow truck seen in area?.
This tells me it wasn’t a particularly messy crime scene and they were probably killed somewhere else.
It seems they weren’t shot? Because if you find two people shot in the back of a pickup, you know it was homicide right?
I dunno. A .22 leaves a small hole and not a lot of blood if someone moves the body. But, yeah, you would think they would inspect for any holes before they made a statement.
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“A region in Italy is offering €100,000 to move there. But there’s a catch”
please don’t insert commercial ads in your copy and paste, or if you do copy through ads, please delete them out. What you post should be just article wording.
thanks.
My guess is a drug deal gone bad
I would expect a little more violent crime scene then, but maybe. Usually drug dealers have their guard up. Both sides.
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