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CHP Investigates Double Homicide in Santa Cruz Mountains Abandoned Truck Deaths
KSBW ^ | Mar 27, 2025 | Felix Cortez

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: bouldercreek; california; castlerock; chp; dougspilman; homicide; losgatos; nickidorris; santacruz; santacruzmountains; seanpfeffer; zachmckay
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So, they just have the identity of one man?
1 posted on 03/28/2025 12:13:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: martin_fierro; ProtectOurFreedom; Carry_Okie; SaveFerris

The latest update.


2 posted on 03/28/2025 12:15:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Whose truck?


3 posted on 03/28/2025 12:18:07 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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A “region” in Italy...?

Wants to move to CA...?

Hmmmmm. Transcript trouble...


4 posted on 03/28/2025 12:21:00 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: Scrambler Bob

They haven’t released that.


5 posted on 03/28/2025 12:22:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: HKMk23

Forget it. He’s on a roll.


6 posted on 03/28/2025 12:22:47 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Scrambler Bob

They haven’t released that.


7 posted on 03/28/2025 12:23:27 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: crusty old prospector

I posted one thing so far today.


8 posted on 03/28/2025 12:24:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

It is a joke from Animal House.


9 posted on 03/28/2025 12:26:23 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

I remember when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.


10 posted on 03/28/2025 12:27:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Larry Ellison talked about a long hike with Steve Jobs in USC’s commencement speech

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.

11 posted on 03/28/2025 12:31:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Nothing is over until we decide it is!


12 posted on 03/28/2025 12:35:09 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Repo man in tow truck seen in area?.


13 posted on 03/28/2025 12:36:09 PM PDT by Vaduz
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“ The bodies were originally ruled suspicious, but CHP investigators have now classified the case as a homicide.”

This tells me it wasn’t a particularly messy crime scene and they were probably killed somewhere else.

14 posted on 03/28/2025 1:33:19 PM PDT by circlecity
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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?


15 posted on 03/28/2025 1:56:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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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.


16 posted on 03/28/2025 4:58:27 PM PDT by circlecity
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17 posted on 03/28/2025 6:55:32 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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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.


18 posted on 03/29/2025 3:10:16 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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My guess is a drug deal gone bad


19 posted on 03/29/2025 3:16:16 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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Wouldn't they have died by gunshot then?

I would expect a little more violent crime scene then, but maybe. Usually drug dealers have their guard up. Both sides.

20 posted on 03/29/2025 1:34:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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