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THE OLDEST COLD CASE IN HISTORY!

A TRUE STORY.

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TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

In 1957 I was at my family home where I resided at the time. Shortly after 3:00am I was awaken andarrested in full view of my family. I was not handcuffed. Something the police did not do in the 1950's.

I was taken to the Inglewood, California police station and greeted by a large number of policemen andFBI men. Captain Stevenson of the Inglewood police force came forward and told me not to worry—heknew I didn't do it. Just what it "was" at the time was a mystery.

I was placed in a line up with several others. None of which were over 12 years of age and 5 foot tall.I was placed before a two-way mirror, which I could see through. I witnessed a of people and ayoung girl and everyone was pointing towards me, but the girl. She kept shaking her head' N0'. Didn'tmatter--she was getting the old finger in the chest routine and told to say EYES". This went on for aboutan hour. The girl, sobbing heavily and shaking, never changed her mind. `1 was not the man!'

My father arrived at the police station and spoke to Captain Stevenson. My father was ve ry blunt and hemeant what he said: "Release this boy and I mean now!" My father worked for Standard Oil in ElSegundo, California. Standalyd Oil kept the city of El Segundo in their parks, public swimming pools andother recreational facilities. My father was a well respected m an with Standard Oil, and he could requestthe extra money the city enjoyed spending on their local citizens—be cut off.

I was pulled out of the line up and placed into a room with Captain Stev enson, my father, and manyothers. I was now asked to toll the men in the room where I was at 1:30am on this day. My answer wassimple: "I was home in bed." My father spoke up and st ated for all to hear: "This is exactly the samething I told you. ' He is coming home with me!" I was released. " I was nev er asked if I killed anyone."

The crime: 2 El Segundo poicemen were killed in El Segundo, Cal ifOmia--at 1:30am on this day. Earlierin the same day by about an hour (12:30am) the man suspected of killing the policemen had raped ayoung girl and pistol-whipped the two boys she was with and her girlfriend. I think he had robbed them,also. Those were the young people the police was trying to convince I was the tu x, and this girl's rapist,

Had the son-of-bitch policemen succeed in getting that young, scared girt to say itwas me—I'd have goneto the gas chamber in San Quentin, California! I watched the police torture this girl for an hour, but shekept indicating the man was taller. So did the other three victims. `The man was tafler." I didn't appeartall to the girl--even when placed in a line-up with juveniles. I had been identified by the victims from aprevious police mug shot for fighting. However, let's not forget the police had to have known the man inthis case was taller, why else would the police place children in their line-up with me?

This incident has caused me to be denied coaching little league baseball & football, which I enjoy. And,when I was stopped by a policeman for anything, Including a traffic ticket—they were warned to call forbackup. Police guns have been pulled on me for such incidents. I was denied parole twice inCalifornia—unless I could tell the parole board something about these cops getting themselves killed.

"I knew the men killed. One was decent, the other was not. I believe, the policemen—angered this maninto killing them." Parole board didn't like my answer, but what could I tell them—who killed and why?had no knowledge) That didn't seem to matter. They believed I did it, and that was enough for them.

For the record: The man who shot the two policemen was apprehended in North Carolina in 2003. Heconfessed to the killings and Is serving a life sentence in California's prison system. What else do youwant to know about our wonderful justice system? Are they reliab le and truthful? "HELL NO!°

It is time to clean up our judi cial system with energy towards the truth. It is overdue!

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The Oldest Cold Case in HistoryThe Heinous CrimeWhen the cold case unit was formed in Los Angeles, detectives faced adaunting backlog of 9,000 unsolved m urder cases dating back fourdecades. But killings don't get any colder than the 1957 murder of twoyoung cops during a routine traffic stop. Investigators had all butgiven up on the case — one of the oldest unsolved homicides in thecoutry — when modern to thnoiagy finally caugt up with justice.

The story begins 48 years ago, on July 21, in a desolate area of an oilfield in Hawthorne, California. With its view of the ocean andglittering city Ids, the spot made a perfect lovers' lane, which iswhere, around midnight, two teenage couples in a 1949 Ford were parked.They went alone for long. Out of the darkness, a m an in his 20s,with a pompadour hairstyle, approached the car and, in a distin ctSouthern drawl the teenagers would never forget, said all he warted todo was rob them. He pointed his .22, told the frightened yo iihs to handover their watches and cash, then made himself out to be a liar.

Snapping off pieces of both duct and surgical tape to strap over theireyes and mouths, he forced three of them, two boys and a .girl, into thebackseat, while he raped the other girl in the front. Terrified, theyouths figured

they'd be killed so there woi^d be no witnesses.Instead, the intruder ordered the teenagers to take off eve rything buttheir underwear, and left them, nearly naked, in the middle of nowhereas he sped away in their Ford.

Two miles to the west, in the city of El Segundo, officers RichardPhillips, 29, and Milton Curtis, 25, were patrolling the streets whenthey saw a man in a Ford run a red light. It was 1:30 am. They filedthe car over and noticed clothes — a yellow sundress, a sl ip and aman's sport shirt -- strewn across the backseat. The officers or deredthe driver out of the car, and as Curtis used his radio to callheadquarters, the man pulled out his .22 and shot P hillips three timesin the back. Then he pointed the gun inside the patrol car where Curtiswas sitting and fired three more times, striking him in the chest.

Phillips managed to discharge his service revolver three times in thedirection of the man - who by then was climbing back behind the wheel

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of the Ford -- before he fell to the ground. With both off icers down,the driver took off. Four blocks away, he abandoned the car and fled onfoot.

Back in the oil field, the teenagers eventually stunbied upon asec riy guard and asked for help. Still dazed when the police showedup, the youths struggled to recall physical details of the perpetratorin hopes a composite sketch wouldlead to his arrest.

The young rape victim was examined, but in the 1950s, says DarrenLevine, the deputy DA assigned to the case in 2002, 'the way theyhandled a rape case was much different from today. They gave back thegirl's semen-stained underpants and slip, so we never had that forensicevidence to work with later on."

Keith Curtis, now 53, was only fare, and his sister two, when he hearda knock on the door at fog in the morning. "I was awakened by voicesand my mothers crying," he recalls. His mother was so rattled shecouldn't get the front door unlocked. 'What's wrong?" she called to theEl Segundo police chief. "Is my husband hurt?"

"No, it's worse than that," said the chef, who, at a house a mileaway, had just delivered the same devastat ing news to the widow ofOfficer Phillips and his three young children.

"I was confused for a while," Curtis says. "My mother kept saying myfather had just gone away on a trip. Finally, she told me he'd gone toheaven and couldrf t come home."

The killing of the policemen made headlines in Southem Cahlorn a formonths. In the abandoned Ford, detectives found three bullet holes fromthe shots Phillips fired -- two in the rear window and one in the trunk-- but located only two projectiles. Where was the third? The answerwould eventually stun them. Also in the Ford, torn clothing and 20'feces

of tape were found, along with three partial fingerprints on thesteering wheel and a car panel. But with no computer databases againstwhich to check the prints, police simply sealed and stored them.

Over the next few years, as detectives worked the case, bits ofevidence su rfaced. A month after the murders, a woman gardening in herbackyard near where the Ford was abandoned found a marts watch but madeno correction to the cranes. Two years later, her t usband was clearingbrush in the yard when he discovered a piece of a .22-caliber handgunbut, like his wife, didn't think much about it and put it on a shelf inthe garage.

In 1960, the couples son was working outside when he found therevolver's rusty cylinder. The boy's father, having seen news storiesabout the officers' deaths, put two and two together. He reasoned that,with his house located close to the crime scene, the suspect had tossedthe incriminating evidence in the backyard as he fled. The man phonedpolice.

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the gun were consistent with bullets removed from Curtis's andPhillips's bodies, elated police finally had their first break.Investigators were able to trace the murder weapon to a Shreveport,Louisiana, Sears store, where records indicated it had been purchasedthree days prior to the killings. But because identification wasn't'

necessary for the purchase, the customer had simply signed the receipt,"G. D. Wilson," in wide-spaced lettering.

the way they handled a rape case was much different from today. Theygave back the girls semen-stained underpants and slip, so we never hadthat forensic evidence to work with later on investigators located theclerk who handled the transaction and, amazingly, he recalled that thepurchaser was a man with a pompadour who seemed in a hurry to get outof town. But the trail went dead when those leads led nowhere, sendingthe case into cold storage for another 42 years.An Unlikely Tip;The backlog of cold cases grows longer each year. Of the more than 560homicides committed annually in Los Angeles, almost 50 percent gounsolved.

Lisa Kahn, head of the DA's forensic sciences division, and DavidLambkin of LAPD's cold case unit, are leading the effort to crack thecity's cold cases by using modem technology, irluding trackingsoftware, DNA evidence (blood, hair and semen) and computerizeddatabases of fingerprints and ballistics records. The work began in2001 with a $50 million state grant to cover the costs of examining DNAIn unsolved sexual assault case. The grant al o wed detectives toreview cases using a state database containing 300,000 DNA samples fromknown offenders. To date, investigators in L.A. have solved 28 coldcases and are hopeful of solving another 50

this year.

Kahn first became fascinated with forensics when she tried a doublerape case in the late '80s. It was the first case in LA. County innwhich DNA was entered as evidence, and it introduced Kahn to the worldof genetic profiling. Because the rapist wore a mask, his victims couldnot identify him, Kahn obtained blood samples from the suspect that,when tested against semen left in the victims' bodies, produced a DNAmatch.

"I look at an old case like a big forensic pi e," says Kahn. "You cantell a lot from DNA testing - whether there were multipleperpetrators, for example, or whether a victim was killed, or draped,at the scene."

Not all cold cases are solved using DNA. Fingerprint evidence can be ahelpful tool, and it would prove key in the El Segundo officers' murdercase. Before computerized fingerprint databases were developed in themid-'80s, detectives had to come up with a suspect and then compareprints on file, often with limited results.

With advances in technology, however, fingerprints can now be scanneddirectly into huge computer systems. 'We can take a fingerprint from acrime scene, process it and search it against prints in the database,"says Lambkin, "which can tell us who the suspect is instead of vice

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That's precisely what happened In the 1957 case, which was reopened inthe fall of 2002 after.jinvestigators, out of the blue, received a tip.

A man dying of cancer informed police that his kid brother, yearsearlier, had boasted of kilIirg the Ei Segundo officers. Whendetectives checked out the kid brother, they determ ined that he wasrf tcredible.

"He took cred it for all sorts of crimes," says Deputy DA Levine,"including killing Robert Kennedy. But the tip, though irrelevant,stirred up interest in the case."

By then, fingerprint analysis had come a long way. In J uly 1999, theFBI comp leted compiling its Integrated Automated FingerprintIdentificat ion System (IAFIS), a nationwide fingerprint databasecontaining some 40 million prints of known offenders. Detectivesassigned to the 1957 case ran its composite of the prints from the Fordthrough the database, then waited expectantly to see what woub comeback.

"rul never forget the moment when I got the phone call from the crimelab ana lyst who said we had a match," recalls Lt. Craig Cleary, head ofEl Segurdo's detective unit. "I thought he was kidding. 'Are you sire?I asked"

"I'm certain," the analyst said.

The print belonged to a man named Gerald F. Mason who lived inColumbia, South Carolina. In 1966, a year before the officers`killings, a then-22- year-old Mason had been arrested in So uth Carolinafor commercial burglary (the only other crime on his record), so hisfingerprints were onfile In that state. But those prints did not maketheir way to the national database until many years later.

Detectives began tracking Mason and soon learned more details abouthim. He was 68, weighed 195 pounds, had been married for 40 years, andhad two grown children and several grandchildren. After working in gasstations in his youth, he had eventually bought a service stationchain, an investment that made him a wealthy man. In fact, he was wellknown and respected in Columbia. Upon retiring a few years earlier, hehad begun spending much of his time bowling and playing golf.

The first call Cleary made after identifying Mason was to the family ofOfficer Mi lton Curtis. "I was intrigued but wary," says Keith Curtis,who today works for a heavy equipment company, is ma rried and has a19-year-old daughter. Cleary also phoned Richard P'tiliips's family. Bythen, his widow was in her 70s, and his three children weremiddle-aged. "I talked to her son, and he almost hung up on me," Clearysays. "He thought it was a prank call. But the more I talked, the morehe realized this might be true."

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that forensic evidence to work w ith later on.Justice Is Finally Served"I'm not a religious guy," a lairs Deputy DA Levine, 'but thi...was one

of those cases where you feel someone above is watching over you Allthe stars aligned to make It work."

Still, Levine wanted more evidence. "I warted to make sure, 46 yearslater, before arresting someone who is a successf ul businessman and apillar of his community, that we had a rock-solid case that would go totrial and end with a conviction." Investigators tracked down as manywitnesses as they could, but several, inckiding the 16-year ofd boy whohad owned the Ford, had died.

One witness -- the Sears clerk with the excellent memory -- was notonly still alive, but he had risen through the ranks to become a VP ofthe retail chain. All those years later, the man st I rememberedMason, his Southern accent and that he appeared in a hur ry. Havinglearned that Mason had been living at a YMCA in Columbia when he wasarrested in 1956, detectives began checking other YMCAs to see if theycould place him near the Sears in Shreveport, where the murder weaponhad been purchased.

Sure enough, on the registry of a YMCA right across from the store,they spotted the signature of one "George D. Wilson." Detectivescompared the signature with the one on the gun sales form and withMason's signature on a recent business documert. All three matched.

'We knew we had him then," Levine says. Detectives are still notexactly sure why Mason had come west to California, but his journeyacross the United States, possibly to deal w ith a legal matterit volving his mother, fit the time per iod of the crimes.

It was daybreak on Janua ry 29, 2003, when a group of eager officials,including Deputy DA Levine and Lieutenant Cleary, came to Mason's frontdoor. "He had the deer-in-the-headlights look," Cleary recalls.

'We wart to talk to you about the murder of two El Segundo poficeofficers," one of the detectives said.

"He didn't deny it," C leary says, "but we could tell he was shockedwe'd solved the case after all these years."

At the local jail, officials searched Mason and found a circular scar,the size of a dime, on his back. In a later admission, Mason finallyprovided the answer to a question that had baffled investigators fordecades. Phillips's third bullet, which police could find no evidenceof at the scene of the crime, had struck Mason just below the rightshoulder blade, and he still had the scar to prove it.

In March 2003, after waivkg extradition, Mason was brought to LosAngeles, where he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder.He was not charged with rape and robbery because the victims didn'twant to go through the ordeal of a trial. Sentenced to two life terms,Mason, as part of his plea agreement, is serving out his days in a

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Masondeclined to be interviewed for this story, but during his plea

nearfr he offered officials some insight, however credible, into hismotive for the killings, "It wasn't premed itated at all," Mason toldthe officials. "[One of the offers] started pressing me...I wasscared they came. I was really fearful."

As for robbing the teenagers and raping the 15-year-old girl, alcoholappears to have had an influence. "I really don't have an explanationfor why this happened to them. I wish I did," Mason said. "I'm stilltrying to just figure out how I got there [ in the oil field]. I dorecall being in Vegas. I feel like I have a memory of a liquor bottlein that field somewhere, [which] I left empty." What Mason seemed toimply was that the deadly events of that night in 1957 had occurredwhile he was in some kind of alcohol-induced haze.

In contrast, Keith Curtis's memory of his father has always beencrystal clear. "I never gave up hope," he says. "I missed not having mydad around, and he missed a lot too. I just could never accept thatsomeone had simply gotten away with his murder,"

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All Members: Advisory commission on the Administration of Justice. (ease, place into record.)

Enclosed are letters from Nevada's p risoners, concerning their health and the medical condi tions they areforced to endure, at the hands of the Department of Corrections in Nevada. In addition, there are letters,and grievances concerning: clothing, laundry, medical transport, showers and a host of other things thatcould be corrected by demanding, by one of you commi ttee members-to make the necessa ry changesimmediately. Nevada's Department of Correction's Director sits along side all you committee members. Heis, if you don't know, Howard Skolnik-prison director, a disgrace to Nevada and the man that appointed him.

How hard would it be to tell this director to do the right thing, and correctly do his job as director of prisons?People are suffering today, and will continue to do so--until someone in a position to make changes doessomething about it. Are there no men in this state that knows the difference between abuse and humanity?"

While this committee is concerning itself mainly with the abuses of larger p riorities, courts, sentencing,parole etc., you are overlooking abuses that cannot be to lerated forever, unless this committee has closedeyes and is embracing the tactics of Iran, Iraq & Russia, as their behavior model towards their prisoners.One man, John Leone, died as the result of a High Desert State Prison officer--refusing to answer the callof a man trying to get medical attention. The man was found dead in the morning by another shi ft officer.How honorable is that? (Ask me to prove the officer never left his office/bubble to call medical for this dyingman! And, taunted the other prisoners to shut up" try ing to get attention for Mr. Leone. How much effort isit to make a phone call for medical staff assistance?) A ttorney General—anyone? (Yeah, sure!)

Medical & Dental problems need to be addressed NOW Not years from now, when whatever changes thiscommittee recommends—if any, are applied. Committee members would not permit their ch ildren & lovedones to endure this pain Nevada's director of pmts permits everyday. Does he allow this type abuse tocontinue-because he is too cowardly to put a stop to his employee's blatant abuses? Or, is he playingpolitics with human lives? 'Save money in this fight economy and get rea ppointed—maybe?

Is it possible, that a committee member could put the word in the govemot's ear to erase the abuse inNevada's prisons? Just a thought... " Money Vs Humanity!" (Remember. Prisone r's families vote!)

I'd like to see this committee's humanity come to the fore and put restraints on how long a prison can keepprisoners in the hole? Yeah, yeah, I know, it is called administration segregation, but never-the-less it isstill an inhumanity to man & a disgrace to Nevada. Some prisoners have been in the "hole" for yearswithout a break & never see the sun. That's another health issue—Vitamin D denied=possible heart failure.

I know some of you think of administrative segregation as a joke, but I've asked some members to spendthree days on a prison yard and get the true facts of prison living and to see what changes can berecommended. Couldn't find one person to consider this suggestion! In 1970, Assemblyman Leo Ryan didit in California's Folsom Prison. He lived to see range. He made the me-pith firsthand know edge

I'm still wondering, why this committee at the ir April 2008 meeting at High Desert State Prison didn't takeadvantage while there, and speak with some of the prisoners to get some valid informat ion--instead of flufffrom Nevada's parasites--that have a pay check to protect, and will do so at any cost? 4Just a lhought...-V

Have a nice day! Respectfully submitted.

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Mr. Donald HintonSpartacus Project1919 Hallwood DriveLas Vegas, NV 89119

Dear Don:

I an writing to make you aware of what is happening at Southern Desert Correctional Centerwith the hope that you can confront the appropriate authorities and politicians to improve oursituation. You may already be aware of some of these things,'and some are specific to SDCCwhere our living conditions have steadily deteriorated at the direction of warden Brian Williamsand his assistants.

1. Parole hearings are now being conducted in absentia and almost no one is being paroled,and certainly not one year prior to expiration as directed by legislature. The system isclogged up as ever and they are just perpetuating the problem by not paroling people, asthey will just have to see them again in a year or two. The absentia hearings are takingplace many months after the eligibility dates, but the dumps are effective from the latehearing date, not the original eligibility date.

2. Good time credit is still not being given day for day. They are giving 6 credits permonth instead of 10 days, or 12 credits instead of 20 days, depending on thecircumstances.

3. Overcrowding has become a real problem at SDCC since they built two new housingunits, adding 500 more inmates to the yard with no additional support services, resultingin:

a. Culinary being so busy trying to keep up that it takes hours to... . all the mates... - r hdingot sack lches at breakfast to tr y to ke ep upThey have even resoed to

The quality and quantity of food has been cut, I guess to try to save on food costs,leaving hungry inmates.

b. An overwhelmed Medical department with one doctor, one dentist, and an eye doctorthat comes in one or two days a month, to service 2,300 inmates. They were alreadybesieged before adding the extra inmates, now it is completely out-of-hand having towait months on end for an appointment.

C. The Education department was not large enough to handle the amount of inmatesbefore the new housing units were added, now it too is completely overwhelmed withpeople having to wait forever to get into a class. Vocational students who have theirhigh school diploma but need additional training, such as computers, have no hope ofgetting a class.

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d. Visiting times have been cut substantially because they don't have enough room toaccommodate everyone. Someone wanting to visit has to make an appointment aweek in advance and can only visit for a morning or afternoon, not the entire day.People are not allowed to use the visiting patio anymore, further diminishing theamount of visitors that can be accommodated. People are being denied visits becausethere is not enough room.

e. Yard Time has been reduced significantly since Brian Williams took over. The yardused to be open to each unit as they were released for chow. Now the yard is notopened until all units have been fed, and considering the extra time it now takes tofeed all these inmates, we get less than half the yard time we used to get. They havealso reduced the number of days that each unit gets yard time to cut down on theamount of inmates on the yard at any one time, again a result of the overpopulation.Inmates are also being made late to class and their programming activities becausethe yard does not open on time.

4. Convenience Bed Moves are no longer allowed, so if cellmates are not getting along, theonly alternative is to go to the hole. This policy results in violence and makes livingconditions unbearable in certain conditions. Convenience bed moves wereaccommodated until Brian Williams got here,

5. Outcounts so that inmates can remain at their job during the 11:15 a.m. count timeinstead of having to return to their unit has been eliminated, wasting valuable work timeand putting a strain on free staff and the inmate workers because they can't keep up withtheir workload. I to 1-1/2 hours a day is being wasted.

6. Door calls have been instituted where inmates can only enter or leave their housing unitduring a ten minute time span on the hour and half hour. Ices are being made late forappointments and other obligations, and if they have to leave work to get their laundry orstore purchases, they have to wait to get in and out of their unit to put their things in theircell, making them lose more work/programming time. To make matters more difficult,some guards are not keeping to the established door call schedule and only open themwhen and if they feel like it.

7. The Package Program where inmate's families could order clothing and food items forthem twice a year has been eliminated. Clothing items have also been eliminated fromthe

lumate store, so no clothing can be-.purchased-at a11. This is-only going'to cost thestate more money having to provide clothing that most inmates used to buy. There arealso rumors that they are going to put all inmates in jumpsuits, which will cause arebellion as many will not tolerate this humiliation.

8. The Inmate Store and Coffee Shop have both been forced to substantially cut down thefood items available for purchase. Inmates that can afford it buy most of their food fromthe stores because the culinary food is so horrible. Now that is being restricted whichwill make the prison food costs increase unnecessarily.

9. Inmate jobs are very hard to get because there are not enough of them, and more arebeing eliminated, instead of trying to create them. This results in longer prison sentencesbecause inmates have no way of earning the good time credit. All nighttime porter jobswere recently eliminated, putting dozens of inmates out of work.

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10. A new camp is under construction outside the fence of SDCC, at the same time as thestate is having budget problems and supposedly were to cut out all new construction. Iwonder if the taxpayers are aware of this.

I hope that you can find an opportunity to address these subjects at the appropriate level so thatour quality of living and parole issues can improve. Thank you for your efforts on our behalf.

Sincerely,

Walter TrippP.O.: Box 208 .... .. r.Indian Springs, NV 89070

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