victims killers

In pursuit of justice for
victims
and appropriate justice for
killers
RANDY KRAFT
KEVIN COOPER
CHARLES NG
RODNEY ALCALA
CARY STAYNER
Murdered 16 young men
in the early 1970’s
Murdered 4 people in
1983
Murdered 5 women in
the late 1970’s
Murdered 4 people in
1983
Death Row Since 2000
Death Row Since 1985
Convicted of 11
murders, likely
committed 25
Death Row Since 2010
Death Row Since 2002
Death Row Since 2001
“I think people have gotten exquisite due process in the state
of California. It goes on for 20 or 25 years and to think that
they’ve missed anything like they have in some other states;
I have not seen any evidence of it. None. I know people say,
‘Oh, there have been all these innocent people,’ Well, I have
not seen one name on death row that’s been told to me.”
- Governor Jerry Brown, Former Attorney General
“NO INNOCENT INMATES”
THE WORST OF THE WORST AND THEIR VICTIMS
It is hard to know who to call the worst on death row: serial killers, sexual sadists, baby killers, cop killers, people
who kill even while incarcerated. These are our top picks for horror stories that shock the conscience. There are so
many more, including more serial killers, but the following stories show the variety of ways in which psychopathy
manifests.
There is no serial killer on death
row more terrifying that CHARLES
NG. Ng entered the U.S. on a
student visa at age 18, then joined
the Marines but was caught stealing
weapons and sentenced to 3 years
in Leavenworth. After his release,
Ng met Leonard Lake and began a
notorious crime spree of kidnap,
CHARLES NG
rape, torture and murder at Lake’s
remote cabin in Calaveras County.
While Ng was ultimately convicted of 11 murders for
which he was sentenced to death, the investigation tied the
disappearances of dozens of men, women and children to Ng
and Lake. An excavation of the area surrounding Lake’s cabin
resulted in the discovery of the bodies of 7 men, 3 women, 2
baby boys, 45 pounds of bone fragments and numerous items
of clothing and personal property of the victims. Many of
the human remains had been sawed into pieces and burned.
Some victim remains are believed to have been cremated in
an incinerator located on the property. Other victims were
ground up and fed to
chickens before their
bones were buried. Ng
and Lake kidnapped
men, women and even
entire families, including
small children, few of
whom survived. But the
self-made videotapes
and photos that Ng and
Harvey Dubs, his wife, Deborah and
Lake made documenting
infant son Sean
their crimes were
ultimately used at Ng’s trial. In
these tapes, the two are shown
raping and sodomizing terrified
women while their horrified
husbands and children cry in the
background. In one tape a female
victim begs for information about
her baby, who she is told by Lake,
is “sound asleep, like a rock.” The
videos also show women and girls
as young as twelve being forced
Lonnie Bond, Sr. with wife,
to engage in three-way sexual
Brenda and son
acts with the suspects and other
Lonnie Bond, Jr.
prisoners.
The killings came to an end
only because Ng was caught shoplifting in a nearby town and
fled on foot. Lake, who was with him and armed with a gun,
was captured. When interviewed by police, Lake gave up the
name of his crime partner and then proceeded to swallow
two cyanide pills. He was taken to the hospital but later died.
Ng was apprehended in Canada and was returned to the
U.S. His trial was transferred to Orange County where a jury
found him guilty of 11 of the 12 murders he was charged
with and recommended a sentence of death. It is believed he
had upwards of 25 victims.
Another one of California’s most
notorious serial killers, LAWRENCE
BITTAKER and his partner, Roy
Norris, devised a plan to kidnap
rape and kill local girls. Bittaker
bought a van, which they came to
call ‘Murder Mack’, because it had no
side windows in the back and a large
passenger side sliding door. From
LAWRENCE
February to June 1979, they drove
BITTAKER
along the Pacific Coast Highway,
stopped at beaches, talked to girls
and took their pictures. When they were later arrested, police
found nearly 500 pictures among Bittaker’s belongings.
On June 24, 1979 they picked up 16-year-old Cindy
Schaeffer near Redondo Beach. Norris forced her into the
van, duct taped her mouth and bound her arms and legs.
Bittaker drove her to the San Gabriel Mountains where they
both raped her. Bittaker then wrapped a straightened wire
coat hanger around her neck, tightened with vice-grip pliers
and strangled her to death. They then wrapped her body in
shower curtain and dumped it in a canyon.
They later picked up 18-year-old Andrea Hall, where she
was attacked in the van. Norris jumped her, bound her arms
and legs, and taped her mouth. She was taken to a remote
area and raped repeatedly. Bittaker then dragged her from the
van. She was stabbed with an ice pick in both ears. When she
wouldn’t die fast enough, she was strangled. Her body was
then thrown off a cliff.
In September 1979, Bittaker and Norris offered Jackie
Gilliam, 15, and Leah Lamp, 13, a ride while they sat at a bus
stop. After getting in the van, the girls became suspicious
and tried to escape. Bittaker and Norris beat the girls with a
baseball bat. They were then bound. They kept the girls alive
for two days, raping and torturing them the whole time with
a wire hanger and pliers. Bittaker and Norris went so far as to
make an audio recording of the events.
Eventually, they beat them with sledgehammer and an ice
pick. Their bodies were dumped over a cliff. Jackie’s head still
had the ice pick in it when she was found.
CARY STAYNER was hired as
a handyman in 1997 at the Cedar
Lodge motel in El Portal, just outside
the entrance to Yosemite National
Park. Between February and July
1999, he murdered two women
and two teenagers: Carole Sund;
her daughter, 15-year-old Juli Sund;
their travel companion, 16-year-old
CARY STAYNER
Argentine exchange student Silvina
Pelosso; and Yosemite Institute
employee Joie Ruth Armstrong, 26, a naturalist.
The first two victims, Carole Sund and Silvina Pelosso,
were found in the trunk of the charred remains of Carole’s
Pontiac rental car. The bodies were burned beyond
recognition and were identified using dental records. A note
was sent to police with a hand-drawn map indicating the
location of the third victim, Juli Sund. The top of the note
read, “We had fun with this one.” Investigators went to the
location depicted on the map and found the remains of Juli,
whose throat had been cut.
Detectives began interviewing employees of the Cedar
Lodge motel where the first three victims had been staying
just before their deaths. One of those employees was Cary
Stayner, but he was not
considered a suspect
at that point because
he had no criminal
history and remained
calm during the police
interview. When the
decapitated body of the
fourth victim Joie Ruth
Silvino Pelosso and Juli Sund
Armstrong was found,
eyewitnesses said they
saw a blue 1979 International Scout parked outside the cabin
where Armstrong was staying. Detectives traced this vehicle
to its owner, who turned out to be Stayner. This caused
Stayner to become the prime suspect in the case. FBI agents
John Boles and Jeff Rinek found Stayner staying at Laguna del
Sol nudist resort in Wilton, where he was arrested. His vehicle
yielded evidence linking him to Joie Armstrong. During his
interrogation, Stayner confessed to the four murders as well
as to sending the map for finding Juli Sund’s body.
Stayner claimed after his arrest that he had fantasized
about murdering women since he was seven years old.
Cindy Schaeffer,
Jackie Gilliam,
Leah Lamp,
Ardrea Hall and
Lynette Ledford
In October 1979, they went on to kidnap 16-year-old
Lynette Ledford, raping her and then tape recording her
scream of agony as they crushed and mutilated her genitals
and nipples with vice grip pliers. Like before, they tape
recorded the whole thing while Ledford screamed in agony.
Eventually, they strangled Lynette with a wire hanger and
pliers. They dumped her body on the front lawn of a home in
Hermosa Beach.
From 1977-1979, RODNEY
ALCALA murdered 5 women
in Southern California. He was
also charged in New York for
the murder of two women in
the 1970’s. Alcala was dubbed
the “Dating Game” serial killer
because of his 1978 appearance
on the television show The Dating
Game during his murder spree.
RODNEY ALCALA
In 2010, Rodney Alcala was
sentenced to death by a Los
Angeles jury for the rape-murders of four women and one
twelve-year-old girl, Robin Samsoe. In 2013 he received an
additional sentence of 25 years to life after pleading guilty
to two homicides in New York in 1971 and 1977. His true
victim count remains unknown.
In March 2010, the Huntington Beach and New
York City Police Departments released 120 of Alcala’s
photographs and sought the public’s help in identifying
them, in the hope of determining if any of the women
and children he photographed were additional victims.
Approximately 900 additional photos could not be made
public, police said, because they were too sexually explicit.
Prosecutors say that Alcala “toyed” with his victims,
strangling them until they lost consciousness, then waiting
until they revived, sometimes repeating this process
several times before finally killing them. Police discovered
a collection of more than 1,000 photographs taken by
Alcala, mostly of women and teenage boys, most of them in
sexually explicit poses.
Alcala committed his first known crime in 1968: A
motorist in Los Angeles called police after watching him lure
an eight-year-old girl named Tali Shapiro into his Hollywood
apartment. The girl was found raped and beaten with a steel
bar, but Alcala had fled the scene. In 1971 he obtained a
counseling job at a New Hampshire arts camp for children.
In June 1971 Cornelia Michel Crilley, a 23-year-old
Trans World Airlines flight attendant, was found raped and
strangled in her Manhattan apartment. Her murder would
remain unsolved for the next 40 years when he pled guilty.
Later that summer two children attending the arts camp
noticed Alcala’s FBI wanted poster at the post office and
notified camp directors. He was arrested and extradited to
California. By then Tali Shapiro’s parents had relocated their
entire family to Mexico and refused to allow her to testify at
Alcala’s trial. Unable to convict him of rape and attempted
murder without their primary witness, prosecutors were
Robin Samsoe
In 2010, Marianne Connelly, center,
mother of Robin Samsoe
forced to permit Alcala to plead guilty to a lesser charge of
assault.
He was paroled after 34 months, in 1974, under the
“indeterminate sentencing” program popular at the time,
which allowed parole boards to release offenders as soon as
they demonstrated evidence of rehabilitation. Less than two
months later he was arrested after assaulting a 13-year-old
girl identified in court records as “Julie J.”, who had accepted
what she thought would be a ride to school. Once again he
was paroled after serving two years of an “indeterminate
sentence”.
In 1977, after his second release from prison, Alcala’s
Los Angeles parole officer took the unusual step of
permitting a repeat offender—and known flight risk—to
travel to New York City. NYPD cold-case investigators
now believe that a week after arriving in Manhattan, Alcala
killed Ellen Jane Hover, 23, daughter of the owner of Ciro’s,
a popular Hollywood nightclub and goddaughter of Dean
Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. Her remains were found buried
on the grounds of the Rockefeller Estate in Westchester
County.
Michel Crilley
Jill Barcomb
Georgia Wixted
In November of 1977, Alcala raped, sodomized and
murdered 18-year-old Jill Barcomb, beat her f ace in with
a rock, then strangled her to death by wrapping a belt
around her neck. He left Barcomb’s body in the Hollywood
foothills, posed on her knees with her face in the dirt.
One month later Alcala claimed his second murder
victim, Georgia Wixted, a 27-year-old nurse, who he raped
and sodomized. Alcala also used a claw hammer to sexually
assault Wixted and then used the claw end of the hammer
to beat her head in. Alcala then strangled Wixted to death
using a nylon stocking and left her body posed in her Malibu
apartment.
DENNIS DUANE WEBB
was sentenced to death in 1988
for torturing and killing a young
Atascadero couple. On the night of
Feb. 4, 1987, Webb broke into the
home of John and Lori Rainwater,
devout Christians who managed a
14-unit lodge at 8750 El Camino
Real. The intent was to rob the
couple, prosecutors said during the
DENNIS DUANE
trial, but he spent the night beating
WEBB
and raping them.
John Rainwater, 25, was
bludgeoned five times in the back of the head. His wife,
22-year-old Lori Rainwater, was struck four times in the back
of the head. The wounds, which split their scalps to their
skulls, were possibly caused by pistol-whippings, a pathologist
testified. The couple's wrists and ankles were bound with
nylon stockings, duct tape and belts. They also were gagged.
The bonds were left on between 30 minutes and seven hours
and were so tight that they drew blood.
Somehow, the couple got partially loose around 6 a.m. and
ran, screaming, out of their home, only to be gunned down.
John Rainwater was shot in the chest from within a 2-foot
range. He was then shot in the back of the head. The head
wound killed Rainwater instantly. Lori Rainwater suffered one
gunshot wound — caused by a gun that possibly was touching
her head when fired. That wound caused an immediate loss of
consciousness and death within a few minutes.
Investigators found blood all over the interior of the
Rainwaters' two-bedroom home. Furnishings were knocked
over and scattered. Blood was discovered on a door, a desk,
a broken bookshelf, three walls, a curtain, the floor, a bed,
a coat and a child's playpen. Two trails of blood were found
leading from the front door of the home.
When authorities arrived at the lodge, they found the
Rainwater children, a 15-month-old girl and a 7-day-old baby
boy, underneath their mother's naked body. Although covered
with dirt and broken glass, the girl was not injured and the
boy had only slight scrapes to his head. The children lived
with relatives after their parents were killed. In 1988, a family
member said they were too young
to have suffered any psychological
damage from seeing their parents
gunned down.
Police did not have any
suspects in the case until Webb's
former girlfriend went to the police
approximately two months after the
slayings. Investigators said Webb
didn't act alone, and while they think
they know who his accomplice was,
they never had enough evidence
John and Lori
to bring a case to trial. The suspect
Rainwater
died while a patient at Patton State
Hospital.
During the sentencing phase of the trial, Webb got a
chance to speak — and shocked the courtroom when he
claimed responsibility for five other murders. He also asked
for the death penalty. "I'm not here because my conscience
is bothering me," he said. "I haven't got any remorse. I don't
care." At times during his testimony, Webb laughed. He also
took off his shirt and pointed out tattoos memorializing his
past killings.
Webb was convicted of burglary, robbery and two counts
of first-degree murder. He was not charged with sexual
assault, though prosecutors contended throughout the
trial that Webb raped Lori Rainwater and sodomized John
Rainwater. Just before the sentence was read, people in the
courtroom cried out, imploring Webb to reveal who else had
been involved in murdering the couple. Webb refused, but
hinted that he an accomplice when he said, "It's bad enough
that I have to ride this beef alone." In August 1988, Webb was
sentenced to die. He laughed when the verdict was read.
In the weeks after Rachel
Newhouse disappeared, Allan Krebs
says he remembers seeing missingperson fliers featuring her photo.
During a visit to San Luis Obispo
County, Allan Krebs said his son,
REX KREBBS
Rex, even asked him about the
fliers.“He come up to me one time
and he said, ‘What kind of guys do that, Dad?’ And I said, ‘A
no-good, piece-of- s---, son of a bitch.’ And he said, ‘Yeah, I
guess you’re right.’“
Allan Krebs didn’t know it at the time, but his son had
abducted and murdered Newhouse, a 20-year-old Cal Poly
student, in November 1998. “He told me later on the phone,
after he’d got arrested, that he was going to tell me,” Allan
Krebs said in a recent phone interview from his home in Idaho.
“But when he got that answer from me, he didn’t.”
Not long after Allan Krebs’ visit ended, Rex Krebs struck
again, abducting and killing Aundria Crawford, a 20-year-old
Cuesta College student.
While Allan Krebs said he feels betrayed by his son, his
son’s defense team painted the elder Krebs as the monster
who created the
monster. The defense
attorneys said years of
physical abuse by his
father – and neglect
by an alcoholic mother
who left him – caused
Rex Krebs to develop
twisted fantasies. Even
the lead prosecutor
Rachel
Aundria
thought the father
Newhouse
Crawford
mistreated his son. “His
father was one of the
meanest guys on the
planet – and took it out on his son,” said then-Deputy District
Attorney John Trice. Krebs’ mother also blames Rex’s father
– her ex-husband – who has a long criminal rap sheet of his
own. According to court records, Allan Krebs has convictions
for drug dealing and rape. “Everybody that knows us here
knows exactly where it came from,” said Connie Ridley.
from those who know
“The voters of California have continuously confirmed their support for keeping the death
penalty as an option for the most heinous of crimes. This measure will require death row
inmates, for the first time, to work and provide restitution to victims of their crimes or risk
losing privileges, like any other violent offender.” Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles County District
Attorney
“In 2012, opponents of the death penalty argued that it should be abolished to save taxpayers
the enormous cost associated with prolonged delays. Fortunately, California voters realized
the hypocrisy of the criminal defense lawyers whose obstructive tactics were in fact creating
such delays. Enough is enough. It’s time we start talking about the impact on victims and their
families. This initiative will do just that by bringing common sense reforms to a broken system.”
Mike Ramos, San Bernardino County District Attorney
“The death penalty is reserved for the worst of the worst--mass murderers, cop killers, serial
killers and those who rape and murder children. Obtaining the death penalty is a rare event-less than 2% of all murder cases--and should remain a rare event. But the option to seek
the death penalty should remain so a just and fair sentence can be imposed.” Anne Marie
Schubert, Sacramento County District Attorney
“In 2012, Californians overwhelmingly reaffirmed their support for the death penalty. In its current state it
has become ineffective because of waste, delays, and inefficiencies. Fixing it will save California taxpayers
millions of dollars every year, assure due process protections for those sentenced to death and promote
justice for murder victims and their families.” Kermit Alexander, Initiative Proponent, Crime Victim
Survivor
“We all agree that California’s current death penalty process is not working. This initiative will
implement common sense reforms to enforce the sentence that California voters, at the 2012
election, told us they wanted to keep for the state’s worst murderers. It will also provide longoverdue justice for the families of hundreds of murder victims.” Scott Jones, Sacramento
County Sheriff
“Many good men and women who helped solve my daughter Polly’s case have quietly passed since
her murderer was sentenced to death row 18 years ago. Should the appeals process for Polly’s killer
be exhausted there is a small, but determined group of individuals who will continue to lobby on
his behalf. They decry the death penalty. They have successfully denied the law and subverted the
will of the people of California for far too long. We need to exert our will and demand that justice
be served. It has become apparent that this will never be accomplished through the California state
legislature. Join me in supporting the Death Penalty Reform & Savings Coalition.” Marc Klass,
Victims’ Rights Advocate
the facts
Voters support reform of California’s death penalty. It has become
ineffective because of waste, delays, and inefficiencies. Fixing it
will save California taxpayers millions of dollars every year, assure
due process protections for those sentenced to death and promote
justice for murder victims and their families. Death row inmates
have murdered over 1000 victims, including 226 children and 43
police officers; 294 victims were raped and/or tortured. It’s time
California reformed our death penalty process so it works. This
initiative will ensure justice for both victims and defendants by:
Reforming the Appeals Process
• Expand the pool of available defense attorneys.
• Require that a defendant who is sentenced to death be
appointed a lawyer at the time of sentence, rather than waiting
for years just to get a lawyer.
• A defendant’s claim of actual innocence should not be limited,
but frivolous and unnecessary claims should be restricted.
Reforming Death Row Housing and Victim
Restitution
• According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, eliminating single
cell housing of death row inmates will save tens of millions of
dollars every year.
• Death row inmates should be required to work in prison and
to pay restitution to their victims’ families consistent with the
Victims’ Bill of Rights (Marsy’s law). Refusal to work and pay
restitution should result in loss of special privileges.
Reforming the Appointment of Appellate Counsel
and Agency Oversight
• Reforming the existing inefficient appeals process for death
penalty cases will ensure fairness for both defendants
and victims. Capital defendants wait 5 years or more for
appointments of their appellate lawyer. By providing prompt
appointment of attorneys, the defendant’s claims will be heard
sooner.
• The state agency that is supposed to expedite secondary
review of death penalty cases is operating without any effective
oversight, causing long delays and wasting taxpayer dollars.
California Supreme Court oversight of this state agency will
ensure accountability.
Initiative Title and Summary
The Attorney General of California
has prepared the following title and
summary of the chief purpose and
points of the proposed measure:
DEATH PENALTY. PROCEDURES.
INITIATIVE STATUTE. Changes
procedures governing state court
appeals and petitions challenging
death penalty convictions and
sentences. Designates superior
court for initial petitions and limits
successive petitions. Imposes time
limits on state court death penalty
review. Requires appointed attorneys
who take noncapital appeals to accept
death penalty appeals. Exempts prison
officials from existing regulation
process for developing execution
methods. Authorizes death row inmate
transfers among California state
prisons. States death row inmates
must work and pay victim restitution.
States other voter approved measures
related to death penalty are null
and void if this measure receives
more affirmative votes. Summary of
estimate by Legislative Analyst and
Director of Finance of fiscal impact on
state and local government: Increased
state costs that could be in the tens
of millions of dollars annually for
several years related to direct appeals
and habeas corpus proceedings, with
the fiscal impact on such costs being
unknown in the longer run. Potential
state correctional savings that could
be in the tens of millions of dollars
annually. (15-0096.)
coalition
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MICHAEL A. RAMOS
Campaign Co-Chair, District
Attorney, San Bernardino
ANNE MARIE SCHUBERT
Campaign Co-Chair, District
Attorney, Sacramento
RUSS COLVIN
President & CEO. North
American Self Storage Group
MIKE DURANT
President, PORAC
JOSEPH ESPOSITO
Los Angeles County, Asst.
District Attorney/Special Ops
McGREGOR SCOTT
Former US Attorney
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS
Krishna Abrams, Solano
Don Anderson, Lake
Kirk Andrus, Siskiyou
Lawrence Allen, Sierra
Steve Cooley, Former District
Attorney, Los Angeles
Dan Dow, San Luis Obispo
Bonnie Dumanis, San Diego
Birgit Fladager, Stanislaus
Dean Flippo, Monterey
Lisa Green, Kern
Eric Heryford, Trinity
Mike Hestrin, Riverside
David Hollister, Plumas
Candice Hooper, San Benito
Amanda Hopper, Sutter
Laura Krieg, Tuolomne
Jackie Lacey, Los Angeles
Pat Mcgrath, Yuba
Stacey Montgomery, Lassen
Cliff Newell, Nevada
Gilbert Otero, Imperial
Scott Owens, Placer
Mark Peterson, Contra Costa
Vern Pierson, El Dorado
John Poyner, Colusa
Tony Rackauckas, Orange
Mike Ramos, San Bernardino
Jeff Reisig, Yolo
Todd Riebe, Amador
Jeff Rosen, Santa Clara
Anne Marie Schubert,
Sacramento
Jan Scully, Former District
Attorney, Sacramento
Lisa Smittcamp, Fresno
Greg Totten, Ventura
Steve Wagstaffe, San Mateo
Tim Ward, Tulare
SHERIFFS
Lou Blanas, Former Sheriff,
Sacramento
Tom Bosenko, Shasta
Adam Christianson, Stanislaus
John D’agostini, El Dorado
Steve Dufor, Yuba
Bill Gore, San Diego
Dave Hencratt, Tehama
Sandra Hutchens, Orange
Scott Jones, Sacramento
Jim McDonnell, Los Angeles
John McGinness, Former
Sheriff, Sacramento
John McMahon, San Bernardino
Margret Mims, Fresno
Greg Munks, San Mateo
J. Paul Parker, Sutter
Ian Parkinson, San Luis Obispo
Ed Prieto, Yolo
Keith Royal, Nevada
Stan Sniff, Riverside
Donny Youngblood, Kern
ELECTED OFFICIALS
Pete Wilson, 36th Governor, CA
George Deukmejian, 35th
Governor, CA
Ed Royce, Congressman, 39th
District, Los Angeles, Orange
County
Mimi Walters, Congresswomen,
45th District, Orange County
Young Kim, Assemblywoman,
Orange County
Cathleen Galgiani, State
Senator, Sacramento, San
Joaquin, and Stanislaus
Counties
Jeff Stone, State Senator,
Riverside County
Harry Sidhu, Former City
Councilmember, Anaheim
ORGANIZATIONS
The Criminal Justice Legal
Foundation
Klaas Kids Foundation
San Diegans Against Crime
Justice for Homicide Victims
California District Attorneys
Assoc.
California Professional
Firefighters
Kern County Prosecutors
Los Angeles Assoc. of Deputy
District Attorneys
Riverside Assoc. of Deputy
District Attorneys
San Diego County Assoc. of
Deputy District Attorneys
PUBLIC SAFETY
Assoc. of Los Angeles Deputy
Sheriffs
Assoc. of Orange County
Deputy Sheriffs
Bakersfield Police Officers
Assoc.
CA Assoc. of Highway
Patrolman
CA Correctional Police Officers
Assoc.
CA Statewide Law Enforcement
Assoc.
Chula Vista Police Officers
Assoc.
Contra Costa County Deputy
Sheriffs Assoc.
Local 1613, National Border
Patrol Council
Long Beach Police Officers
Assoc.
Los Angeles County Police
Chiefs Assoc.
Los Angeles Police Protective
League
Los Angeles Professional Peace
Officers Assoc.
Oceanside Police Officers
Assoc.
Peace Officer Research Assoc.
of CA (PORAC)
Riverside Deputy Sheriffs
Assoc.
Sacramento Deputy Sheriffs
Assoc.
Sacramento Law Enforcement
Managers Assoc.
San Bernardino County Safety
Employees Benefit Assoc.
San Diego Deputy Sheriffs
Assoc.
San Diego Police Officers
Assoc.
San Francisco Police Officers
Assoc.
San Jose Police Officers Assoc.
San Mateo County Deputy
Sheriffs Assoc.
Santa Ana Police Officers
Assoc.
Ventura County Deputy Sheriffs
Assoc.
CRIME VICTIMS,
SUPPORTERS AND
COMMUNITY LEADERS
Kermit and Tami Alexander
David Akinaga
Tony Andrade
Mike Boehm
Jane and Bill Bouffard
James Bozajian
Andi Bridges
Colene and Gary Campbell
Brenda Daly
Richard Faria
Dawn Hall
Maury Hannigan, Former CHP
Commissioner
Michele Hanisee
Kevin Kiley, Assistant Attorney
General
Mark Klaas
Phyllis Loya
John McAuliffe
John Peters
Christine Proffitt
Elliot Rouff
Anne Stendel
James Wichmann
Matt Wilmes
Partial List
leadership
MICHAEL A. RAMOS was elected
as San Bernardino County District
Attorney in 2002 after serving as
a Deputy District Attorney since
1989 where he worked in general
prosecution, the narcotics unit and
then the Major Crimes Unit for 4
years. In 2011 he was elected to the
represent the State of California on the
National District Attorneys Association
Board and will serve as Chairman beginning in 2016.
Mike has also been an outspoken advocate against
Human Trafficking at the local and state level. In 2009,
he responded to this problem of human trafficking in San
Bernardino County and created a unique countywide
Coalition Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE). The coalition
brought together a partnership of county departments
including the District Attorney’s Office, Sheriff’s Department,
Probation Department, County Superintendent of Schools,
Department of Children and Family Services, Public Defender
and Department of Behavioral Health, to raise awareness of
this issue, and to provide enhanced county and community
resources to victims.
Since that time, Mike campaigned heavily in favor of
Proposition 35 which voters overwhelmingly passed in
2012 and created a Human Trafficking Prosecution Unit.
In an effort to further reduce the demand for victims of
human trafficking, he also began releasing the names and
photographs of defendants convicted of solicitation in San
Bernardino County.
During his tenure, Mike has also added a Public Integrity
Unit to handle political corruption and a Lifer Parole Hearing
Unit to ensure that violent prisoners serve their maximum
prison terms, as well as a Major Crimes Against Children
Unit to to handle those cases involving our most defenseless
and vulnerable crime victims and a Crimes Against Peace
Officers Unit (CAPO) to deter, prosecute, and punish those
who attack, threaten, or interfere with our law enforcement
officers.
ANNE MARIE SCHUBERT was
elected as Sacramento County’s
District Attorney in 2014 and is a
career prosecutor with over 25 years
of law enforcement experience. As the
Sacramento County District Attorney
Schubert has prosecuted some of the
area’s most notorious and dangerous
criminals – murderers, rapists and
child molesters. She has also created innovative programs
for the District Attorney’s Office focused on catching killers
and criminals using DNA evidence, helping the children of
our community by combating truancy, and honoring those
citizens who have provided service to justice with the
development of the annual Outstanding Citizen Awards.
Anne Marie has received the Prosecutor of the Year Award
and the POST ICI Instructor of the Year Award. One of Anne
Marie’s passions is the pursuit of justice through forensic
DNA evidence and cold case prosecution. She formed the
DA’s Cold Case Prosecution Unit in 2002, and served as its
first prosecutor. She is nationally recognized as a forensic
DNA expert.
JOSEPH ESPOSITO joined the
Los Angeles County District Attorney’s
Office in 1989 and is currently a
member of District Attorney Jackie
Lacey’s Executive Management
Team. During his 26 years being a
prosecutor he has served as a felony
trial deputy in Central Trials, the
Hardcore Gang Division and the Hate
Crimes Suppression Unit. He has also served as Special
Assistant to the Director of Central Operations, Assistant
Head Deputy of the Hardcore Gang Division, Head Deputy
of the Major Narcotics Division, Director for the Bureau
of Specialized Prosecutions and currently as the Assistant
District Attorney of Special Operations where he oversees
17 divisions of specially trained subject matter expert
prosecutors. As Assistant District Attorney, Joseph sits as
the Chair of the District Attorney’s Death Penalty Committee
where he is charged with the responsibility of evaluating
every death-eligible defendant for the appropriateness of
seeking life without the possibility of parole or death, and
is District Attorney Jackie Lacey’s designee on the Death
Penalty Reform Initiative Executive Committee. Additionally,
as Assistant D.A., Joseph oversees the District Attorney’s
Grand Jury Unit. In that capacity he reviews all deputy
district attorney requests to present cases before the Grand
Jury. In recognition of his professional accomplishments,
Joseph was awarded Prosecutor of the Decade by Justice
for Homicide Victims; California Prosecutor of the Year by
the California Narcotics Officers Association, and Deputy
District Attorney of the Month by the Association of Deputy
District Attorneys. Joseph has also been on the faculty
at Southwestern Law School since 1992 where he is CoDirector of the Trial Advocacy Honors Program.
leadership
RUSS COLVIN has been active for
more than three decades in real estate
investment, management, finance,
public service and business/non-profit
leadership. Mr. Colvin is President/
CEO of North American Self-Storage
Group, LLC, which operates a
national self-storage acquisition and
development platform. In his role as
President/CEO of North American
Self-Storage Group, Mr. Colvin directs the company’s overall
acquisition, development, capital raising, and operational
activities.
Mr. Colvin is also actively involved in community service
activities. Mr. Colvin is a life member of the Orange County
Sheriff’s Advisory Council. Previously, Mr. Colvin served on
the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Fire Department
Foundation, the RAND Corporation, the Los Angeles
County Sheriff’s Youth Foundation, the Los Angeles Police
Foundation, the Los Angeles Police Museum, the Los Angeles
Regional Food Bank, and Olive Crest Homes and Services for
Abused and Neglected Children.
In 2004, Mr. Colvin served as a Co-Chair of the
International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual
Convention in Los Angeles. In 2006, Mr. Colvin was awarded
the prestigious Jack Webb Award by the Los Angeles Police
Museum for his service to law enforcement. In 2007, Mr.
Colvin received the prestigious “Inspiration Award” from the
Hugh O’Brian Youth Foundation for his service to youth. In
2009, Mr. Colvin graduated from the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration Citizens Academy. From 2010-2012, Mr.
Colvin served as Chairman of the LAPD Medal of Valor
Awards. In 2011, Mr. Colvin served as Chairman of the Los
Angeles Police Museum Jack Webb Awards.
Mr. Colvin is a frequent speaker on the subject of
commercial real estate investment, distressed real estate, real
estate finance, and philanthropy. Mr. Colvin graduated cum
laude from Brandman University with a BA in Legal Studies.
MICHAEL DURANT is a Senior
Deputy Sheriff with Santa Barbara
County Sheriff’s Department. During
his more than 30 year career in Law
Enforcement, he has been assigned
to patrol, field training, investigations,
custody, transportation, public
information officer and has spent
many years in the canine unit. Durant
has conducted more than 100 canine demonstrations in
classrooms around Santa Barbara County.
Durant was first elected to the PORAC Board of
Directors representing the Tri-Counties Chapter of PORAC
in November of 2003. In 2005, Durant was elected
Vice President of PORAC. As Vice President of PORAC,
Durant put to use his public relations skills promoting the
recruitment and retention of associations and members of
PORAC.
In 2013 and 2015, Durant was unanimously elected
President of PORAC. Durant spends much of his time in
Sacramento, educating legislators about the tools necessary
for California law enforcement to be successful in their
mission to keep our communities safe. Durant has played an
integral part in the passage of numerous pieces of legislation
that have helped improve public safety.
MCGREGOR SCOTT has served
as a deputy district attorney in Contra
Costa County (1989-1997), as the
elected District Attorney of Shasta
County (1997-2003), and as the
United States Attorney for the Eastern
District of California (2003-2009). He
is presently a partner with the law firm
of Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe in the
firm’s Sacramento office where his practice focuses on white
collar criminal defense and corporate internal investigations.
As a prosecutor, Mr. Scott tried approximately 100 cases
to jury trial verdict, including murder and other serious and
violent crimes. While serving as the Shasta County District
Attorney, he led the death penalty decision making process
for the office and made the final decision whether to seek the
death penalty on several cases. In addition, he attended the
execution of Darrel Rich, the “Hilltop Rapist,” who abducted,
raped, and murdered several women and girls in Shasta
County in the late 1970s. As the United States Attorney,
Mr. Scott recommended to the Attorney General that the
Department of Justice seek the death penalty against two
inmates who killed a correctional officer.
In 2012, Mr. Scott served as the unofficial chair of the
coalition of victims, district attorneys, and law enforcement
officials who led the fight against Proposition 34, which
would have repealed the death penalty in California. In
response to the efforts of the coalition, California voters
rejected Proposition 34 and kept California’s death penalty as
an option for district attorneys, juries, and judges in dealing
with the worst of the worst murderers in the state.
As an elected District Attorney and a United States
Attorney, Mr. Scott has served in multiple leadership
positions, including serving on the California District
Attorneys’ Association Board of Directors and on the United
States Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.
REGIONAL
CO-CHAIRS
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Mike Hestrin
District Attorney,
Riverside County
Mike Ramos
District Attorney, San
Bernardino County
Tony Rackauckas
Russ Colvin
Lisa Smittcamp
Greg Totten
District Attorney,
Orange County
CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
Dan Dow
District Attorney, San
Luis Obispo County
Lisa Green
District Attorney, Kern
County
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
Anne Marie
Schubert
District Attorney,
Sacramento County
Steve Wagstaff
District Attorney, San
Mateo County
District Attorney,
Fresno County
President & CEO, North
American Self Storage
Group
District Attorney,
Ventura County
Tim Ward
District Attorney, Tulare
County
how you can help
o
o
o
o
o
I/We will endorse this effort. Please list as follows:
I/We will help collect signatures. Please send
petitions.
I/We would like to serve as a Campaign Finance Co-Chairman by giving and raising $25,000.
o There are no limits on contributions to initiative campaigns and I/We would like to contribute $
o I/we would like to contribute $
towards the goal and raise the balance of $
.
I/We would like to serve on the Finance Committee by giving and/or raising $10,000
o I/We would like to contribute $
and raise $
.
I/We would like to make a contribution of: o $ 1,000 o $ 500 o $ 250 o $ 100 o Other $
.
By submitting this form you hereby confirm that the following statements are true and accurate: 1) I am a United States citizen
or a permanent resident alien. 2) I am making this contribution from my own funds, and not those of another, and will not be
reimbursed by any other person.
Donor Type: o Individual(s):
Full name
Occupation
Employer
Spouse’s name (if joint contribution)
Occupation
Employer
Donor Type: o Company:
Company NameContact Person
Donor Type: o Political Committee or Other:
Entity Name (and ID# if applicable)
Contact Person
Street Address (No PO Box)
State
Office Phone
City
Home Phone
Fax
Zip
Email
Contributions to Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings are NOT TAX DEDUCTIBLE, ARE NOT SUBJECT TO ANY
CONTRIBUTION LIMITS and can be accepted from any source other than foreign nationals. Californians for Death Penalty
Reform and Savings is exempt from income tax under Internal Revenue Code section 501(c)(4).
Please make checks payable to and mail to: Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings
38 Executive Park, Suite 390, Irvine, CA 92614
FEIN: 45-5271895, FPPC ID # 1346266
For more information please call Anne Hyde Dunsmore at (949)474-0123 [email protected]
CREDIT CARD CONTRIBUTIONS CAN BE FAXED TO (949) 229-6285
(Circle one):
Name on Card (if business, include name of business)
Card Number
Exp. Date
$
Amount to Charge
3 or 4 digit security code
Billing Address, if different than above
Paid for by Californians for Death Penalty Reform and Savings Major funding by
Los Angeles Police Protective League Issues PAC and Peace Officers Research Association of California
Political Issues Committee (PORAC PIC)