The Octopus Conspiracy: One Woman’s Search for Her Father’s Killer
February 9th, 2011Via: Wired:
On the morning of July 1, 1981, three bodies were discovered behind a shabby, concrete ranch house on Bob Hope Drive, a main drag in a sand-swept stretch of California’s scorching Coachella Valley. The corpses were sprawled in a semicircle, on chairs and beds that had been dragged into the backyard. Each of the victims—the house’s owner, Fred Alvarez, his girlfriend, Patricia Castro, and a guest named Ralph Boger—had been killed by a single .38-caliber gunshot to the head. Police surmised that Alvarez and his friends had been planning to sleep outdoors to escape the heat of the house, which had no air-conditioning, and were surprised in the dark by one or more assailants. There were few clues and no witnesses left at the scene; the crime had all the hallmarks of a professional hit.
Dear Rachael,
Your father would be proud of you and all that you have done to determine the causes of his death. My thoughts are with you. I hope you find and expose his killer’s in your lifetime. It is a rare thing to bring people to justice and be witness to it. But I think that given enough rope, all evildoer’s hang themselves. We however, might be around to witness their end.