Police said they were called to the Blue Fin Cafe and Billiards, 85 Cannery Row, shortly before 1:30 a.m.
Officers arrived to find three men suffering stab wounds, police said, and Frank Delgado, 32, and Anthony Paulsell, 24, both of Castroville, were arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Denise Barber, 77, never allowed the memory of her late brother Francis De Alvis to fade.
On Aug. 18, 1984, De Alvis was found dead in his apartment at 843 Hawthorne St. His killer was never identified, but police believe it was someone De Alvis knew.
“He was a good person, I can vouch to that,” Barber said.
The family was surprised to learn from police after her brother was killed that he frequented the Old Eros theater on Franklin Street and the Nu-Art adult book store on North Fremont Street, Barber said.
Cops to use modern forensics – finally.
New technology incorporated in the national forensic database has given renewed hope to Pacific Grove police that they will finally close the murder case.
“We have not forgotten about this,” Police Chief Darius Engles said. “It’s an active and open case.”
He (said investigators collected sufficient evidence, so new forensic techniques for identifying palm prints and DNA will catch up with the killer.
That evidence, he said, was submitted in July to the national DNA database. The process takes months, Engles said, but police expect results.
One of LighthouseAvenue.com’s premier edition articles. No progress was ever made and why nothing was mentioned in the paid media I don’t know. Prayers go out to the family of Richard Coleman.
Crime Stoppers of Monterey County is a volunteer organization that assists enforcement agencies by urging the public to call anonymously with information about criminals and crimes. The following account regards a murder that took place in Pacific Grove in 1995 of a young man who was known in the gay community.
On March 4, 1995 an unknown male called police about 9 p.m. to report what was discovered to be the body of Richard Graham Coleman III in Apt. A at 303 Grand Ave., Pacific Grove. He had been murdered.
Coleman’s body was found on the floor of the kitchen that Saturday night. There were signs of a struggle and indications of boxes and cupboards having been searched.
The victim had reported that the same apartment had previously been burglarized. Two days before the murder, he had moved to a motel room in Marina because he feared for his life.
Around eight last night, Pacific Grove Police responded to a medical emergency on the 2800 block of Forest Hill Boulevard. When Officers arrived, they found 96-year-old Charlotte Danvers lying on the floor, badly beaten. Police say she suffered traumatic injuries and died earlier this morning. Bill Speacht lives next door to the Danvers and he says this comes as a shock to the whole neighborhood.
“We did hear some screaming before and things like that, but I mean it wasn’t like a common occurrence, and that’s what I told police,” says Bill Speacht.
Police arrested Danvers’ daughter, 63-year-old Jean Danvers. Officers charged her with homicide and she was booked into the Monterey County Jail today. Neighbors say they didn’t know the family well.
Jean Danvers
More reports:
Hear-old
Cedar Street Times
Grasping..
A Soledad man charged in the 1997 slaying of a Peninsula youth told a judge Thursday that his defense has been hampered by the release of evidence by the Pacific Grove Police Department.
(Angel) Ruelas objected Thursday that there was no remedy for him to pursue sanctions against the police department for his inability to have the car tested for his defense.He alleged that the police department and FBI missed some “basic tire impressions” at the scene of the crime.
“What else did they miss?” he said.
Barring a successful appeal, John Kenney will die in prison for murdering neighbors Mel and Elizabeth Grimes in a dispute over a boulder and a 10-foot by 4-foot patch of dirt.
After nearly three days of deliberations, a jury Wednesday found the 74-year-old petroleum physicist guilty of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Elizabeth Grimes, 55, and second-degree murder for the slaying of her 58-year-old husband, well-known local defense attorney Mel Grimes.
Loosin’ Susan didn’t remember this
Monterey Herald 9/03/08
Pacific Grove attorney Susan Goldbeck testified that she did not remember whether she asked Kenney if he owned a gun before indicating on a court document that he didn’t.
Killer Kenney didn’t remember
Salinas Californian 8/30/08
Prosecutor Berkley Brannon repeatedly questioned him Friday about the gun used in the killings, a gun which was illegal for Kenney to possess. He had signed a 2005 restraining order against the Grimeses that declared he did not own or have access to any firearms.
Kenney told the court he didn’t remember that element of the document. “It was filled out entirely by Susan Goldbeck,” he testified, referring to his lawyer. “I just signed it.”
Loosin’ Susan filled out the statement – is he lying or she’s lying for him?
Monterey Herald 9/2/08
Pacific Grove attorney Susan Goldbeck testified this morning that she did not remember whether she asked murder defendant John Kenney if he owned a gun before indicating on a court document that he didn’t.
She agreed that Kenney signed the sworn document, filed as he and his neighbors, filed for mutual restraining orders in the summer of 2005.
Loosin’ Susan & Killer Kenney remember all this though
Carmel Pine Cone 9/5/08
Pacific Grove City Council candidate Susan Goldbeck took the stand as well, recounting Kenney’s stories about harassing phone calls in the middle of the night and people rattling his doors, which he believed were the Grimeses’ doing. According to Goldbeck, Kenney felt “alone and vulnerable,” especially after an incident in 2005 with Elizabeth Grimes that left him with a concussion.
Susan Goldbeck’s “friend”
Oh – they are both friends….
KION 9/02/08
Susan Goldbeck, a friend of Kenney’s who also happens to be an attorney also testified that she had prepared two requests for two restraining orders against the Grimes’ on Kenney’s behalf
One attorney said not to get into a confrontaion
Monterey Herald 9/3/08
An attorney testified Tuesday that he warned murder defendant John Kenney in 2006 that he should avoid confrontation with neighbors Mel and Elizabeth Grimes and that “you can’t shoot somebody just because they’re on your property.”
Nick Cvietkovich said the conversation occurred while he and Kenney were on the way to a meeting with Sheriff Mike Kanalakis about Kenney’s plans to use a boulder to block the Grimeses’ access to a disputed patch of land on their shared driveway.
Loosin Susan gave the advice to trigger a confrontation?
Monterey Herald – 8/28/08
John Kenney took the stand in his own defense this morning after listening stoically to enhanced 911 recordings of him fatally shooting neighbors Mel and Elizabeth Grimes.
In an action that triggered the fatal encounter, Kenney said he placed a boulder on a disputed piece of land on the advice of three attorneys, including former Pacific Grove City Councilwoman Susan Goldbeck.
Kenney’s security expert was none other than the former Marina City Councilman John Morrison, “who resigned in April 2007 from the Marina council after admitting he tried to pull strings to get a private security contract.”
, don’t vote for Loosin’ Susan.
After a closed-door hearing, Presiding Judge Russell Scott named retired Judge Philip Sarkisian to hear the case.
Ruelas and his younger brother, Angel Ruelas, are charged with stabbing 17-year-old Olinger and dumping him near the Pacific Grove Recreation Trail, where he was found dead on Sept. 19, 1997.
Prosecutors cannot seek capital punishment for Angel Ruelas, who was 17 at the time of the killing. He faces life in prison without possibility of parole if convicted in a separate trial before Curtis in October.
On the day the U.S. Supreme Court heard lawyers argue over the potential pain caused by the drug cocktail used in lethal injections, McMahan was thinking about the way her daughter died.
On Sept. 7, 1989, 31-year-old Kim Hickman was moving out of her Pacific Grove apartment when she was attacked and sexually assaulted by Kristin William Hughes, then 28.
At Hughes’ trial the next year, McMahan suffered through evidence showing that her “absolutely vibrant, beautiful daughter” survived 11 stabs to the chest and neck and died only after Hughes strangled her with his hands and suspenders.
Nineteen years – too long.
In Joseph Cupita’s last moments, his live-in companion was kneeling on his chest, suffocating him, and smothering his face with a pillow as the 81-year-old man grappled for his life, according to a picture painted by a prosecutor during a preliminary hearing for Lynne Nicole Feurer on Friday.
Prosecutor Elaine McCleaf presented witnesses who said tiny hemorrhages in Cupita’s face and chest areas showed he died of asphyxiation. Bite wounds on his hands and arms and scratches from his own fingernails on his face indicated he was trying to fight off his attacker when he died. There was also blood on his pillow, according to testimony.
