Thursday, June 12
Thursday, June 12By the next morning, the mood in the operations center was disintegrating. The serial killer had struck again; a hiker was found dead on the trail in Azusa Canyon, her throat slit. But the novelty of the multiple cases in the mountains was wearing off, and the L.A. Times had sicced an ambitious young reporter onto the island’s case.
L.A.TimesSECOND MURDER ON CATALINA, trumpeted the Times.
TimesNO ANSWERS IN DEATH OF DEVELOPER, reported the first sub-head.
FELL OR WAS PUSHED? inquired the article’s second sub.
“Sheesh,” Price grumbled. “Don’t they have anything better to do with all that space?”
He read from the article, “A leading scientist with Catalina Island’s prestigious Island Conservancy was found dead in his home Wednesday morning. The Los An
