Tahoe27 wrote:I've always thought Faraday and Jensen were a Zodiac crime.
But in the interest of study and curiosity I decided to look into the June 3, 1969 murder of a gas station attendant committed by four boys to see if there were any similarities to the Lake Herman crime. This is what I found:
Oakland Tribune 6-4-1969
"Booked for investigation of murder.... David Luis Magris 21, Matthew F Donohoe 27: his brother Robert S Donohoe 18, and
Michael J Schwerdtfeger 22 all of Vallejo."
San Mateo Times 6-3-69
"Steve Tompkins of Vallejo, attendant at a station adjacent to interstate 80, was robbed shortly after 2 am by four youths police said.
He was forced into their car at gunpoint, taken 3 miles on a back road, dumped out of the car into a roadside ditch and killed by 5 shots from a M1 rifle."
Excerpts from a more current article,
Daily Herald 5-23-1996:
Magris went out with 3 aquaintances, celebrating his 21 birthday with a one-night crime spree, Dennis Tapp,then 26, was working the graveyard shift at his fathers gas station in vallejo.
"Two men came up to the service station and knocked on the door", Tapp recalls. "They asked for the keys to the bathroom, I said 'Bathrooms open."
The next thing he new he was looking down the barrel of a sawed-off carbine.
"I opened the safe. I gave them my wallet" Tapp says, "They said turn around. I turned around and felt the first bullet hit me right in the middle of the back. Another bullet hit me in the right shoulder and I was paralyzed from the waist down."...
...."Tapp was the second victim that night. Magris and his cronies had first stopped at another gas station where they ordered attendant Steven Tompkins to fill a bag with money and then abducted him and drove to the out skirts of town. There, one of Magris' accomplices fired several shots in Tompkins' back. Like Tapp, the 20 year old Tompkins was left for dead. Unlike Tapp, he did not survive."
Oakland Tribune 11-21-1969
Fairfield- A Solano County Superior Court jury recommends death penalties for two men convicted of murder during a gasoline station holdup.
Jurors returned their verdict last night against Michael Schwerdtfeger,23, and David L. Magris,21, both of Vallejo."....
*side note: The death penalty was outlawed by the Supreme Court in 1972, so 107 inmates including Magris and Schwerdtfeger were moved off death row. Magris was paroled in 1985 and has since talked to his victim Dennis Tapp. He and Tapp are both against the death penalty.
Just found this article about David Margis and his victim Dennis Tapp:
Unlikely Allies Join Execution Foes at Prison
http://articles.latimes.com/1992-04-21/ ... th-penalty 
Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2014 10:14 am