Bookshop Santa Cruz Author Talk, March 31, 2022
Reviews
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“An enlightening compilation of interviews, presented in an interesting format. Emerson Murray’s “Murder Capital of the world” has put together a vast amount of information from the many people involved or affected by the three murderers that plagued our small coastal county in California, in the early 1970s. He has captured the insights of law enforcement officers and how the crimes affected them and the friends and families of the suspects and victims. Very insightful, thorough and comprehensive!”
— Mickey Aluffi, retired Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff
“I had the chance to read an advanced copy and this book is simply terrific. Many new information and details about the Kemper case. Direct quotes from his mother, his father and his older sister are quite revealing. Many new pictures of Kemper during the trial and a never-seen-before mugshot of young Kemper. Kemper researchers will be thrilled by this book as it enriches his story quite a lot. We will do an official review when the book comes out this Spring.”
— Christine Falco, edmundkemperstories.com
From Readers
“It's like a written version of a Ken Burns documentary. Fantastic job. I've read quite a few True crime books, and I'm putting this up with Helter Skelter and The Devil in the White City.”
— Doug G.
“Was in high school when all this was happening. Really scary times!
I’ve read all the other books on this subject. None come close to how amazing this book is!
I have learned new information that was never published before.
The book is formatted and put together in a way that is easy to read and understand. It is respectful to all of the victims, families, law enforcement and anyone else that was personally touched by these horrendous times.
Thanks Emerson Murray for your dedication and hard work in telling the stories of some dark history of our little town, in a clear and comprehensive way.”
— Karen T
Who is quoted in the book?
(in order of appearance. An * denotes that I interviewed them personally)
Peter Chang: Santa Cruz County District Attorney
Mickey Aluffi: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff*
Edmund Kemper
Ward Damio: Author
William Kelsay: Santa Cruz County Assistant District Attorney
Terry Medina: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff*
Randall Kane: Owner, The Catalyst
Austin Comstock: Santa Cruz attorney*
Harold Cartwright: Investigator, Santa Cruz Public Defender’s Office*
James Jackson: Santa Cruz Public Defender*
Herbert Mullin*
Gary Hamby: Childhood friend of Frazier
Roger Krone: Neighbor of Frazier*
Joe Cole: Neighbor of Frazier
Delores Frazier: Wife of John Linley Frazier
Chris Cottle: Santa Cruz County Assistant District Attorney*
Richard Koch: Childhood friend of Mullin*
Dick Verbrugge: Investigator, Santa Cruz District Attorney’s Office*
Jim Conner: Santa Cruz Police Officer*
Paul Dougherty: Santa Clara County Criminalist*
Forrest Robinson: Friend and co-worker with Clarnell Strandberg*
Joey Tranchina: Photographer*
Werner Herzog: Filmmaker
Errol Morris: Filmmaker
Robert Ludlow: Santa Cruz attorney*
Clarnell Strandberg: Kemper’s mother
Edmund Kemper Jr.: Kemper’s father
David Dozier: Childhood neighbor of Kemper*
William Helms: Chief Deputy, Madera Police Department
Barry Burt: Mullin classmate and local*
Lynn Scott: High school friend of Dean Richardson and Jim Gianera*
Jeff Esposito: High school friend of Herbert Mullin and Dean Richardson
Charmaine Falcon: Friend of Jim Gianera*
Holly Harman: Friend of Jim and Joan Gianera*
Sam Robustelli: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff*
Douglas Liddicoat: Friend of Dr. Ohta
Louis Wileman: Associate of Dr. Ohta
Lark Ohta*
Ami Chandler: Neighbor of the Ohta
David Cadwallader: Brother-in-law of Dorothy Cadwallader*
Melinda Cadwallader: Daughter of Dorothy Cadwallader*
David Marlowe: Psychologist
Donald Lunde: Psychiatrist
Karen Weigel: Employee of Dr. Ohta
Pete Amos: Photographer, Santa Cruz Sentinel*
Pat O’Brien: Newscaster for KPIX television
Ted Pound: Fire Chief
Marj Von B: Journalist
Doug James: Santa Cruz County Sheriff
Kenneth Pittenger: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff
Dave Alcorn: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff*
Roger Murray: My dad*
Louis Keller: Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Office Administration
Paul Tara: Santa Cruz County Undersheriff
Pat Pascal: John Linley Frazier’s mother
Sandra Bryson: Frazier Parole Board Presiding Commissioner
Michael Rugg: Neighbor of John Linley Frazier and owner/operator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum*
John Linley Frazier
Allison Ayers: Friend and roommate of John Linley Frazier
Floyd Weber: Scotts Valley reserve police officer
June Aries: Ex-mother-in-law of John Linley Frazier’s wife, Delores
Michael Stebbins: Owner of Performance West
Mike Wark: Friend of John Linley Frazier
Mike Lee: Reporter KPIX
Henry Mello: Santa Cruz County Supervisor
Dan Forbus: Santa Cruz County Supervisor
Ernest Wicklund: Santa Cruz Mayor
Dan Righettin: Reporter, Santa Cruz Sentinel
Geno Pini: Santa Cruz Police Chief
Clark Kerr: University of California President
Byron Stookey Jr.: UCSC Director of Academic Planning
John Fiorovich: Country Cousin’s Sporting Goods
Pat Liteky: Santa Cruz County Supervisor
Charles Franich: Judge
Rod Sanford: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff
Walt Weiskopf: Frazier’s neighbor
Kimberly Weiskopf: Frazier’s neighbor
Michael Madden: Frazier’s neighbor
Don Stewart: Mullin’s boxing coach
Sam Munoz: Jury Room owner
Robert Kinsey: Psychiatrist
Skaidrite Rubene-Koo: Aiko Koo’s mother
Edmund Kemper’s fiance*
Barney Barnett: Journalist
Bob Lee: Santa Cruz County District Attorney
Nancy Guilfoyle: Mary Guilfoyle’s sister-in-law*
Bill Tubbs: Private investigator
Paula Johns: UCSC assistant professor
Forrest Schall: Brother of Cynthia Schall*
Jeff Towle: Friend of Mary Guilfoyle
William Friedland: UCSC Senior Preceptor
Cameron Smith: UCSC student
Mike Prizmich: Mullin Parole Board Presiding Commissioner
Ronald Rico: Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney
Edward McGowan: Los Gatos Police Officer
Cynthia Schall: Victim of Kemper. Excerpt from a letter to her father
C. Gilbert: Santa Cruz Police Officer
Chuck Scherer: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff
Eleanor Foster: Joan Gianera’s mother
George Gianera: Jim Gianera’s brother
Robert Francis: Kathleen Francis’ husband
Steven Houtz: Francis family neighbor
Thatcher Hall Clark: Francis family neighbor
Charles Morris: Psychiatrist
William Henry Mitchell: Doctor. Performed autopsies
Hans Dibbern: Doctor. Performed autopsies
James Sheridan: Santa Cruz Police Officer
Harold Klonecky: Principal of Torrance High
James Liu: Alice Liu’s father
Wendy Thorpe: Rosalind Thorpe’s sister*
Duane Gull: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff
Earl Fox: Chief of Police, Fleetwood, Pennsylvania
Lothair Dreibelbis: Father of Mark Dreibelbis
Ditta Oliker: Mother of David Oliker
Jeffrey Card: Brother of Brian Scott Card
Jean Everice Carter: Doctor. Performed autopsies
Fred Spector: Robert Spector’s uncle
John Perez: Son of Fred Perez*
Joan Stagnaro: Neighbor of Fred Perez
Sean Upton: Santa Cruz Police Officer
Richard Foerster: Santa Cruz Police Officer
William Mullin: Herbert Mullin’s father
Jean Mullin: Herbert Mullin’s mother
Don Smythe: Santa Cruz Deputy Sheriff
Marilyn Baker: KQED news host
Gene Dawson: Reverent, Drug Abuse Preventive Center
Dee Shafer: Psychologist
Raymond Koch: Neighbor of Herbert Mullin*
Tim Crump: Neighbor of Herbert Mullin*
Pat Bocca: Sister of Herbert Mullin
Maxine White: SLV counselor
John J. O’Connor: Priest and Mullin family friend
Doug Monroe: Santa Cruz Police Officer
J. Bonar: Santa Cruz Corrections Officer
Bonnie Ring: UCSC Lecturer and friend of Rosalind Thorpe
Robert Edgar: UCSC Provost and friend of Alice Liu
Susan Swanson: Sister of Edmund Kemper
Allyn Kemper: Sister of Edmund Kemper
Carla Gervasoni: Neighbor of Kemper
Douglas Roth: Friend of Kemper
F.M. Glenn Wilson: UCSC Provost
Cesar Barber: UCSC Vice Chancellor
Mercedes Tileston: Social Worker, Atascadero
Arthur Reichstadt: Social Worker, Atascadero
S. Solomon: Doctor, Atascadero
Cleo Taylor: Social Worker, Atascadero
Richard Auwaerter: Psychologist, Atascadero
John Stroud: Psychiatric Consultant, Atascadero
David O’Neil: Psychology Intern, Atascadero
David Martinez: Pueblo Police Officer
James McCoy: Pueblo Police Officer
Robert Mayber: Pueblo Chief of Police
Robert Silva: Pueblo Police Officer
Edward Lawrence: Friend of Mullin
Joel Fort: Psychiatrist
Kenneth Springer: Mullin jury foreman
Walter Rappaport: Psychiatrist
Harry Brauer: Judge
Susan Felix: Wife of Dr. Morton Felix*
Ariadne Symons: Santa Cruz Deputy District Attorney
John Douglas: F.B.I. Behavioral Science Unit