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Vote for the most notorious case 24 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
We started the 50 notorious cases blog on Nov. 2 to mark the 120th birthday of Orange County. The end of the year is a time for taking stock, and we wanted to know how modern day sensibilities would r...
Day 52: Popular three-time elected sheriff convicted of witness tampering 23 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
2007: Former Sheriff Mike Carona, Orange County’s top law enforcement official, was indicted in October 2007, tried and convicted of federal witness tampering charges after he was secretly tape-record...
Day 51: Yacht owners tied to an anchor and thrown overboard – for money 22 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
2004: The thing about the Skylar Deleon case is that people cannot comprehend or imagine the callousness, cruelty and horror of tying a couple to an anchor and throwing them overboard while they were...
Day 50: A videotaped sexual assault on a pool table by a millionaire’s kid and his two cronies 22 Dec 2009 | 07:57 am
2002: Teenagers Gregory Haidl, Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner were tried twice for sexually-assaulting a 16-year-old acquaintance on a pool table in July 2002 while they mocked the girl and captured ...
Day 50: A videotaped sexual assault on a pool table by a millionaire’s kid and his two cronies 21 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
2002: Teenagers Gregory Haidl, Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner were tried twice for sexually-assaulting a 16-year-old acquaintance on a pool table in July 2002 while they mocked the girl and captured ...
Day 49: A 5-year-old girl sexually assaulted and murdered but her tears help find her killer 20 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
2002: Alejandro Avila was sentenced to death on July 22, 2006 after a lengthy trial for the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of 5-year-old Samantha Runnion in July 2002. Samantha Runnion, Aleja...
Day 48: A Bible-reading pot-smoker gets death for ambushing a deputy sheriff 19 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
Maurice Steskal 1999: Maurice Steskal, a Bible-reading, marijuana-smoking ex-convict with a lifelong hatred of cops, was sentenced to death Feb. 6, 2004 for the assault-rifle ambush of Orange County ...
Day 46: A ‘routine’ traffic stop leads to the murder of a patrolman 19 Dec 2009 | 05:54 am
1996: California Highway Patrolman Don Burt had it all going on — a new wife he adored, a baby on the way and the career he always wanted. But while on patrol on July 13, 1996, he stopped a BMW for dr...
Day 47: Pedophile dismembers his 12-year-old molest victim and buries him in cement 18 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
Juan Delgado 1998: John Samuel Ghobrial, an Egyptian national and a panhandler, was sentenced to death April 2, 2002 for molesting and dismembering Juan Delgado, a 12-year-old La Habra boy in March 1...
Day 46: A ‘routine’ traffic stop leads to the murder of a patrolman 17 Dec 2009 | 11:00 pm
1996: California Highway Patrolman Don Burt had it all going on — a new wife he adored, a baby on the way and the career he always wanted. But while on patrol on July 13, 1996, he stopped a BMW for d...
