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Pasadena man Heber Enoc Diaz charged with capital murder of 76-year-old Arcadia woman Chyong Jen Tsai. Also charged were Luis Alonso Cruz Gaitan of Altadena and Isis Ondina Villalobos of Pasadena as accessories after the fact.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35538
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 27, 2019
Pages
p. 12
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
June 27, 2019
Pages
p. 12
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Diaz, Heber Enoc
Gaitan, Luis Alonso Cruz
Murders
Tsai, Chyong Jen
Villalobos, Isis Ondina
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A 90-year-old woman was found dead in her Arcadia home, an apparent murder victim.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1380
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder
Item ID
1379AN
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41-year-old female Xiaolin Li, a resident of Arcadia, was stabbed and murdered on January 7, 2014 at an apartment in the 900 block of Arcadia Avenue. The arrested suspect was identified as the victim's father-in-law Li Zhu, a 68-year-old resident of Arcadia. The motive appears to be related to an on-going dispute within the family. The victim and suspect resided together.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33720
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 18
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
January 9, 2014
Pages
p. 1, 18
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Deaths
Li, Xiaolin
Li, Zhu
Murders
Item ID
33916AN
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Obituary/death notice. Lillian Lehman, 90, was found dead in her home. She may have been a murder victim.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28183
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 24, 1988
Pages
p. A1
Announcement Type
Obituary or death notice
Subjects
Lehman, Lillian
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
28377AN
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Newspaper Index
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Two shot to death Wednesday morning, August 1, in the alley near 816 Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Los Angeles Sheriff Department says it looks like a murder-suicide. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the second victim later died at hospital from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Later identified as Mel Liu and Cherry Liu, an estranged married couple.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35245
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 2, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35434AN
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Police are looking into possible connections between 2 murders of elderly women that occurred January 7. Lillian Lehman, 91, was found dead at her Fashion Park Villas condominium in Arcadia, while Dora Peyton, 78, was beaten to death at her Duarte home.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1381
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1988
Pages
p. A-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1988
Pages
p. A-2
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Lehman, Lillian
Item ID
1380AN
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Hunt continues for gunman in Arcadia car-to-car shooting on the 210 Freeway near Baldwin Avenue which left a woman named Betty Hernandez, 36, of Monrovia, dead. This shut down the freeway for several hours on September 4. On September 5, two people were found dead, in the block of 600 West Huntington Drive, an apparent murder-suicide. Both victims were in their 50s.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36048
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 9, 2021
Pages
p. 13
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 9, 2021
Pages
p. 13
Subjects
Crimes and criminals
Deaths
Hernandez, Bertha
Hernandez, Betty
Murder-suicide
Shootings
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Brian Snoke, sentenced to life in prison for three murders, claims he was a victim of child abuse.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1387
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 22, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 22, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Snoke, Brian
Item ID
1386AN
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Suspect in Arcadia murder-suicide leaves son a note. Couple was going through contentious divorce. Couple was identified as Mel Liu, 49, and Cherry Liu, 50 year old. Mel Liu left a letter to their 14 year old son trying to explain the fatal steps he took. Cherry Liu was well known through her work at Arcadia Chamber of Commerce and Sierra Madre Senior Services.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35251
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
August 9, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Liu, Cherry
Liu, Mel
Murder-suicide
Item ID
35440AN
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Full account of the murder of Oakwood housewife Mrs. Rene Kane, wife of attorney Robert Kane. Two accounts of murder have been filed; one for Mrs. Kane and one for her unborn child.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1350
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 9, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 9, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Kane, Rene
Item ID
1349AN
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Emery Riddle has been convicted of first degree murder in the December 1976 slaying of Arcadian Rene Kane and her unborn child.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1352
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 29, 1977
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 29, 1977
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Kane, Rene
Murder - Riddle, Emery
Item ID
1351AN
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Newspaper Index
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LASD Homicide Assisting Arcadia Police Department With Murder Suicide Investigation. Husband, a 75-year-old and wife, a 68-years-old, are described as Asian and found dead in their home on the 500 block of Los Altos in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35816
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 9, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 9, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Murder-suicide
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Brian Lawrence Snoke, a 24-year-old Arcadia man, was found guilty of three murders in an attempt to assume control of a lucrative cocaine sales network.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1384
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 9, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
March 9, 1988
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Murder - Snoke, Brian
Item ID
1383AN
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20-year-old man Jason Scott Gustin found guilty of attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend in Arcadia. On August 22, 2016, according to testimony at trial, Gustin met near Arcadia and sat in his car to talk when he pulled out a knife and slashed her throat and then began strangling her. As the victim tried to escape, he stabbed her multiple times. She ran away to a nearby convalescent home. He was arrested a short time later after he showed up at his mother’s workplace in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35297
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 11, 2018
Pages
p. 1, 11
Subjects
Gustin, Jason Scott
Crime and Criminals
Item ID
35486AN
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Murder suspect Deyun "Jeff" Shi appears in court on April 18, 2016 to face arraignment in the brutal slayings of his two nephews William Lin and Anthony Lin, on January 22, 2016. The arraignment was delayed until May 2. Shi was extradited to the U.S. from Hong Kong on April 15.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34552
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 21, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 14
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 21, 2016
Pages
p. 1, 14
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Lin, Anthony
Lin, William
Murders
Shi, Deyun aka Shi, Jeff
Tsai, Rose
Item ID
34738AN
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Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner has identified the 23-yearold Hispanic male killed at an August 31 house party on the 2800 block of Caroline Way in Arcadia as Gustavo Lopez.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35843
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 10, 2020
Pages
p. 3
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 10, 2020
Pages
p. 3
Subjects
Deaths
Lopez, Gustavo
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The family of Cathy LaCorte successfully blocked the parole of Richard Johnson who murdered Cathy and her boyfriend Bob Morton at Chantry Flat in 1976.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25770
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 1996
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 24, 1996
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
LaCorte, Cathy
Morton, Bob
Johnson, Richard
Murder
Item ID
25970AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia High School senior Patricia Tsai has been awarded $2,000 as a National Merit Scholar.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3546
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 5, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
May 5, 1991
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Tsai, Patricia
Item ID
3427AN
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Arcadia sexual assault suspect identified with DNA evidence on October 15. Warrant obtained for suspect’s arrest. The sexual assault occurred September 8 in the 2300 block of S. Santa Anita Avenue. Suspect has been identified as 27 year old El Monte resident Robert Anthony Padilla.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35310
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 18, 2018
Pages
p, 1, 11
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
October 18, 2018
Pages
p, 1, 11
Subjects
Crime and Criminals
Sexual assaults
Padilla, Anthony
Item ID
35499AN
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An 18-year-old male was stabbed to death at a strip mall in the 1300 block of S. Golden West Avenue in Arcadia. Juan Lorenzo, age 31, and Jose Antonio Cruz Ramirez, age 26, both of San Gabriel, were arrested and booked on murder charges. Both suspects work at Money Pot Shabu Shabu Restaurant.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32752
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly,
Date
December 22, 2011
Pages
p. 22
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly,
Date
December 22, 2011
Pages
p. 22
Subjects
Berry, Anthony
Crime and Criminals
Lorenzo, Juan
Murder
Ramirez, Jose Antonio Cruz
Item ID
32949AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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