A second jury has recommended the death penalty for Prentice Juan Snow, convicted of killing Arcadian Alfred Koll, who operated Koll's Professional Pharmacy in Pasadena. Sentencing is expected on August 22.
Sam and Louise LaCorte have collected 24,671 signatures from people opposed to the parole of Richard Lanill Johnson, the man who killed their daughter. Johnson was convicted of shooting and killing Catherine LaCorte and Robert Morton in the foothills above Arcadia on February 11, 1976.
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.
Cherry Liu, a Sierra Madre City employee was murdered August 1 in a tragic murder-suicide in the 800 block of Sunset Boulevard in Arcadia. Her estranged husband Mel Liu died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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.
Convicted rapist Steven Wu, the Arcadia deacon who drugged his two sisters-in-law and videotaped himself sexually assaulting them, was sentenced to 79 years in prison Friday.
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.
Brian Lawrence Snoke of Arcadia is taken into custody for questioning regarding the murder of Scott Edward Hutson of Arcadia and former Arcadia residents Robert Mark Green and Christina Rae Young.