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    O.C. serial killer had selected more victims, D.A. says

    O.C. serial killer had selected more victims, D.A. says

    January 17, 2012 | 11:59am

    Orange County prosecutors said the alleged serial killer charged in the stabbing deaths of four homeless men had already selected future victims.

    In announcing Tuesday that prosecutors had filed four counts of murder against Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo, Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas said the 23-year-old Yorba Linda man relished media attention and actually selected his final victim after the man's photo appeared as part of a Los Angeles Times story on the killings.

    Rackauckas said Ocampo planned each killing and looked for opportunities to carry them out.

    PHOTOS: Serial killer targets O.C. homeless

    Ocampo was arrested Friday after he was chased down by two men following the stabbing death of John Berry, 64, behind an Anaheim fast-food restaurant. The fatal stabbing was the fourth in a string of slayings that had left the homeless population on edge.

    Ocampo, a former Marine who had served in Iraq, has been held without bail on a psychological watch at Orange County Jail in Santa Ana since he was detained.

    The victims were identified as James Patrick McGillivray, 53, killed in Placentia on Dec. 20; Lloyd Middaugh, 42, found in Anaheim on Dec. 28; Paulus Smit, 57, in Yorba Linda on Dec. 30; and Berry, who was killed Friday.

    Each victim was stabbed dozens of times, one more than 60 times, the district attorney said.

    Prosecutors have labeled the case a "serial murder spree" but have not said whether they've pinpointed a motive. Rackauckas also said no decision has been reached on whether prosecutors will seek the death penalty.

    Ocampo's attorney on Monday said he had not yet talked with his client, and had grown frustrated that authorities had prevented him from talking with Ocampo at the county jail.

    Ocampo was said by family and friends to have been increasingly troubled after he returned from a six-month stint in Iraq.

    They also described a young man who was unusually charitable and gave freely to the homeless.

    Alleged O.C. serial killer had selected more victims, D.A. says - latimes.com
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    Published: Feb. 1, 2012 Updated: 10:23 a.m.

    Homeless serial killings: Links to 2 other slayings?

    BRUCE CHAMBERS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
    By LARRY WELBORN / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

    SANTA ANA – Orange County police detectives, prosecutors and forensic investigators on the serial killer task force are looking at whether the stabbing deaths of a Yorba Linda woman and her son in October are connected to the killings of four homeless men in December and January, The Orange County Register has learned.

    Police expanded the investigation into the Oct. 25 slayings of Raquel Estrada, 53, and her son Juan Herrera, 34, in their home on Trix Circle after a Yorba Linda man was arrested last month as he ran from an Anaheim parking lot where a fourth homeless man was stabbed to death within a three-week period.

    The arrest on Jan. 13 of Itzcoatl "Izzy" Ocampo, 23, a Marine who served in Iraq, was touted by law enforcement authorities as the end of an intense hunt for a serial killer.

    Detectives on the multi-agency serial killer tack force, which includes representatives from Anaheim, Brea, Placentia police departments; the Orange County District Attorney's office; and Sheriff's Department and the FBI, saw similarities between the Estrada and Herrera slayings and the stabbing deaths of the four homeless men that began in Yorba Linda on Dec. 20.

    In particular, detectives focused on the severity of the attacks, the number of wounds and the type of wounds, and the proximity of Ocampo's home to the scene of the Estrada and Herrera slayings – less than two miles. Ocampo lived on Lakeview Avenue less than a mile and a half from the home on Trix Circle where the earlier stabbings took place.

    "We're looking into it," acknowledged Deputy District Attorney Howard Gundy. "We've been aware of the similarities for some time, and we have placed the highest priority on processing evidence from the Trix Circle crime scene. We are waiting for results from the DNA and other comparisons."

    Detectives are also looking into reports that Ocampo knew Eder Giovanni Herrera, Raquel Estrada's youngest son and Juan Herrera's brother, who was arrested and charged with their murders a day after the bodies were found in October. Both victims had been stabbed multiple times with a large knife.

    Eder Herrera, 24, was accused of stabbing his mother and brother to death during the early evening hours of Oct. 25, 2011, and fleeing to a friend's house while Brea police flooded the scene in response to an anonymous 911 call.

    Brea police officers (Brea patrols in Yorba Linda) swarmed to the Estrada home in the 4200 block of Trix Circle at about 11:30 p.m. after receiving the phone call reporting a disturbance. Officers observed a blood trail in the front of the home, and saw the bodies of Estrada and Juan Herrera through a rear sliding door. Estrada's body was found on the kitchen floor. Her eldest son's body was a few feet away in the hallway.

    Eder Herrera was arrested the next day at 6 a.m. as he drove away from a nearby friend's house, where he claimed he spent the previous night. Brea police did not disclose what might have led to the killings. He was in custody when the serial killings of homeless men started on Dec. 20, when James McGillivray, 53, was stabbed to death behind a business in Placentia on Dec. 20.

    The killer struck again on Dec. 28, when Lloyd "Jimmy" Middaugh, 42, was stabbed to death near the Santa Ana River in Anaheim. Paulus "Dutch" Smith was stabbed in a stairwell of the Yorba Linda Public Library on Dec. 30.

    Ocampo was arrested on Jan. 13 as he ran bloody and shedding clothes after the fourth homeless man, John Berry, 64, was stabbed to death near a trash enclosure in the parking lot at the corner of La Palma Avenue and Imperial Highway.

    District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced on Jan. 17 that Ocampo was being charged with four counts of first-degree murder plus the special circumstances of multiple victims and murder by lying-in-wait.

    Rackauckas said each of the four homeless men was stabbed more than 40 times with a weapon believed to be a 7-inch fixed-blade military-type knife that was recovered along the route Ocampo ran as he tried to get away.

    Brea Police asked that anyone with information about the Estrada-Herrera homicides in October should call Police Detective Phil Rodriguez at 714-990-7677.

    Contact the writer: lwelborn@ocregister.com or 714-834-3784

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    CA man freed after murder charges dropped faces deportation

    A 24-year-old man jailed for more than three months in the murders of his mother and brother was a free man Saturday after prosecutors said they would instead charge a high school friend accused in a string of serial killings. But the previously accused man now faces an immigration hearing on whether he should be allowed to remain in the country because he told officials he was here illegally.

    Eder Herrera, a Mexican citizen, was briefly held by immigration officers Friday after being freed from county jail. The Orange County district attorney dropped the charges after forensic analysis showed a spot found in his vehicle was not blood, and DNA evidence linked Herrera's former schoolmate Itzcoatl Ocampo to the gory October stabbings.

    Prosecutors in suburban Orange County plan to charge Ocampo, a 23-year-old former Marine, with the murders of Herrera's 34-year-old brother Juan and 53-year-old mother Raquel Estrada in the family's rented three-bedroom house on a quiet residential cul-de-sac in upscale Yorba Linda.

    Ocampo already is charged with murdering four homeless men in a killing spree in December and January that terrorized a county better known as the home to Disneyland and prompted police to fan out and urge people to seek shelter indoors. He is expected to be arraigned on the new charges Monday.

    "We no longer have sufficient evidence to hold Mr. Herrera in custody," Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said in prepared remarks late Friday.

    Immigration officials said Herrera told them he entered the country illegally but has no criminal record aside from the dismissed charges.

    Herrera was released on his own recognizance and will be sent to an immigration judge for a hearing, Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement.

    It wasn't immediately clear what relationship may have existed between Ocampo and Herrera's family. The two men were friends and both graduated from Esperanza High School.

    Ocampo's family knew Herrera, who stayed with them for two weeks several years ago, but hadn't seen him recently, said Ocampo's 18-year-old brother Mix.

    The younger Ocampo said he had no idea someone he knew might have been involved in the October slayings just a mile from his home until he found a newspaper article about Herrera's arrest among his elder brother's belongings once his brother had been taken to jail.

    Herrera and his family had previously lived in Yorba Linda for many years but moved to the three-bedroom home last February, neighbors and people who knew the family said. The two sons worked together cleaning parking lots at night and the family seemed very close, they said.

    "What really impressed me was how the two sons seemed to love and respect their mother so much. Even after working all night they would sometimes come home and go back out to help their mother clean houses during the day," said the family's landlord, who asked not to be named out of privacy concerns. "Then came the news that Eder killed them. It just didn't make sense to any of us."

    Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas had not completely absolved Herrera from any potential responsibility in the case.

    "At this point we have not conclusively eliminated Mr. Herrera as a suspect in the case," Rackauckas said.

    Rackauckas said Herrera spent the night of the killings driving around with a friend and passed by the crime scene and did not want to stop and check on his family.

    A witness had identified a person he believed to be Herrera as dragging something from the front door threshold of the home into the house, Rackauckas said. Based on evidence at the scene, it appeared that Juan Herrera had attempted to escape out the front door before being dragged back inside by the killer.

    Herrera's brother Juan was found stabbed more than 60 times, his body left in a hallway. His mother was stabbed more than 30 times, authorities said.

    The stab wounds were similar to those suffered by the four homeless men bludgeoned to death in December and January. Each of the four men was stabbed more than 40 times with a weapon believed to be a 7-inch, fixed-blade, military-type knife, authorities said.

    Ocampo was arrested last month with blood on his face and hands after a fourth homeless man was killed, prosecutors said. He was charged with four counts of first-degree murder and the special circumstances of multiple victims and lying in wait.

    "This case has now expanded from murdering random, vulnerable strangers, to murdering people he knew," Rackauckas said. "It is chilling to know, that these murders took place two months before the murders of four homeless men began."

    A message left for Ocampo's attorney Randall Longwith was not immediately returned Saturday.

    James Patrick McGillivray, 53, was stabbed Dec. 20 near a shopping center in Placentia; Lloyd Middaugh, 42, was found Dec. 28 near a riverbed trail in Anaheim; Paulus Smit, 57, was stabbed to death outside a Yorba Linda library on Dec. 30; and John Berry, 64, was stabbed to death outside a fast-food restaurant on Jan. 13, the day Ocampo was arrested after authorities said a witness helped chase him down.

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