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San Quentin State Prison

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2007

    Over Spitzer's Objection, Gov Delays New Death Chamber

    You've got to wonder how state assemblyman Todd Spitzer--a former Orange County supervisor, prosecutor and LAPD reserve officer--tolerates continual Sacramento BS even within his own Republican Party. McClatchy news reported today that GOP Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger--who oddly still enjoys The Ter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2007

    OC White Supremacist Killer Avoids Death Penalty

    Just before lunch today, the jury in the Michael Allan Lamb murder case announced itself "hopelessly deadlocked" on whether the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad member deserved the death penalty. The vote was nearly tied after almost three days of deliberating. Six jurors wanted death; f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2007

    DA Determined to Send White Supremacist Killer to Death Row

    Prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh announced this morning he will try a second time to send convicted killer Michael Alan Lamb, 33, to San Quentin State Prison's notorious Death Row. An Orange County jury convicted the Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squad hit man in July for the execution-style murd ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 24, 2007

    How Many Public Enemy Number One Death Squaders Can You Squeeze Onto Death Row?

    Billy Joe Johnson, Orange County's most infamous white supremacist and killer, inched closer this week to San Quentin State Prison's Death Row. Deputy District Attorney Ebrahim Baytieh charged Johnson (pictured) with the lying-in-wait 2002 murder of a fellow Public Enemy Number One (PENI) Death Squ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2007

    PENI Gangster Won't See Freedom Again

    This afternoon Superior Court Judge William Froeberg sentenced convicted killer Jacob Rump, a 30-year-old Orange County gangster, to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2002 ambush murder in Anaheim. Details about the case involving Rump (pictured), who is a member of Public Enem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2008

    Lamb Chopped: White Supremacist Gets Death

    White supremacist gangster and killer Michael Lamb (pictured) trotted into a heavily guarded Orange County courtroom this afternoon, chuckled with his lawyers and watched quietly as a court clerk announced the jury's verdict: death. But the proceedings, which took less than two minutes, nearly lef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2008

    Thien Minh Ly's Killer: "I Am Not a Monster"

    Last week, we featured the story of Gunner Jay Lindberg's attempts to get off California's death row by arguing that his brutal, 1996 ambush murder of Thien Minh Ly, a popular Vietnamese American immigrant, was not a hate crime related to white supremacist views. (That story can be found here, for t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2008

    Death Official for PEN1 White Supremacist Killer

    Dana Point's Michael Lamb ditched his menacing shaved head look and entered Judge William Froeberg's 10th floor Santa Ana courtroom this morning with a full, messy head of hair that still couldn't cover the white supremacist tattoos doting his scalp, face, throat and neck. It wasn't like Lamb, a v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    OC Hate Crime Killer Headed For Lethal Injection

    This morning, the California Supreme Court affirmed the conviction and death-penalty sentence for Dallas Cowboys' fanatic Gunner Jay Lindberg, who celebrated what he saw as a 1996 Super Bowl victory by "America's team" with the savage ambush murder of a Vietnamese American he called "a Jap." In a 6 ... More >>

  • Film

    June 22, 2006

    Deep Doo-doo

    A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are after your money again

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2009

    Top Five Latinas in Orange County History!

    This evening, iconic Chicana author Betita Martinez will speak about her latest book, 500 Years of Chicana History, an excellent--if a bit too ¡QUE VIVA LA RAZA! for genteel (read: gabacho) historians--collection of pictures and facts at the Teamsters 952 Union Hall, 140 South Marks Way, Orange, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2009

    Author Tells of Her Relationship with Killer Skylar Deleon

    "I sat down with a killer the other day," begins Tina Dirmann's feature in the March issue of Orange Coast. "Funny, I thought, how, up close the face of evil often doesn't look so very evil at all."Dirmann's subject is Skylar Deleon, the former Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actor turned con man, dru ... More >>

  • News

    January 8, 2009

    The Assassination of Sheriff James Barton by the Mexican Juan Flores

    "I sat down with a killer the other day," begins Tina Dirmann's feature in the March issue of Orange Coast. "Funny, I thought, how, up close the face of evil often doesn't look so very evil at all."Dirmann's subject is Skylar Deleon, the former Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actor turned con man, dru ... More >>

  • Features

    July 17, 2008

    When Gunner Jay Lindberg Killed Thien Minh Ly, Was It Actually a Hate Crime?

    "I sat down with a killer the other day," begins Tina Dirmann's feature in the March issue of Orange Coast. "Funny, I thought, how, up close the face of evil often doesn't look so very evil at all."Dirmann's subject is Skylar Deleon, the former Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actor turned con man, dru ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 13, 2008

    [Pucker Up] Behind the Green Door

    "I sat down with a killer the other day," begins Tina Dirmann's feature in the March issue of Orange Coast. "Funny, I thought, how, up close the face of evil often doesn't look so very evil at all."Dirmann's subject is Skylar Deleon, the former Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers actor turned con man, dru ... More >>

  • Features

    January 6, 2000

    ORALE!

    Re-creating Zoot-Suit culture

  • News

    August 2, 2007

    OC Murderer Escapes Death Row--for Now

    Jury deadlocks on ‘ultimate’ punishment for Michael Lamb

  • Film

    April 12, 2007

    Twelve Films I'm Excited to See

    (And eight I plan to avoid like the plague)

  • Culture

    November 16, 2006

    Other Perspectives

    'Golden States of Grace'

  • News

    March 23, 2006

    Monster's Ball

    Feds, Aryan Brotherhood come to paint the OC courthouse white

  • Columns

    December 15, 2005

    Commie Girl

    Itching with it

  • Features

    October 20, 2005

    San Juan Capistrano

    Itching with it

  • Columns

    March 10, 2005

    Letters

    Itching with it

  • Music

    February 24, 2005

    'We Saw the Truth That Day'

    Johnny Cash was kindness from a dirt-floor perspective

  • News

    November 6, 2003

    The White Lady Was Brown

    100 years ago, fighting the Southern Pacific could get you killed in OC

  • Music

    September 25, 2003

    I Hear the Train A-Comin

    Johnny Cash, 1932-2003

  • Culture

    November 7, 2002

    The Perfect Fulcrum

    Johnny Cash at the Nixon Li-bary

  • Music

    September 21, 2000

    Trout Fishing in America

    And Merle Haggard death-watching in Irvine

  • Music

    July 20, 2000

    Eddie Wislson(A.K.A. Crazy Fuckin Eddie)

    What's humming through the skulls of Orange County?

  • Music

    June 15, 2000

    Drowning, Not Waving

    Jack Ingram needs your attention

  • News

    May 28, 2009
  • Music

    August 6, 2009
  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    UCI Fall Film Program Hosts Pedro Costa, Tsai Ming-Liang, Stanley Kubrick, Yes Men, Kirby Dick and Closeted Gay Politicians

    Kirby Dick is coming to Irvine to screen "Outrage," his documentary on closeted gay politicians.​UC Irvine's Film and Video Center was late in releasing details of its fall program because the FVC's tiny and tireless staff was unsure whether there would even be a program. (Thank you, UC system acr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 14, 2009

    White Supremacist OC Nazi Gets His Wish!

    Will Billy Joe's Suck Up to Prison Gang Work?​In what may have been acclaimed homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh's easiest conviction, a jury this afternoon found Billy Joe Johnson--the notorious, wide-eyed and lisping Costa Mesa white supremacist--guilty in the 2002 conspiracy to execute a fello ... More >>

  • News

    October 29, 2009

    [Moxley Confidential] Killer Billy Joe Johnson Makes His Case for Death Row

    Will Billy Joe's Suck Up to Prison Gang Work?​In what may have been acclaimed homicide prosecutor Ebrahim Baytieh's easiest conviction, a jury this afternoon found Billy Joe Johnson--the notorious, wide-eyed and lisping Costa Mesa white supremacist--guilty in the 2002 conspiracy to execute a fello ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2009

    Judge to Costa Mesa White Supremacist: "You Shall Suffer the Death Penalty"

    Serial killer before he inked two Nazi SS tats over his throat​It took almost 12 minutes for Superior Court Judge Frank F. Fasel to summarize Billy Joe Johnson's extensive rap sheet and mention a few mitigating factors before finding that the Costa Mesa-bred white supremacist gangster's 30-year sp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Tanya Nelson Irks Judge Frank F. Fasel, Who Sends Double-Killer to Death Row

    Death row bound Nelson: I'm innocent!​Retiring Frank F. Fasel is the type of no-nonsense Orange County judge who appreciates people who make their points quickly. But Fasel wasn't impressed by Tanya Jaime Nelson's pithy pre-sentencing message designed to keep herself off California's notorious dea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2010

    Sunday News Notes

    ​Sunday's local news highlights include:Unsolved 1977 NY Murder Tied Again to OC-LA Serial KillerVeteran courthouse reporter Larry Welborn got nearly a full page today to tell the tragic story of popular 23-year-old Ellen Jane Hover of Manhattan. Hover was murdered 33 years ago this month aft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Rapist/Killer Edward Patrick Morgan Wins Supreme Court Point

    Eddie Morgan​You've probably never heard of Edward Patrick Morgan, a onetime La Palma and Anaheim resident who charmed his way into the lives of awestruck young Orange County women with smooth talk, model good looks, perfect hair and a fat-free ripped 5-foot-8, 200-pound physique.But Morgan is a m ... More >>

  • News

    October 28, 2010

    OC's Scariest People

    Crypt from the headlines, here are our annual 31 flavors of fiendishness

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2010

    Scott Peterson Accused of Sex Crimes with OC Teenager

    Peterson​The Orange County District Attorney's office is prosecuting Scott Peterson for having an alleged unlawful sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.I know what you're thinking: How could Peterson, who is on death row in San Quentin State Prison for killing his pregnant wife and dumping ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2011

    Rodney Alcala Charged for New York Murders

    Alcala on The Dating Game in the '70s​Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced at a news conference Thursday that convicted serial killer Rodney Alcala will be extradited from California to the Big Apple to face trial for the murders of two women in the 1970s.Alcala, 67, is curr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Rodney Alcala, Convicted Serial Killer, Demanded Payback for Candy and Playboys in OC Jail

    ​Larry Welborn has a fascinating piece on The Orange County Register site about the 26 claims serial killer Rodney Alcala filed against his Orange County jailers while he was holed up in Santa Ana defending himself in his third (and hopefully final) death-penalty trial.Among the items the jailhous ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 31, 2011

    The Batbombs

    Alex's Bar

  • News

    May 19, 2011

    The Hard Cell At the OC Jail

    [Moxley Confidential] Deputies locked an innocent man in a cell with a homicidal, white-supremacist gangster and walked away

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Serial Killer Sues Two OC Deputies for Spitting Incident

    Alcala wants $250 from deputies​Though he's sitting on death row in California's notorious San Quentin State Prison, serial killer and rapist Rodney James Alcala isn't done complaining about his treatment in Orange County. This month, Alcala filed his 17th lawsuit in Orange County Superior Court.H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 8, 2011

    [BREAKING:] State Supreme Court Affirms Death Penalty for John Famalaro, Killer of 23-year-old Woman Kept in Cold Storage

    ​The California Supreme Court has confirmed the death penalty for John Famalaro, the phony cop convicted of killing Denise Huber, who disappeared on her way home to Newport Beach from a Morrissey concert in 1991, and keeping the 23-year-old's body in cold storage until it was discovered in Arizona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Rodney Alcala Wants to Stay on Death Row

    ​Serial killer Rodney Alcala has been behind bars since his arrest in 1979 for the murder of 12-year-old Robin Samsoe of Huntington Beach. Through his original convictions, overturned convictions and re-affirmed convictions, the 68-year-old has remained incarcerated in California. Against characte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Why Does John Urell, Pedo-Priest Protector Supreme, Sit on the Board of a Catholic School?

    ​If there were justice in this world, Monsignor John Urell would've been in San Quentin long ago, in prison in a culture where child molesters and their protectors aren't welcomed with open arms like they are at the Diocese of Orange. But there is no justice, and so not only does John Urell remain ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Rodney Alcala Can Be Extradited to New York: Judge

    ​A judge in Northern California has ruled Rodney Alcala, the serial killer sitting on Death Row for killing a 12-year-old Huntington Beach girl and four women in Los Angeles County in the 1970s, can be extradited to New York to stand trial for two murders there.Alcala is currently scheduled to be ... More >>

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