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Murder in California: Rage and Revenge Murders profiles some of California's most infamous murder cases. The edition photographically transports you to actual murder sites along with images related to the case and perpetrator(s). The images and accompanying profiles offer a descriptive account and follow-up aftermath providing an important understanding into the far-reaching effects of each crime.

The captured snapshots portray visual testimonies of extinguished lives removed by acts of violence. Crime scenes often revert back into unremarkable landscape or unassuming buildings over the ensuing years and decades. Several have altered little since their moment of infamy. Many are passed daily by pedestrian and vehicular traffic unaware of a location's unique significance.

California has been the site for many notorious homicides. The following are portrayed in this edition:

South of the Border Escapade Funded By A Murder Victim's Credit Card

McDonald's San Ysidro Restaurant Massacre Site:

Artie and Jim Mitchell: Contemporary Cain and Abel

Playboy playmate Dorothy Stratten's killing and perpetrator suicide

Ewell Family Killings: Delayed gratification thwarts a near perfect killing

Laci Peterson: When motive convicts beyond the body of evidence

Lyle and Erik Menendez: The sins of the son's bury their parents

The Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ronald Goldman Murders: An American travesty

The Marin County barbeque murders

A convincing performance behind the killing of Bonnie Lee Bakley

Vincent Brothers: The convicting insects on the radiator

An Illusionary Friendship That Stimulated an Embezzlement Murder

Diane Whipple: Defining accountability with vicious pet owners

Eastside Salinas: An invisible war Rages streetside

Slaying of Ennis Cosby on an isolated freeway off ramp

Father Eric Freed's Brutal Slaying: A Lost Coast of fractured souls

The Silent and Senseless Murder of Lindsay Cutshall and Jason Allen

Haing Ngor: An extended and consequential journey curtailed by a random killing

Huey P. Newton: A tarnished messenger with feet of clay

Johnny Stompanato: Lana Turner's fatal attraction

Barbara Graham: An unsympathetic film portrayal

Marvin Gaye: A visionary dishonored within his household

Ned Doheny and Hugh Plunkett: The Greystone Mansion murder-suicide

Phil Hartman: The shocking murder-suicide from an unanticipated source

Phil Spector: The Crumbling legacy of a musical genius

Ramon Novarro: The gruesome torture of a closeted screen idol

Ronni Chasen Shooting: When two divergent worlds collided

Sal Mineo: A career comeback curtailed

The Abrupt departure of Soul Music legend Sam Cooke in his prime

Ryan Jenkins: Jealousy Consumes A Reality Television Contestant

The Covina Christmas Eve massacre by a Santa impersonator

Edward Allaway: The questionable case for cured insanity

Mel and Elizabeth Grimes: A one-ton stone

The Helzer Brothers: Children of Thunder slayings

The disintegrating mind and schoolyard entrance massacre by Brenda Spencer

Dr. Victor Ohta: The execution and incendiary of the house on the hill

The vindictive rampage of Elliot Rodger

The Golden Dragon massacre: The gang who didn't shoot straight

Lynwood Jim Drake: A loose wire springs a rampage

Marcus Wesson: The cult and tragic murder consequence traced to family abuse

Scott Dekraai: Revenge for a punitive divorce settlement

Holzer Family stabbing spree: Spiraling out of control mental illness

The Oikos University Massacre: Piecing together a disjointed puzzle

San Diego State Engineering graduate student's rage

Santana High School: Adolescence angst with a gunfire solution

A Synagogue Shooting By A Self-Deluded Solider.