Sac County's Illegal Refusal to Comply with CPRA requests

I still wonder how in the world JJD would not have known of Ron Launius.

Sac LE has leaked that Launius was suspected of 27 murders. Maybe some of that, in addition to much else, is contained in whatever records they are reluctant to release.

JJD’s performances during his arraignments and trial looked like a gangster gag to me

I so don’t know how to go about this and wish I didn’t feel compelled to do so but, my house on Ambassador drive in Rancho Cordova CA was broken into and thoroughly ransacked several days before Christmas 1978. Food from a cupboard was poured in a pile on the living room floor next to a bottle of beer from our refrigerator. The only things determined to have been taken were the coins from my piggy bank and some souvenirs from a family vacation.

The Sacramento sheriff’s came that night and again the next day.

This was nearly 1979 years after the Visalia cops had told the Sacramento LE that the EAR who was terrorizing my town was was likely the VR.

WTF?

If they truly thought that it had been ‘kids’ committing vandalism, why did the cops come back a second time without trying to find fingerprints?

I remember quite a bit about the second visit. Disappointingly, it differs from what my parents remember or will admit to remembering. (for those not familiar with my story, my dad was a SSD deputy of about five years at the time after having been a sheriff’s deputy with Yuba county for about five years and my mother was either in the academy or had recently graduated and was a reserve deputy.)

The first responder was a rank-and-file deputy but the second was older and seemingly higher ranking. He was a uniformed officer— not a detective and I remember no mention of the EAR. What I do remember is the officer, my dad and I being in my bedroom at my window as that is from where the burglar(s) had exited our house fleeing from my dad who I had watched kick open the front door which had been locked from inside as my dad approached. I remember my dad telling my mom, who had stayed with me in the car, that he, my father, had heard the burglar(s) in my room which was at the rear and far NE corner of our house with Rossmor Bar area of the American River beyond our backyard and that he had tried to shoot them through the wall as he ran down the hall. The glass of my window was shattered and I distinctly remember the officer digging half heartedly with the tip of his buck knife in a bullet hole. I remember urging him to keep trying as I wanted to see the bullet and him telling me that it was too far in there and wouldn’t be much to see anyway. I think that I had asked about fingerprints...

My parents deny all of this about my dad shooting at him. I would be willing to believe that I had made this up to tell the kids at school a more exciting story and then came to believe it myself but why was the window shattered and why do I remember the officer digging in the bullet hole?

Anyway, I think that the second visit had to do with getting my dad’s story straight about shooting at fleeing juvenile burglars and not about the fact that the EAR had the exact MO as the VR and had ransacked an SSD deputy’s house and was still active in Rancho Cordova.