An ‘unknown substance’ knocked the missing woman’s husband unconscious when he answered a knock at the family’s apartment door, Irvine Police Department say.
On the evening of July 31 that year, police received reports of shots fired in Loring Park. Responding officers found the body of 21-year-old Joel Larson, who had just moved to the area from Des Moines, Iowa.
The circumstances of Summer Moon-Utah Wells’s disappearance remain unclear. Reports suggest at this point, the missing child's case is not connected to the disappearance of her aunt, 21-year-old Rose Marie Bly.
In June 1996, Angie Dodge, 18, was asleep when Dripps broke into her Idaho Falls apartment, raped her and then cut her throat, nearly decapitating the victim, according to prosecutors.
She looms large in the annals of American lore: Lizzie Borden, the woman who “took an axe” to her parents, bestowing “40 whacks” on one, and “41” on the other.