As Francis' husband - who was away at the time - was a drug dealer, the five murders were thought to be motivated by drug trafficking. Mullin then went back to Francis' house, where he shot and killed her and her two sons, Daemon Francis (aged 4) and David Hughes (aged 9). There, Mullin killed both Gianera and his wife with shots to the head, then Mullin stabbed their bodies repeatedly. She gave him Gianera's new address in Santa Cruz. The old cabin near the Mystery Spot on Mystery Spot Road, was now occupied by Kathy Francis (an old friend of Gianera). However, when Mullin went to Gianera's house on January 25, 1973, he found that his old friend had moved away. Mullin had purchased several guns and decided to kill Jim Gianera, a high school friend who had sold him marijuana, blaming him for his rejection from the Marines. By January 1973, Mullin had stopped using drugs and blamed them for his problems. This rejection fueled Mullin's paranoid delusions of conspiracies, behind which he believed was a powerful group of hippies. Marines, and passed the physical and psychiatric tests, before failing the drug test. Īfter that, Mullin tried to join the U.S. The witness description of a tall young man in dark clothing and black boots did not help the police, who initially speculated Tomei was lured into the church or startled a burglar. He beat, kicked and stabbed Tomei, who bled to death in the confessional while a parishioner watched Mullin run away. In a delusional state, he believed the priest, Father Henri Tomei (a French Resistance veteran from Marseilles who came to America after the war and was in his eighth year as assistant pastor), wanted to volunteer to be his next sacrifice to keep away the earthquakes. On November 2, 1972, Mullin went to confess his sins at St. He then dissected her body and scattered her remains alongside a hillside road. Mullin picked her up and stabbed her through the chest and the back.
His next victim, on October 24, 1972, was Mary Guilfoyle, 24, a Cabrillo College student who was running late for an interview and decided to hitchhike. Kill me so that others will be saved." : 4 White's body was found the next day.
Mullin was to claim later that the victim was Jonah from the Bible, and that he had sent Mullin a telepathic message saying, "Pick me up and throw me over the boat. White, 55, had been hitchhiking on Highway 9 and Mullin struck him down after tricking him into looking at the car engine. On October 13, 1972, Mullin beat Lawrence "Whitey" White, a homeless man, to death with a baseball bat. Mullin believed that the Vietnam War had produced enough American death to forestall earthquakes as a sort of blood sacrifice to nature, but that with the war winding down by late 1972, he would need to start killing people in order to have enough deaths to keep the earthquake away. Mullin's birthday, April 18, was the anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which he thought was very significant. By now he was hearing voices in his head that told him an earthquake was imminent, and that only through human sacrifice could he save California. Murder spree īy 1972, Mullin was 25 and had moved back in with his parents in Felton, California, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Ressler said Mullin had paranoid schizophrenia, manifesting as early as his senior year of high school, which could have been accelerated by the use of LSD or marijuana. He extinguished cigarettes on his own skin, attempted to enter the priesthood, and was evicted from an apartment after he repeatedly pounded on the floor, shouting at people who were not there. Over the next few years, he entered various institutions, but discharged himself after only a short stay. In 1969, at the age of 21, Mullin allowed his family to commit him to a mental hospital. Later he expressed fears that he was homosexual, even though he had a longtime girlfriend at the time. He built a shrine to his dead friend, Dean Richardson (1947–1965) in his bedroom. Shortly after graduating from San Lorenzo Valley High School, one of his best friends was killed in a car accident, and Mullin was devastated. Mullin had numerous friends at school and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by his classmates. His father, a World War II veteran, was strict and often spoke of his war service. Mullin was born on April 18, 1947, in Salinas, California, but grew up in Santa Cruz.
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