Glendale and Palmdale
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A female driver forced a male in another car off a remote mountain road Friday. Hacked him to death beside the highway. Urinated on his corpse. Then fled in his car, witnesses said. The attacker screamed obscenities at the male before lunging at him with a butcher's cleaver, according to the witnesses who called 911 from a nearby tavern. Authorities were tight-lipped about the 2:50 p.m. attack on Angeles Forest Highway in Angeles National Forest between Glendale and Palmdale. But the following details emerged. Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were searching for a creme or beige four-door car, possibly a Taurus or Toyota Camry, said Deputy Jacki Ramer. The car was last seen speeding toward Glendale. Ramer said investigators had not identified the victim or the killer, but that they were working on several leads. She said that at least two sets of people witnessed the attack and were expected to be interviewed by detectives. The suspect was described as white. Blonde. Muscular. Heavily tattooed. Wearing an emerald tongue stud and wraparound mirror shades. She was in her late 20s. Alva Lewis, owner of the Hidden Springs Tavern, said two males who had been bird watching observed the attack through their binoculars. They tried to contact authorities from their cell phone, but, unaccountably, the cell phone malfunctioned. So they called authorities from a pay phone outside Lewis's restaurant, about three miles from where the attack occurred on a desolate stretch of the two-lane forest highway. The witnesses reported seeing a cloud of dust and two cars screech to a stop on the side of the road. The muscular female leaped out of her car and attacked the male. The witnesses reported that the attacker had a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol and that she stuck the barrel in the male's mouth. Then she yanked him partially out of the driver's seat window and, producing the butcher's cleaver, hacked him to death with "rapid, powerful blows." The bird-watching witnesses told Deputy Ramer that the killer then dropped her jeans, pulled aside her black thong panties and urinated on the hacked-up male. According to the same witnesses, she peed standing up, "like a man does." Next she calmly lit a Marlboro, and with the cigarette in her mouth, pulled the hacked-up, blood-soaked, pissed-upon male corpse through the window and dropped him on the rocky turf. She slid into the cockpit of the dead male's creme or beige Taurus or Camry and sped off in the direction of Glendale. "I don't think it was random or road rage or anything like that," Deputy Ramer said. "She swore at him when she got out of the car. "She lit a Marlboro. "She urinated on him. "These two individuals knew each other." Alva Lewis, who has run the Hidden Springs Tavern for nearly three decades, said such violence is rare in the almost uninhabited reaches of the national forest. "Usually folks murder someone down in the city and bring them up here to dump them," she said. "We've never had anything like this here happen before." ***
An elementary school teacher who had a baby by one of her sixth-graders has pleaded guilty to rape of a child. Marie Beth Hermanson, a 35-year-old mother of four other children, made her plea Thursday. She could get up to 10 years in prison at sentencing Aug 29. She said she still has feelings for the boy--who turned 14 a month after their daughter was born in May--and wants to raise the girl he fathered. The two met when she taught his second-grade class in this Seattle suburb. "There was a respect, an insight, a spirit, an understanding between us that grew over time," Hermanson told The Seattle Times earlier this month. By the time he was in her class again, in sixth grade, "he was my best friend," she said. "We just walked together in the same rhythm." Hermanson and the boy began having sex last summer. After she got pregnant, her husband informed relatives, one of whom contacted school officials and social workers. Hermanson has since lost custody of her four children--ages 3 to 12--and her husband has filed for divorce. The boy is in counseling. "He's doing fine as long as he's away from the situation and people don't harass him," said his mother, adding that he still loves the teacher. The boy is Samoan. ***
A male driver forced a female in another car off a remote mountain road Friday. Slashed her to death beside the highway. Changed into her bloody clothes. And fled in her car, witnesses said. The attacker screamed obscenities at the female before lunging at her with a straight razor, according to the witnesses who called 911 from a nearby tavern. Authorities were tight-lipped about the 2:40 p.m. attack on Angeles Forest Highway in Angeles National Forest between Glendale & Palmdale. But the following details emerged. Los Angeles sheriff's deputies were searching for a reddish or burgundy two-door car, possibly a Saturn or Nissan Altima, said Deputy Jacki Ramer. The car was last seen speeding toward Palmdale. Ramer said investigators had not yet identified the victim or the killer, but that they were working on several leads. She said that at least two sets of people witnessed the attack and were expected to be interviewed by detectives. The suspect was described as a white man in his thirties. Lean. Tattooed. Head shaved. With a fire-engine red goatee and wraparound mirror shades. He wore a swastika-shaped gold or gold-plated earring in his left ear. Alva Lewis, owner of the Hidden Springs Tavern, said two females who had been bird watching observed the attack through their binoculars. They tried to contact authorities from their cell phone, but for reasons still unclear, the cell phone malfunctioned. So they called authorities from a phone outside Lewis's restaurant, two miles from where the attack occurred on a desolate stretch of the two-lane forest highway. The witnesses reported seeing a cloud of dust and two cars screech to a stop on the side of the road. The male leaped out of his car and attacked the female in the other car. The witnesses reported that the attacker first used a large caliber Smith & Wesson revolver to pistol-whip her about the head. Then he yanked her partially out of the driver's seat window and, producing a straight razor, slashed her repeatedly. According to the witnesses, the killer then withdrew a foot-long Cuban cigar, admired it, sniffed it, and calmly lit it with a lighter. A rich, thick cloud of smoke issued out of his nose and mouth. With the Cuban cigar in his mouth, he pulled the dead female through the window and dropped her on the leafy turf. Next he dropped his jeans and shorts, pulled off the dead female's blood-soaked jeans and black thong panties, and snuggled into them. Dripping blood and viscera, he squeezed into the cockpit of the female's red or burgundy Saturn or Nissan Altima and, with the Cuban cigar still in his mouth, sped off in the direction of Palmdale. "I don't think it was random or road rage or anything like that," Deputy Ramer said. "He swore at her when he got out of the car. "He put on her bloody jeans and black thong panties. "He lit a Cuban cigar. "These individuals knew each other." Alva Lewis, who has run the Hidden Springs Tavern for nearly three decades, said such violence is rare in the almost uninhabited reaches of the national forest. "Usually folks murder somebody down in the city and bring them up here to dump them," she said. "We've never had anything like this here happen before." |
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