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Eva Davidson Taylor of Santa Barbara died on April 18, 1974 due to bludgeoning while her house was burglarized.

Admittedly, the date is early in the GSK's timeline, but the MO (bludgeoning and burglary) and the location of the crime, in relation to other known Santa Barbara attacks of the GSK make it worth further investigation.



Here's a quote from portOfLeith, from another thread (in this sub-forum) which has a few more details that maybe Sandia (please, Sandia?) can help us fill out



?? Taylor's robbery was not a classic burglary. The perp only took a single item of jewelry leaving more expensive jewelry behind. He also ransacked an underwear drawer. Sandia has more information on this case since she lived on this street. I will always wonder about this case because the location is so close to Toltec. I mean how many bludgeon murders can one small neighborhood have???

I've also found a brief article from Mrs. Taylor's hometown paper, the Southeast Missourian from April 23, 1974:





Eva Davidson Taylor of Santa Barbara died on April 18, 1974 due to bludgeoning while her house was burglarized.Admittedly, the date is early in the GSK's timeline, but the MO (bludgeoning and burglary) and the location of the crime, in relation to other known Santa Barbara attacks of the GSK make it worth further investigation.Here's a quote from portOfLeith, from another thread (in this sub-forum) which has a few more details that maybe Sandia (please, Sandia?) can help us fill outI've also found a brief article from Mrs. Taylor's hometown paper, the Southeast Missourian from April 23, 1974:

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Member Back to Top Post by Agent99 aka Sandia on truthandsoul said:

Eva Davidson Taylor of Santa Barbara died on April 18, 1974 due to bludgeoning while her house was burglarized.

Admittedly, the date is early in the GSK's timeline, but the MO (bludgeoning and burglary) and the location of the crime, in relation to other known Santa Barbara attacks of the GSK make it worth further investigation.



Here's a quote from portOfLeith, from another thread (in this sub-forum) which has a few more details that maybe Sandia (please, Sandia?) can help us fill out



?? Taylor's robbery was not a classic burglary. The perp only took a single item of jewelry leaving more expensive jewelry behind. He also ransacked an underwear drawer. Sandia has more information on this case since she lived on this street. I will always wonder about this case because the location is so close to Toltec. I mean how many bludgeon murders can one small neighborhood have???





Eva Davidson Taylor of Santa Barbara died on April 18, 1974 due to bludgeoning while her house was burglarized.Admittedly, the date is early in the GSK's timeline, but the MO (bludgeoning and burglary) and the location of the crime, in relation to other known Santa Barbara attacks of the GSK make it worth further investigation.Here's a quote from portOfLeith, from another thread (in this sub-forum) which has a few more details that maybe Sandia (please, Sandia?) can help us fill outI've also found a brief article from Mrs. Taylor's hometown paper, the Southeast Missourian from April 23, 1974: Port helped me tremendously in finding out the name of the woman, Eva Davidson Taylor, and we tracked down her daughter. I went to interview the daughter and got more information on the crime.



Eva looked very young and fit for her age but she was not raped. A youth had been seen earlier in the evening jumping over her rear fence. There had been prowling in the neighborhood on the street behind her house (I'm not sure if there were burglaries). The killer pried open her living room sliding glass door with a screwdriver from Raytheon and WENT DIRECTLY to her bedroom and BLUDGEONED her to death. He took a costume jewelry locket and wedding rings of very little value while leaving a very costly diamond dinner ring. LE did not connect this to GSK's crimes. They said it was a burglary gone wrong.



I strongly disagree that it was a burglary gone wrong. From what I know about thieves is that they try to be sure a person is NOT home. They don't break into a home in the middle of the night when they know people ARE home and then go directly to the bedroom where they they know the people will be. Nothing of value was taken! This was no burglary! I feel certain the intent was murder.



The murder was discovered the next day and while the police were in the home and the daughter was in a front bedroom, she observed a VW bug do a fast turn around in front of the house and speed away. She can't recall the color. She does not believe it was a Baja Bug. This brings to mind the sound of screeching tires at the corner just outside the entrance to the O/M condos (Avenida Pequena and Cathedral Oaks Road) at 5:00 a.m. Dec 30, 1979, just a couple of hours after the murder of O/M. Eva's daughter couldn't recall if the tires were squealing or that he burned rubber, but it was very fast and abrupt and stood out to her and she mentioned it to me.





I asked Eva's daughter if she could think of anybody who might do this and she said no, but she did recall that she, the daughter, had also lived in the neighborhood (she actually lived in the center of a perfect triangle. If you draw a line from O/M to S/D to ET it forms a perfect triangle and the daughter lived in the exact center of the triangle. A family with a bunch of boys moved in next door to her. At least one of the boys was rumored to have been a bad kid and had been in a mental facility according to neighborhood rumor. There was an incident with the boy and his mean dog and her little tiny daughter so when a house they had their eye on became available they jumped at the opportunity to move to a different area of Santa Barbara.



I got to thinking that perhaps if this troubled boy spotted the daughter going into ET's house he may have thought "a, ha! that's where she moved to" and perhaps the daughter was the target and not ET. In fact the daughter told me that for many years she received hang up calls no matter where they moved and they were buying & selling houses and moving rather frequently for a period of time and the calls continued at each place including at her husband's work. She attributed these calls to possibly being one of her patients as she had become a family therapist at some point in time, so perhaps she is right, but still I think those hang up calls are very interesting!



I told all of this and more to SBSO. They didn't buy it and I have heard two versions, one that they think it was a robbery gone bad, and another where they feel they know who did it but do not have enough evidence to arrest.



Well, I e-mailed Investigator Larry Pool, and he was VERY interested. I developed a correspondence with him. He interviewed the daughter and actually told me that he feels it is logical to think it may be connected to the GSK series because of the location. That was a very nice and quiet crime free neighborhood if you remove the murders of Eva Taylor, and the GSK crimes. I think he must also consider that it was a bludgeoning death too. I never had any strange incidents when I lived in that neighborhood. (I did when I moved to a different neighborhood 4 miles away though but I won't go into that.)



I gathered as much information as I could on the family of boys as to any locations they have lived in, their ages and complete names and gave it to Investigator Pool. They have no criminal records that can still be found at least and seem to have gone on to lead productive, successful lives. There is no record of them living in Orange County, or Sacramento (although I found a Sacramento phone number associated with one brother, possibly connected to his business). I don't intend to pursue any further information on the brothers since I handed it over to Investigator Pool.

Another poi was developed and handed over to Investigator Pool also so it was in his hands and I don't know if he looked into this person or not, but this other person lived half way in between Manuela and Janelle.



Eva was murdered on April 18, 1974. The Visalia Ransacker's first "known" two known crimes were on April 6, 1974.Then the 3rd VR crime was a month later on 5/4/74. "If" the VR is the GSK, could he have been in Goleta on 4/18/74 and committed this murder of Eva Taylor knowing he was due to leave town the next day or soon after for Visalia? Investigator Pool says that sometimes youth who commit murder, commit their first murder on an easy victim (a sleeping elderly woman?), and then don't kill again for years so he doesn't feel that the continuum of violence is necessarily a factor to consider.



I think other LE agencies might now also believe Eva Taylor to have been a GSK victim. But Port, guessting, if you are reading this, possibly you can let me know if that is true.



Good night!





I found out about the bludgeoning death of an older woman that lived in my neighborhood. She had been murdered on April 18, 1974. UPDATE REFERENCES TO DATE OF DEATH IN SOME POSTS ABOVE ARE INCORRECT. DATE WAS 4/18/74. I was able to find out which house she lived in and

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I thought about this. It's true enough, I've heard. When did you contact Larry Pool? What was his final word on the matter?



Rereading that OP, it probably wasn't a sex crime. The killer probably went through that drawer because old people might store cash there. If the killer were the Visalia Ransacker, wouldn't he have gone through a few more drawers or cabinets? And did they get any fingerprints! "Investigator Pool says that sometimes youth who commit murder, commit their first murder on an easy victim (a sleeping elderly woman?), and then don't kill again for years so he doesn't feel that the continuum of violence is necessarily a factor to consider."I thought about this. It's true enough, I've heard. When did you contact Larry Pool? What was his final word on the matter?Rereading that OP, it probably wasn't a sex crime. The killer probably went through that drawer because old people might store cash there. If the killer were the Visalia Ransacker, wouldn't he have gone through a few more drawers or cabinets? And did they get any fingerprints!

Right, I don't think it was a sex crime, but if sex was the motive, not burglary, then yes, we're talking about a different kind of profile.



Interesting about Pool's statement. That makes sense and I think there's some precedence for it (e.g. see the posts that Port made:



Keep in mind, this is just a Twelve days after the first believed VR crime (4/6/74).

Right, I don't think it was a sex crime, but if sex was the motive, not burglary, then yes, we're talking about a different kind of profile.Interesting about Pool's statement. That makes sense and I think there's some precedence for it (e.g. see the posts that Port made: earonsgsk.proboards.com/thread/29/san-joaquin-valley-murders) Keep in mind, this is just a Twelve days after the first believed VR crime (4/6/74).

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I thought about this. It's true enough, I've heard. When did you contact Larry Pool? What was his final word on the matter?



Rereading that OP, it probably wasn't a sex crime. The killer probably went through that drawer because old people might store cash there. If the killer were the Visalia Ransacker, wouldn't he have gone through a few more drawers or cabinets? And did they get any fingerprints! "Investigator Pool says that sometimes youth who commit murder, commit their first murder on an easy victim (a sleeping elderly woman?), and then don't kill again for years so he doesn't feel that the continuum of violence is necessarily a factor to consider."I thought about this. It's true enough, I've heard. When did you contact Larry Pool? What was his final word on the matter?Rereading that OP, it probably wasn't a sex crime. The killer probably went through that drawer because old people might store cash there. If the killer were the Visalia Ransacker, wouldn't he have gone through a few more drawers or cabinets? And did they get any fingerprints!



Interesting about Pool's statement. That makes sense and I think there's some precedence for it (e.g. see the posts that Port made:



Keep in mind, this is just a TWELVE days after the first believed VR crime (4/6/74).

Right, I don't think it was a sex crime, but if sex was the motive, not burglary, then yes, we're talking about a different kind of profile.Interesting about Pool's statement. That makes sense and I think there's some precedence for it (e.g. see the posts that Port made: earonsgsk.proboards.com/thread/29/san-joaquin-valley-murders) Keep in mind, this is just a TWELVE days after the first believed VR crime (4/6/74).



There was a bloody palm print left at Eva Taylor's. There is not a huge data base to check palm prints, so if a suspect is developed they probably will be able to check the palm print against that specific suspect.



Well, I'm rambling again. Too tired to think straight right now. Off to beddie bye, night all.

Good point about no ransacking and the VR connection. I heard no mention of ransacking at Eva Taylor's home, but can't say that for certain there was none. I didn't think to ask that of the daughter and she didn't bring it up. So that part does not sound like the VR. Of course we don't know if the VR is GSK, so we don't know for certain if GSK killed Prof. Snelling. I do lean toward believing the GSK was the VR and I don't believe he ransacked the Snelling's home because his intent was different that night. So perhaps when he had his mind on kidnapping, rape, and/or murder, the ransacking wasn't needed to act out his rage. GSK's M.O. changed to murder once he landed in Goleta, before that he was a rapist, (except "if" he was the VR he shot Professor Snelling who was chasing him, he shot at Officer McGowen who was chasing him, the EAR shot Rodney Miller who was chasing him, he may have shot the Maggiori's (I always wondered if Sgt. Maggiori confronted him? and if that was why he shot them, just wondering about that) I am thinking he started actually planning on killing people once he got to Goleta because he felt his family would not hear of it. It does seem he tried to change his M.O. in So. California. I have a BIG question. Was there ransacking in any of the murder victim's residences. I don't recall hearing of it, if there was so I am wondering if he had no need to ransack because he was concentrated on killing whereas before he wasn't killing, which he may have wanted to do all along, and so vented his rage by ransacking.There was a bloody palm print left at Eva Taylor's. There is not a huge data base to check palm prints, so if a suspect is developed they probably will be able to check the palm print against that specific suspect.Well, I'm rambling again. Too tired to think straight right now. Off to beddie bye, night all.

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I thought about this. It's true enough, I've heard. When did you contact Larry Pool? What was his final word on the matter?



Rereading that OP, it probably wasn't a sex crime. The killer probably went through that drawer because old people might store cash there. If the killer were the Visalia Ransacker, wouldn't he have gone through a few more drawers or cabinets? And did they get any fingerprints! "Investigator Pool says that sometimes youth who commit murder, commit their first murder on an easy victim (a sleeping elderly woman?), and then don't kill again for years so he doesn't feel that the continuum of violence is necessarily a factor to consider."I thought about this. It's true enough, I've heard. When did you contact Larry Pool? What was his final word on the matter?Rereading that OP, it probably wasn't a sex crime. The killer probably went through that drawer because old people might store cash there. If the killer were the Visalia Ransacker, wouldn't he have gone through a few more drawers or cabinets? And did they get any fingerprints!



Interesting about Pool's statement. That makes sense and I think there's some precedence for it (e.g. see the posts that Port made:



Keep in mind, this is just a TWELVE days after the first believed VR crime (4/6/74).

Right, I don't think it was a sex crime, but if sex was the motive, not burglary, then yes, we're talking about a different kind of profile.Interesting about Pool's statement. That makes sense and I think there's some precedence for it (e.g. see the posts that Port made: earonsgsk.proboards.com/thread/29/san-joaquin-valley-murders) Keep in mind, this is just a TWELVE days after the first believed VR crime (4/6/74).

Oh to answer your other question...I last heard from Investigator Pool in December 2012. Then he retired and I haven't heard from him since. He wanted me to keep giving him information but did say that he could not run DNA on all poi's just the very top tier that met certain criteria. He did acknowledge that perhaps that is why GSK has not been caught. Perhaps GSK does not fit all the criteria. Perhaps he didn't live in the areas of interest for instance. So if one of my poi's cannot be found to have lived in all locations, they won't run DNA. He said due to budget problems those are the constraints he has to live with.

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I know this is a small detail. I was wondering about the Raytheon screwdriver. I know from experience that companies like Raytheon, Pratt and Whitney, Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin pay special attention to their tools. I have family that works for Lockheed and every morning they have to have their tools checked out to them. When they worked for Bell they were given a very nice rolling toolbox and new tools. I read that SBRC became a Raytheon unit and that two of the victims worked there. Also that Delco, which started SBRC, worked on the F18 that has a link to "AFC" or "A4FC". I suppose that half the town may have had a connection to Raytheon at one point but are there any other connections to consider?



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I know this is a small detail. I was wondering about the Raytheon screwdriver. I know from experience that companies like Raytheon, Pratt and Whitney, Bell Helicopter and Lockheed Martin pay special attention to their tools. I have family that works for Lockheed and every morning they have to have their tools checked out to them. When they worked for Bell they were given a very nice rolling toolbox and new tools. I read that SBRC became a Raytheon unit and that two of the victims worked there. Also that Delco, which started SBRC, worked on the F18 that has a link to "AFC" or "A4FC". I suppose that half the town may have had a connection to Raytheon at one point but are there any other connections to consider?

Yes, Raytheon is a major employer in Goleta/Santa Barbara.



I am pretty sure I remember correctly that Greg Sanchez worked at Burroughs Corp. in Goleta though. Sheri Domingo was a computer technician but I don't know where she worked, (I am wondering if she also worked at Burroughs and possibly that is how she met Greg?)



There was a poi that worked at Raytheon and due to the screwdriver being found at Eva Taylor's, he was thoroughly checked out and eliminated. But just because they checked out one person that they probably had some previous LE encounter, doesn't mean there wasn't a Raytheon connection because GSK apparently was pretty good at flying under the Radar. If he had no previous LE encounters, he would not have been checked out.





Computer/college/university connections: (There is also a strong medical connection)



Five victims in Sacramento attended the same computer lab at CSUS. Four were nursing students.



There was the Goleta stabbing of the dog incident 9/24/79, the first day of instruction for the Fall Semester at UCSB.



10/01/79 H/H were attacked and thank God escaped. Both were computer programmers at UCSB. (I don't know if they also worked at Raytheon or elsewhere in addition. It seems like I heard they did but can't be sure of that, so if anyone else can clarify, please weigh in.)



The first UCSB computer lab opened the same month that H/H were attacked.



Conquistador extensively researched the school connection, computer connection as well as the medical connection. When a get a few minutes, I think I will post it somewhere on the board under the appropriate heading. Which I will have to figure out what heading that should be and I want to give him credit for his great work. Yes, Raytheon is a major employer in Goleta/Santa Barbara.I am pretty sure I remember correctly that Greg Sanchez worked at Burroughs Corp. in Goleta though. Sheri Domingo was a computer technician but I don't know where she worked, (I am wondering if she also worked at Burroughs and possibly that is how she met Greg?)There was a poi that worked at Raytheon and due to the screwdriver being found at Eva Taylor's, he was thoroughly checked out and eliminated. But just because they checked out one person that they probably had some previous LE encounter, doesn't mean there wasn't a Raytheon connection because GSK apparently was pretty good at flying under the Radar. If he had no previous LE encounters, he would not have been checked out.Computer/college/university connections: (There is also a strong medical connection)Five victims in Sacramento attended the same computer lab at CSUS. Four were nursing students.There was the Goleta stabbing of the dog incident 9/24/79, the first day of instruction for the Fall Semester at UCSB.10/01/79 H/H were attacked and thank God escaped. Both were computer programmers at UCSB. (I don't know if they also worked at Raytheon or elsewhere in addition. It seems like I heard they did but can't be sure of that, so if anyone else can clarify, please weigh in.)The first UCSB computer lab opened the same month that H/H were attacked.Conquistador extensively researched the school connection, computer connection as well as the medical connection. When a get a few minutes, I think I will post it somewhere on the board under the appropriate heading. Which I will have to figure out what heading that should be and I want to give him credit for his great work.

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Member Back to Top Post by albion on Did H/H work at SBRC? I believe one of the H's worked at Raytheon but that may have been after SBRC became Raytheon. Something else I thought was interesting is that Burroughs has a main office in PA. Geko found an article saying that he was being transferred to another facility but not the one in PA. PA seems to keep my attention for a number of reasons.



I know this is a small detail, but when they checked out the screwdriver and the Raytheon employees they probsbly weren't considering the ons attacks as well? Did LE consider children of Raytheon employees? It seems too similar and possibly had some kind of personal relationship aside from the neighborhood. I know the employees at Lockheed where my family worked are union and they most likely have some good records, is Raytheon union as well?