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Learn more What: “Be Smart — Don’t Start” forum Who: Speakers include Jon Daily, Recovery Happens Counseling Services; Ilya Bezuglov, Davis police detective; Trevor Edens, Davis police sergeant (formerly of YONET); and Courtenay Tessler, Davis High School head counselor When: 6-8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 14 Where: Brunelle Performance Hall, DHS, 315 W. 14th St. An alarming increase in […]
A Woodland man was due for arraignment on attempted murder charges today in connection with his alleged attack on a woman — identified by police as the suspect’s aunt — Sunday evening. Michael Maloney Jr., 29, is being held without bail at the Yolo County Jail, where he was booked Sunday night. Woodland police Sgt. […]
A traffic violation helped police solve both a stolen-vehicle and car burglary case early Monday morning, according to reports. Lt. Tom Waltz said an officer stopped a vehicle for speeding at about 1:30 a.m. at F Street and Anderson Road, discovering during a license-plate check that the car had been reported stolen. The three occupants […]
WOODLAND — As his stalking and criminal-threats trial grew nearer, William Carl Gardner III was getting desperate. “Just help me out with my court and stop acting stupid. …Start out by dropping the restraining order,” Gardner wrote in a text message to his former girlfriend, Leslie Pinkston, on Oct. 8, 2013, according to testimony offered […]
Davis police are investigating an incident in which a 15-year-old boy reported being robbed at knifepoint Thursday. Lt. Tom Waltz said the teen was on the bike path between the library and Veterans’ Memorial Center on East 14th Street at about 11:30 a.m. when the suspect approached him and demanded money. The boy gave over […]
Yolo County Animal Services is investigating an alleged animal hoarding case in which several dozen cats were seized from a Woodland home last week. Capt. Larry Cecchettini of the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office said animal services officers were alerted to the situation Monday by county Child Protective Services officials “advising they had information about the […]
Three people were thrown against a Unitrans bus window Wednesday evening when the driver braked suddenly, but no one was hospitalized, according to the Davis Fire Department. Police reports indicate the bus window shattered as a result of the impact, which occurred at about 5:30 p.m. at the intersection of Cowell Boulevard and Valdora Street. […]
“A year and a half ago, a cloud of fear descended over Davis. … Now finally, with the verdicts that we’ve seen, I think we’re seeing the cloud lift and some fear abate.” — Davis Police Chief Landy Black ———— “This defendant is probably one of the most troubling defendants I’ve ever encountered. You can […]
From the very start, Davis police knew they had a highly unusual crime on their hands.
It wasn’t just the rarity of murder in Davis, a city that embraces its “Mayberry reputation,” as Police Chief Landy Black describes it. It was also the extent of Oliver “Chip” Northup Jr. and Claudia Maupin’s stabbing injuries — so numerous, so severe, that the slayings appeared to be deeply personal.
“We kept an open mind,” Black said, considering any and all suspects but also focusing on those who knew the elderly couple — from their own relatives to the convicted criminals whose appellate cases Northup, a longtime attorney, had worked on in recent years.
Nothing, not a single piece of evidence at the crime scene, pointed …
WOODLAND — The sanity phase of the Daniel Marsh homicide trial got underway Monday much as expected — with mental-health professionals offering dueling opinions as to whether the 17-year-old knew right from wrong on the night he fatally stabbed Davis residents Oliver “Chip” Northup and Claudia Maupin. Marsh, convicted Friday of two counts of first-degree […]
WOODLAND — Moments after a Yolo County jury declared a Davis teen guilty of first-degree murder for the fatal stabbings of her mother and stepfather, Victoria Hurd enveloped the case’s two prosecutors in tight embraces. “Gratitude, grateful,” Hurd, surrounded by the family members who joined her for every day of the monthlong trial, said of […]
Following a monthlong trial, it took a Yolo County jury about two hours today to find Davis teen Daniel Marsh guilty of first-degree murder for his role in last year’s brutal stabbing murders of Oliver “Chip” Northup and Claudia Maupin.
In doing so, the eight-woman, four-man panel rejected a defense argument that Marsh had been debilitated by the effects of antidepressant medications on the night of the April 14, 2013, murders, ruling he acted willfully, with deliberation and premeditation, when he killed the well-known couple.
Moments after his confession ended the two-month police hunt for a Davis couple’s killer, Daniel Marsh posed a question to the FBI agent across the interview room.
“Was there actually any evidence left behind, at the crime scene?” Marsh, then 16, asked Special Agent Chris Campion in a video recording of his June 17, 2013, interview at the Davis police station.
Other than some unknown DNA that needed comparing to Marsh’s own genetic profile, police found …
WOODLAND — With jurors in the Daniel Marsh double-homicide trial slated to receive the case later this week, prosecutors brought in two rebuttal witnesses Tuesday who challenged a defense expert’s conclusion that brain damage and medication side-effects put Marsh in a “dissociative state” on the night of the murders. Dr. Douglas Jacobs, a Massachusetts physician […]
