She and her husband had seen a car leaving their cul-de-sac at around 11:45 PM. She had come from Sweden the previous September to work as a governess for a wealthy physician and his wife, tending their six-year-old son and the wife’s daughter by a previous marriage. Two men were charged with murder Thursday in connection with the disappearance of a firefighter from West Covina whose remains were apparently burned after he was killed during a … He has done the difficult part, to pull out the most vital parts of the trials. Thanks to Callie Linder and the rest of my reading committee and to Tony and Gina Capobianco, for haunting libraries with notable dedication. in West Covina, Chronicle of the Finch-Tregoff Case The car had also been booby-trapped to explode once the Santa suit was removed, and though the vehicle exploded, no one was injured. Dr. R. Bernard Finch had murdered his wife, Barbara Jean. And the bulletins said police were looking for the man she loved, Dr. R. Bernard Finch. Then: Angry voices, a woman screaming for help. I would add that he has given the case a “soul.”. When I came to the part of Dr. Finch’s testimony, I had to pause to the next day. A Murder in West Covina book. West Cameron Avenue & West Garvey Avenue North. Welcome back. The six-year-old boy was asleep. “Police,” the voice said. She had just checked on the children she watched. The man lifted the semi-conscious older woman; she wobbled, unable to stand on her own. They opened the patio door and began running to smaller door of the garage, forty feet away. Instead, she talked of life in the San Gabriel valley during those times. I searched Eva’s book for any hint of the future. I was about to look into the past, to a time when a tidal wave of world attention washed onto West Covina. And she could see the revolver in his hand. With a “Do It Yourself Murder Kit,” they stalked out the house until Barbara returned from an evening at the local tennis club. On December 24, 2008, the Ortega family invited all five of their adult children and their families to their home in Covina, California, a quiet, low-crime community about 22 miles east of Los Angeles. I think that he decided that he wasn’t just gonna kill her, but he was gonna kill everything that she loved and take it, wipe it off the face of the earth.”. R. Bernard Finch, MD, and his 18-year-old paramour, Carole Tregoff, murdered the doctor's wife in West Covina, California, and could have gotten away with it had it not been for the testimony of the family's au pare, Marie-Anne Lidholm, who stood up to the country's best defense lawyers, including Grant Cooper and Robert Adam Neeb. TABLE OF CONTENTS, Prologue: The Cardinal…………………………………………………………………………………..2, PART I The Death of Barbara Jean Finch, the Preliminary Hearings and Grand Jury Indictments…………………………………………………………………………………………………..5, One: The Death of Barbara Jean Finch………………..……………………………………..5, Two: The Library………………..………………..………………..………………………………12, Three: Investigation Begins, Freeway Pursuit, and Prior Fame…………………………..14, Four: Finch Arrest in Las Vegas and Statement of Carole Tregoff Pappa……………… 41, Five: Booking for Murder, Second Statement of Carole Tregoff Pappa, and Visit to the Crime Scene…………………………………………………………………………………….61, Six: Arraignment and Preliminary Hearing of R. Bernard Finch, Arrest of Carole Tregoff Pappa……………………………………………………………………………………………68, Seven: Carole Tregoff Pappa Booked for Murder Pappa Preliminary Hearing..……….103, Eight: Arraignment in Superior Court, Securing of Assets…..……………………………123, Nine: Information from Las Vegas and Minnesota, Bail for Carole Tregoff Pappa.……128, Ten: Grand Jury Indictments, Motions to Separate and Move Trial.……………………139, PART I1 The First Trial……………….……………………………..………………………………145, One: Jury Selection, Pretrial Motions……………….…….……………………………….145, Two: Opening Remarks of the Prosecution…………….…………………………………168, Three: Court Visit to Larkhill Drive……………….…………………………………………179, Four : Testimony of Marie Anne Lidholm……………….…………………………………….184, Five: Testimony of Patti Daugherty and other witnesses…………………………………198, Six: Testimony of Donald Williams, James Patrick Cody, and others…………………..225, Seven: Exhibit 60, Second Testimony of Marie Anne Lidholm…………………………..258, Eight: Opening Remarks in Defense of R. Bernard Finch………………………………290, Nine: Testimony of R. Bernard Finch……….…………………………………………………..296, Ten: Witnesses for the Defense of Carole Tregoff Pappa……………………………………392, Eleven: Testimony of Carole Tregoff Pappa……….…………………………………………396, Twelve: Final Witnesses and Summation of Clifford Crail…………………………………..428, Thirteen: Summation of Defense Counsel for Carole Tregoff Pappa……….………….450, Fourteen: Summation of Grant B. Cooper.………………………………………………………461, Fifteen: Summation of Fred Whichello.……………………………………………………………480, Sixteen: Jury Deliberations………….……….……………………………………………………..499, PART III Subsequent Trials………….……….……………………………………………………………….508, One: The Second Trail……….……….………………………………………………………………508, Two: The Thrid Trail………….……….………………………………………………………………519, PART IV………….……….…………………………………………………………………………………………532, One: Chino, California……………………………………………………………………………………532, Two: Long Beach, California…………………………………………………………………………….535, Three: “Carl’s Junior” and Other Places………………………………………………………………539.

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