• A Survivor’s Courage: The Last Known Victim of Hulbert

    A Survivor’s Courage: The Last Known Victim of Hulbert

    I recently received a call from the last known victim of Hulbert. At the time of her attack, she had her two very small children in the car with her when Hulbert approached her in a mall parking lot. He told her that one of her tires was flat—his ruse—before pulling a gun and shoving…

  • Mass murder at Cal State Fullerton

    Mass murder at Cal State Fullerton

    I’m about one month away from the release of my second book in the true crime genre. This one tells the haunting story of a mass murder that took place on July 12, 1976, inside the library building at California State University, Fullerton. That morning, Edward Charles Allaway—a campus custodian—walked into his workplace with a…

  • Carmen Banderas and the Break in the Case

    Carmen Banderas and the Break in the Case

    She was just pulling into the lot at Fullerton Community College—ordinary day, ordinary routine. But he was watching. And in his own words later, “I knew that was the one.” Carmen Banderas became his next target. What followed was an ordeal no one should have to endure. But Carmen survived it—and more than that, she…

  • The One Who Lived

    The One Who Lived

    The day after Gina Marie Tisher’s body was found—January 6, 1976—the killer struck again. This time, he kidnapped a young college student in broad daylight, right in the parking lot of Fullerton Community College. He watched her pull in, picked his moment, and moved fast. This was how he operated—calculated, controlled, and without hesitation. She…

  • The Couple with the Tip

    The Couple with the Tip

    We had been working the case for a while, closing in, but we still didn’t have a name. That changed on the morning of January 30, 1976. A call came into the department from a young marriage counselor in Placentia, the city just east of Fullerton. His name was Ron Rockenbach, and he had something…