Send Robert a Text! Notorious Bakersfield Brief: A Greenlawn Cemetery worker was shot while on his lunch break in front of his coworkers in 1974. Ruby Lee Jackson Meriweather was murdered in 2000. Her case went unsolved for n...
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Send Robert a Text! It was a quiet afternoon in 2013 in the Rosedale community when neighbors heard gunfire. What began as a family’s desperate attempt to save a troubled young man from addiction would end in tragedy. Click H...
Send Robert a Text! Nearly a decade before the murder that would shock Bakersfield, Dennis Weis had been convicted in Illinois for a brutal sexual assault against an ex-girlfriend who tried to leave him. By the mid-1980s, he’...
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Send Robert a Text! Inside a charming Northeast Bakersfield Craftsman-style home lived Joe and Margy LiCastro—he, a 91-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor; she, his 84-year-old wife, known for her grace and kindness. But one cold ...
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Send Robert a Text! Illah O'Malior was a divorced woman living alone in Bakersfield’s Westchester neighborhood when she was murdered in 1952. Purchase this year's Notorious Bakersfield Halloween audio driving tour here: https://2025halloween.supercast.com/ Purchase Notorious Bakersfield: The Book V…
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Send Robert a Text! On a quiet Wednesday morning in October 1996, the staff and patients at a Bakersfield dialysis clinic were going about their routines when tragedy struck. Within moments, a workplace dispute turned deadly,...
Send Robert a Text! Encore: Almost thirty-seven years ago, Lorraine Rodriguez was murdered. She was a single mother to two young daughters. Her case remains unsolved. Purchase Notorious Bakersfield: The Book Volume II here: h...
Send Robert a Text! In the early morning hours of Labor Day 1987, a young couple traveling through Bakersfield made an unexpected stop at a gas station on White Lane. Within minutes, they would become witnesses to a shocking ...
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