Lodi News-Sentinel, June 28, 2003

The following five articles concerning unsolved cases were published together in the Lodi News-Sentinel. The articles are organized by length.

Some of the solved cases mentioned in the first article but left unnamed are the following:

1) 1982 Vacaville stabbing: [TBA]

2) 1972 Fresno killing: [TBA]

3) 1982 Los Gatos student murder: [TBA]

4) 1981 San Jose stabbing: [TBA]

5) 1965 El Cajon murder: The murder of Louis Mercer and assault of his wife Lola Mercer by Clyde Carl Wilkerson, who also murdered 19-year-old Cheryl Burnett in El Cajon that same year.

6) 1979 SLO murder: [TBA]        

Relevant cases mentioned in the other articles are those of:

• William Gary Hall   —   In the second, third, and fourth articles
• Nina Wilkerson   —   In the second and third articles
• Penny Sue Coyle   —   In the second article
• Lester Marks [SOLVED]   —   In the fifth article, as well as unnamed in the third 
• Jenny Steinmetz   —   In the fifth article 
• The murder of a teenager in Linden c.1973 [TBA]   —   In the fifth article  

Read, David. "DNA evidence helps thaw cold cases, some more than 35 years old." Lodi News-Sentinel. June 28, 2003. Accessed through NewsBank.

Bohm, Layla. "Investigators don't forget unsolved cases." Lodi News-Sentinel. June 28, 2003. Accessed through NewsBank. Also available online.

Pearson, Jennifer. "Unsolved murders leave families with no closure." Lodi News-Sentinel. June 28, 2003. Accessed through NewsBank.

 

Bohm, Layla. "Technology may help solve past killings." Lodi News-Sentinel. June 28, 2003. Accessed through NewsBank.  

Bohm, Layla. "Sheriff's detective has tough task solving old murders." Lodi News-Sentinel. June 28, 2003. Accessed through NewsBank.