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how stuff works, or its employees. Christmas time, 1968. All was not calm. All was not bright.

Sergeant, could you briefly describe what apparently happened last night?

We had a double homicide that took place out on a county road sometime after 11 o'clock,

a 16-year-old girl and a 17 year old boy.

How did this incident occur apparently?

Well, they were shot.

Photographer Tom Balmer arrived on the scene.

The night of December 20 was an interesting one.

Photographers back then were ambience chasers.

We had radios with the local police and fire frequencies and we followed what was going on.

I remember a dispatch to Lake Herman Road in Benicia and they said that there were two victims there and they thought it was a murder

suicide. The woman there that was shot was fairly small in size and they were thinking it was an adult and a child.

That was what the original dispatch was as I recall it.

So I headed out that way. It was dark that night out in the bunnies there.

It was

along the side of the bunnies there. It was along the side of the road.

It was fairly quiet, no traffic going by as I recall.

Really not a sense of place there other than just out in the

open. As it turned out there was one person, his name was David Faraday. He had been shot, and his girlfriend Betty Lu Jensen

had also been shot. She was dead at the scene, and they had taken him by ambulance. He had died in route. The woman's body remained under a

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