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1968

All was not calm All All was not bright.

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

We had a devil 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 ambulance 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 boonies 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.

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