evidence he paid anyone to hurt his wife, by now, kathy had been missing for two full days. and john heckel here are the worse. katherine heckel would never on this earth, abandon those two children. trooper caldwell still did not know if he was working a missing persons case, an abduction, or a homicide. then, on the evening of the third day, investigators caught a big break. they found katherine heckel s car, parked behind a local hospital the, keys were missing. i think they recovered one print of fido no fuss ever identified from the exterior of the car. investigators were pretty sure that someone, possibly her killer, had moved her car to the hospital parking lot. and then, the case had a dead end. days turned to weeks, those weeks stretched into months. kathy heckel was somewhere in the wind. we have dogs come down often,
actually find them? said he heard the ashes had been passed around among sonia s relatives on orders from the man who orchestrated her murder. eric della cruz. said give the ash to my aunt. anti susan. where was she? didn t know. in a city of ants and cemeteries, 20 million haystacks, flurries ashes could be anywhere. the dream of finding them, an impossible peril. so she looked for them another way. , she came to the place, the hospital parking lot. where on sonia s orders, somebody executed her brother. i feel somewhat numb that i
philippines, police detective was just starting an investigation. did anybody see this happen? yes, there is witness but they cannot remember the face of the suspects. could not identify? yes. no identifiable suspects meant no arrests. and the investigation quickly went nowhere. the murder of larry risken, the execution really, here in a hospital parking lot of all places, was devastating for his family back home in the states. but to add insult to the injury, because his wife sonia had jurisdiction over the body, she elected not to bring it back for burial, and instead had him cremated and ensured his ashes remained here in the philippines with somebody.
In the latest Around Town column, news about the winners and honorable mentions in this year s Palo Alto Students Foundation Poetry Contest and a Gunn High student s appointment to the Santa Clara County Youth Task Force.