Ventura County is a pioneer when it comes to bringing killers to justice through DNA. In 1989, a 35-year-old woman was found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 63-year-old man at the old Top Hat burger stand in Ventura a year earlier. The case marked the first time “genetic fingerprinting” evidence
Ventura County is a pioneer when it comes to bringing killers to justice through DNA. In 1989, a 35-year-old woman was found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 63-year-old man at the old Top Hat burger stand in Ventura a year earlier. The case marked the first time that “genetic fingerprinting”
Kevin Ray James On April 28, 1997, Monica Lynne Leech, 39, left her home in Camarillo for her job as a teller at Western Financial Bank in Thousand Oaks. When she said goodbye to her two children and her husband, it would be the last time they’d see her alive. At 10:15 a.m. two armed
TRAGEDY Monica Lynne Leech, at right, was shot in the head during a 1997 bank robbery in Thousand Oaks, even after complying with robbers’ demands. She is shown in an older photo with her husband, Floyd Leech, and children. Photos courtesy of VCSO On April 28, 1997, Monica Lynne Leech, 39, left her home in Camarillo
Kevin Ray James On April 28, 1997, Monica Lynne Leech, 39, left her home in Camarillo for her job as a teller at Western Financial Bank in Thousand Oaks. When she said goodbye to her two children and her husband, it probably never occurred to her that it would be the last time they would