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
CRIME SCENE Monica Leech, an employee of Western Financial Bank (shown here in 1997), was killed 26 years ago during a robbery. Courtesy of VCSO 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
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 a year earlier of a 63-year-old man at the old Top Hat burger stand in Ventura. The case marked the first time “genetic fingerprinting” evidence