It was a busy year In Tehama County in 2023. The news included the resolution of a 40-year-old murder case, major changes in Corning within its city government, and the County Round Water Commission continued to make news.
The killer in the Rashell Ward case has been named. On Facebook, Jessica Criss announced that the Tehama County Sheriff’s Office had identified Johnny Coy as the killer. Coy had been in prison since 1989 and died in 2019 while imprisoned.
Tehama County SheriffAfter 14-year-old Rashell Ward was kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and shot dead while walking to her Seventh Day Adventist school in 1983, a notorious serial killer named Henry Lee Lucas took responsibility.Lucas, however, was as mendacious as he was violent, and detectives quickly found inconsistencies in his statement and determined that his confession was one of hundreds of false claims he would make through the years.At another point in the investigation, rumors that the
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