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Six bodies found at rural
California ranch home
GARNER VALLEY, Calif. — An in
vestigator for the district attorney’s
office was found dead Tuesday in his
sprawling ranch home along with
five other people, including three
children, who were all shot to death
in their beds in the middle of the
night, authorities said.
Sheriff Bob Doyle said detectives
have not reached any conclusions
about the slayings, but they had not
ruled out a murder-suicide. The sher
iff said there was no evidence of a
break-in or struggle in any of the
rooms, and he added that the “com
-munity is in no danger.”
“We are not at this time looking for
a suspect,” he said.
David McGowan, 44, was found
dead of a gunshot wound to the head
close to the entrance of the home,
Doyle said at a news conference. A
handgun and a phone, which may
have been used to call 911, were
found near his body.
A 14-year-old boy, two girls —
ages 8 and 10 — and two adult
women were found in beds through
out the house, all of them shot in the
head. Names of the victims were
withheld pending positive identifica
tion, Doyle said.
“The beds were undisturbed. The
house itself was undisturbed. It did
not appear that the house had been
ransacked,” Doyle said.
The sheriff said someone called 911
from the house at 4:33 a.m. A 911 dis
patcher didn’t hear any voices on the
line, but was able to identify the
sounds of the telephone hitting the
wall and a gunshot, Doyle said.
“It was pretty much no one on the
other end of the phone. There was
some noise that was heard by dis
patch,” he said.
McGowan was a five-year veteran
of the Riverside County district attor
ney’s office and previously worked as
a detective with the Cathedral City
Police Department.
Public records show David and
Karen McGowan bought the 4.5-acre
property and 3,331-square-foot ranch
house for $425,000 in 2000.
Neighbors said they were shocked
by the scene unfolding nearby.
“It’s just really quiet here,” said
David Merriman, whose parents live
about a mile from the McGowans. “A
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Father arrested in slaying
of two girls in Illinois
ZION, 111. — A man was arrested on
murder charges Tliesday in the Moth
er’s Day stabbings of his 8-year-old
daughter and the little girl’s best friend,
who were killed after they went biking
in a park.
Jerry Hobbs, who was recently re
leased from prison, had led police to
the bodies just off a wooded bike path
early Monday, claiming he spotted
them while searching for his daugh
ter, the girl’s grandfather, Arthur Hol
labaugh, told The Associated Press.
Hobbs, 34, was questioned through
the day about the deaths of Laura
Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9.
Both girls had been beaten and
stabbed repeatedly in the woods and
left to die, Lake County Coroner
Richard Keller said. The girls were
found side-by-side and did not appear
to have been sexually assaulted. They
appeared to have been killed Sunday
evening near the area where they
were found, he said.
Lake County State’s Attorney
Michael Waller said in announcing
the charges Tliesday that he could not
discuss possible motives for the
killings, but prosecutors said more de
tails would come out when Hobbs ap
pears in bond court today.
Authorities said Tliesday that addi
tional charges could be filed, but they
did not specify what they might be.
“This horrific crime has terrorized
and traumatized the Zion community
and I think it’s safe to say people of
good will everywhere,” Waller said.
Hollabaugh said the family would
not be able to afford an attorney. The
public defender’s office said Tliesday
it had not been asked to take the case.
Outside the Tobias home, Krystal’s
15-year-old brother, Alberto, said he
had never met Hobbs but knew
Hobbs was searching with his own
family the night his sister was killed.
“We never thought a father would
do that to a daughter,” Alberto Segu
ra said. “They were just babies.
They didn’t do anything wrong.”
In front of the Hollabaughs’
house, “No Trespassing” and “Keep
Out” signs printed in black and or
ange had been posted on a fence.
Hobbs has an extensive criminal
history dating back to 1990 in Texas,
including prior arrests for assault
and resisting arrest, according
to state Department of Public
Safety records.
Before being released April 12, he
had served two years in a Texas
prison for chasing neighbors with
a chain saw during an argument
with Laura’s mother, Sheila Hol
labaugh, according to Wichita
County, Texas, Assistant District
Attorney Rick Mahler.
No one was hurt in the 2001 inci
dent, and someone subdued Hobbs
by hitting him in the back with a
shovel, Mahler said. Hobbs was sen
tenced to 10 years of probation but
failed to appear for required meet
ings, so his probation was revoked
in 2003 and he was imprisoned.
Hobbs had been living with the
Hollabaughs after his release, Arthur
Hollabaugh said. He said he worried
authorities might be trying to rail
road Hobbs in their search for the
girls’ killer.
“Jerry just got out of prison for ag
gravated assault, and I think they’re
holding that against him,” Hol
labaugh said before police an
nounced charges against Hobbs. “I
don’t think he did it.”
He described the search for his
missing granddaughter and said the
two men were in the woods shortly
before dawn Monday when they
spotted Laura’s bike partway down
a ravine in the brush.
Minutes later, he said, Hobbs
was screaming that he had found
the bodies.
— The Associated Press