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Yeah, yeah. Nighttime net of security was set up at all entrances leading to Dr OTAs mountaintop home after fireman responding to a fire. In that home monday evening discovered the bodies of dr oh to his wife Virginia sons, Derek 12 and Taggart 11 and his secretary

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Dorothy Cadwallader. All were found shot to death, their bodies thrown into the OTA swimming pool. Dr ODA had been practicing ophthalmology in Santa Cruz since 1960, maintaining an office in Santa Cruz and in Gilroy he specialized in Cataract surgery. Five victims were shot in the back

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of the head, Doctor OTA twice each of the others once to other members of the OTA family, two daughters of dr oh, to escape the horror which struck here they are both away at boarding school. Senseless savage. The worst crime in the county's history. These some

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of the phrases people here are groping for to try to express their shock and revulsion at the crime. Nearby neighbor Emmy Chandler, a retired painter has another thought. This is an example, he says of the Lord fading out of our lives well I know them just

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as a neighbor and friend as they come by. Why they would speak to me. And uh and they've asked me up to the house to visit them and looked the place over up their their new house. And yeah, that's about what sort of people were they.

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They were very, very quiet, sociable people, people with their wealth and me just uh poor man. Why they treated me very nice things like this happening to close neighbors must be quite a shock to you. It is a very, very shocking to me and it hurts

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me deep on account of them being such nice people. Did you notice anything strange last night? No, I was home at the time. Surely I was home in the evening. And the only thing I knew I didn't even know the house on fire. The fella come

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to the house and monday two cars parked out here and they wanted to use the telephone. He wanted, I said, you go ahead. Years of telephone. And he said, I'm no need because somebody's gonna turned in here. They come and he heard the sirens are coming

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and I come out. I looked up there in the house and on fire. I don't know who the two guys were. They want to use the phone. No, they know. I don't know their names or anything. He was just uh, pastor advised in the car seat,

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etc. Do you have any apprehension about living here now that this has happened up the hill? A lot of me. I'm an old man. I've only got a few of them. And I trust in the Lord, he takes care of me. So that's all there is.

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There. Does this give you any personal thoughts about why and how something like this can happen. It just proves to me that the world is getting upset on things like this here and uh, it really scares you to look forward in the world, the way the

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way things is, and it seems like the Lord is just fading out in it and that's the way it looks to me. Mhm. Santa Cruz County Sheriff Doug James heading the investigation here told reporters earlier at his office that the victims had also been bound with

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silk scarves. They were tied, they tied scarves and stockings with their arms in front of them. Uh, there was no indication that they had been beaten. Uh, there's a gunshot wound in uh four of the victims and there were two in uh, dr Oda. People are

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going to relate this to the Manson type killing. Is there any indication of just said that the same kind of barbarous actions? Well, I was certainly whoever did. It was certainly barbarous. Uh, I certainly don't want to, we have no indication that it was hippies, or

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straits or whatever. We're just pursuing any possibility that we can, I would say that probably have to be more than one person to do what was done. A weapon, no weapons have been found, that there's an underlying reason, something was trying to be covered up in

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the house. No, that's still under investigation. We don't know it, they could have said it to attract attention. It could be that we have no motive. That could be robbery. There's no way to tell yet, because we have had no next of kin to go in.

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And what kind of checking, pardon me, uh, anything and everything that we can, uh, possible, uh, hippies that may have lived in the area, possible business deals. He may have had just about. Anything that we can think of. My first indication whether it was a mannequin

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and I don't. First boy I saw, but then when I saw the others, I knew they were people you can't those care that they the questions to be answered. Of course at this point are who and why. And at the moment, one of the best leads

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in hopes of finding that answer is a 1968 green, Oldsmobile vista cruiser with license plates. W ZH 511 It belongs to dr alta and it's missing what happened? Yeah. Pat O'brien For eyewitness news cycle. Yeah.