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A parole board recommended parole for a convicted murderer. In 2001 Torie Lynn Knapp was brutally stabbed to death by her then 15-year-old son Parker Chamberlin.

This was a gruesome murder that shocked everyone who knew both the victim and the killer. How could a teenager who appeared to have a close and loving relationship with his mother...kill her...and in such a brutal way?

It's a question everyone has-the family, friends of the family, and even the detectives who investigated the case.

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An organized crime ring burglarized the Wickersham Jewelry store in downtown Bakersfield in 1964.  This is that story.

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An airplane carrying the Cal Poly Univesity football team crashed on takeoff from a Toldeo, OH area airport.  Eight players on that flight were from Bakersfield or had ties to Bakersfield.  Four of them perished.


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Glenda Crosley killed her husband Sam by running him down with her car. She claimed spousal abuse as justification for this crime.

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Tony Azevedo was murdered in 1996 while delivering pizzas for Pizzaville USA. This is his story.

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In 1961, Spade Cooley, a Country Music star, brutally murdered his wife in Willow Springs near Tehachapi.

His murder trial in Bakersfield attracted enormous public interest. It was a media spectacle, the likes of which hadn't been seen before, and wouldn't be seen again...until another celebrity...OJ Simpson...was tried for a similar crime...decades later.

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Tom Dertinger called his wife Barbara on the afternoon of January 10, 1986. He told Barbara he was leaving his office to run some errands.

Later that afternoon, Tom called his secretary to tell her he was at the apartment of an acquaintance to buy a three-wheeled motorcycle...an ATV. He told his secretary that he wasn't sure if he'd be done in time to get back to the office to close up...but he'd call back to let her know if she needed to secure the business before she left for the day.

That call never came.

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Link to Newspaper Archive through the Kern County Library.
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When Jimmy and Sharon kissed their mother Patricia Leard goodbye on their way out the door for school on September 5, 1978, that was the last time they ever kissed their mom.

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On May 7, 1954, a domestic dispute turned deadly at the Kern County Juvenile Court building. Two people died and two others were wounded.

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Jack Downing's abandoned station wagon was found near the KERN Radio station on June 4, 1975.  His body was found later that evening in a reservoir two miles away. His murder remain unsolved 47 years later.

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