CA CA - Barbara Hall, 29, Pomona, 12 Aug 1974

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Does anyone have any information on either of these unsolved cases?

On August 12, 1974, Barbara Elaine Hall was reported missing after she failed to make it home after work at a daycare facility. The next day, her fully clothed body was found on a bridle trail in Claremont, California.

On April 16, 1979, Vicky Lynne Caswick, a 9th-grade student at Cerritos High School, was kidnapped on her way to school. Thirteen months later her body was found south of the Pomona Freeway in Rowland Heights.

Even if all you know is more details about the crimes themselves, please let me know.

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Geocam
 
I don't know if there is any connection between the two cases you mention, or if there is a connection with the below individual, but Ellwood Leroy Leuschner was a serial rapist and murderer who was released from prison in California about the same time that the first woman went missing. Although I do not know the specifics of the 1974 case, Mr. Leuschner might be a person of interest.

You can check out the thread in this forum titled: Meet Ellwood Leroy LEUSCHNER serial rapist and murderer at the following link.

Link:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13243&highlight=leuschner
 
From December 2010:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/31/local/la-me-cold-case-20101231

When Robert Edward Stansbury died seven years ago while awaiting execution on San Quentin's death row, some worried that he would take the full extent of his crimes to his grave. Stansbury, an ice cream truck driver, was serving time for raping and killing a 10-year-old girl. He had a long record of sexual assaults, at least once using his ice cream truck as a ruse. Detectives long suspected there were more victims but could not prove it...

Detectives said DNA taken from Stansbury after an unrelated felony conviction was matched to evidence collected in the 1974 slaying of Barbara Hall, a 29-year-old developmentally disabled woman who was strangled near a Claremont horse trail.

Investigators believe the Pomona woman was waiting for a bus home from a continuation school where she worked caring for infants. The day of her disappearance, there was a bus strike — which Hall apparently didn't know when she arrived at her bus stop. She was never seen alive again.
 
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Barbara Hall, murdered in 1974, and Robert Edward "The Ice Cream Man" Stansbury, who died on death row. He has been linked to her killing through DNA.

LINK:
Child-killer who cheated justice on death row seven years ago is nailed by DNA for murder in 1974 | Daily Mail Online
 
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Robert Edward "The Ice Cream Man" Stansbury

In the summer of 1974, twenty-nine-year old Barbara Hall was found dead near a horse trail in the San Dimas/Claremont area near Pomona, California. Her life was tragically ended at the hands of a murderer who had kidnapped her from Pomona, sexually assaulted her, and took her life.

Her murder remained unsolved until December 2010 when the Cold Case Unit of L.A. County Sheriff’s Homicide, working with the Sheriff’s Crime Lab, was able to use more advanced DNA testing capabilities to solve the case.

Through their analysis of DNA found on Hall in 1974, a Pomona man who drove an ice cream truck throughout the San Gabriel Valley during the 1970’s was proven to be the murderer.

Robert Edward Stansbury died in 2003 in San Quentin prison at age 60. He was serving time on death row for the 1982 rape and murder of a ten-year-old girl whose body was found in Pasadena, after being abducted from Baldwin Park in Los Angeles County.

Sheriff’s Cold Case Homicide investigators re-opened Hall’s case in 2010 and found there was sufficient DNA that in past years would not necessarily have been sufficient to identify the murderer of Barbara Hall. Sheriff’s Crime Lab (Scientific Services Bureau) technicians soon got a DNA match, and proved the killer was Stansbury.

The story of this horrible crime began on August 13, 1974, when Barbara was found strangled to death on a trail near Mills Avenue and Mount Baldy Road, in an area bordering unincorporated San Dimas and Claremont. At the time, homicide investigators learned that Barbara, who was developmentally disabled, had been abducted from Pomona on August 12, 1974. The case lingered for decades until it was re-opened by Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Cold Case Unit Sgt. Richard Longshore in 2005.

In re-tracing the suspect’s steps back over forty-one-years ago, Cold Case detectives learned that Stansbury drove an ice cream truck in the San Gabriel Valley and the unincorporated areas of East Los Angeles. Stansbury used the truck as a ruse to commit his criminal acts.

His criminal history included sexual assaults on adults and minors of both genders, dating back to 1963...

LINK:

Mug Shot Monday: Robert Edward Stansbury, 1963-1982 - HistoricalCrimeDetective.com
 

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