Cali2STL
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8 years ago I was researching Ortega Highway (SR 74) that stretches from Lake Elsinore to San Juan Capistrano, CA. Ortega Highway is notorious for for mainly its grisly car and motorcycle accidents due to its mountainous roads that serves as a shortcut to commuters who live in cheaper Riverside County but work in Orange County. Ortega Highway is also known for being the site of murders and a dumping ground for the murdered. A simple Google search will give you the names of victims such as Samantha Runnion, Jane Bautista, Kenneth Stahl and Carolyn Oppy-Stahl along with countless Jane and John Doe's. The same search will give you the name of monsters like Randy Kraft, William Bonin, and Patrick Kearney.
During my research two names have haunted me to this day even after I abandoned my research. Genise Rispin and Edwin Miller. A teenage couple that disappeared on their way to a go cart track in the late summer of 1970. Their bodies discovered days and miles apart weeks after they disappeared. I was obsessed with learning more about them and who committed this crime which remains unsolved to this day. I did some research and email correspondence with people that knew and loved them but quit after I was told by a loved one that someone confessed years ago while in prison and has since died.
I moved to St. Louis in 2013 and had tucked away the names Genise and Edwin to the back of my mind until I got an email from Daniel Salcedo, an investigator for Orange County Sheriff Department's Cold Case Task Force on August 21, 2017 (email attached). I talked to him and sent all the info I had (I keep everything) and asked him to let me know when they have non sensitive developments for closure's sake. He assured me he would but I haven't heard from him again. Assuming that there has been no developments, he has forgotten me, or chosen not to contact me. Regardless, I am still wanting to know what happen to Genise and Edwin. I NEED TO KNOW!
Anyways, I feel I should get their story out there to the WS community because back during my adult student days (CJ degree) and gaining interest in the Ortega Highway after the Samantha Runnion murder... I actually went to the Alejandro Avila trial one day and WSers were there also. One thing that is true is WSers get things done! I have theories about Genise and Edwin's murders but in the meantime here is what is known based on newspaper articles.
Chris
During my research two names have haunted me to this day even after I abandoned my research. Genise Rispin and Edwin Miller. A teenage couple that disappeared on their way to a go cart track in the late summer of 1970. Their bodies discovered days and miles apart weeks after they disappeared. I was obsessed with learning more about them and who committed this crime which remains unsolved to this day. I did some research and email correspondence with people that knew and loved them but quit after I was told by a loved one that someone confessed years ago while in prison and has since died.
I moved to St. Louis in 2013 and had tucked away the names Genise and Edwin to the back of my mind until I got an email from Daniel Salcedo, an investigator for Orange County Sheriff Department's Cold Case Task Force on August 21, 2017 (email attached). I talked to him and sent all the info I had (I keep everything) and asked him to let me know when they have non sensitive developments for closure's sake. He assured me he would but I haven't heard from him again. Assuming that there has been no developments, he has forgotten me, or chosen not to contact me. Regardless, I am still wanting to know what happen to Genise and Edwin. I NEED TO KNOW!
Anyways, I feel I should get their story out there to the WS community because back during my adult student days (CJ degree) and gaining interest in the Ortega Highway after the Samantha Runnion murder... I actually went to the Alejandro Avila trial one day and WSers were there also. One thing that is true is WSers get things done! I have theories about Genise and Edwin's murders but in the meantime here is what is known based on newspaper articles.
- Both disappeared August 29, 1970 after 9:30 PM in Elsinore (present day Lake Elsinore)
- Edwin was discovered in a shallow grave August 30th on Ortega Highway 15 miles from Lake Elsinore and 14 miles east from Genise's body.
- Genise was discovered September 13th near Camino Capistrano Rd. in San Juan Capistrano under some trees.
- Genise was strangled but not sexually assaulted (fully clothed).
- Edwin was strangled (fully clothed).
Chris
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