Identified! CA - Cauc or Hisp Female, 30-50, (Vineyard), Arvin, Kern Co, Mar'11 - Ada Beth Kaplan

[Susikatze]

I'm not registered to use FSO but I'd first confirm the date stamp when the two entries were actually made. Reportedly, volunteers were working with her family tree and distant cousins for three years so there are many possibilities here. However, if somebody made the entry on or near 3/29/11 -- that would be a huge red flag! JMO

Her family likely lost contact with her in 2011. But yeah, if the entry was made close to her actual date of death, whoever put it in should be questioned.
Did she date someone within this timeframe? Who was she associating with? The way she was killed is extremely personal. Overkill type, then removed fingertips to prevent ID and also posing her in a sexually explicit manner without her having been sexually assaulted. I think now that we know her id, it should be relqtively easy to find a suspect. Murderes only tend to remove fingertips, teeth etc. if a connection was easily made if the victim was identified, hence, it is all about preventing the ID first place.

 

[Warwick1991]

I searched in My Heritage, where I have an account, and I found that an Ada Beth Kaplan was married to a Glenn A Moore in Nevada in April 1985. I can't link the data, but it is probably on other genealogy sites. I didn't find much else yet.

 

[Susikatze]

Well I found their last address together in canyon county, CA. But those phonebook sites are notoriously outdated and do not take divorces into account. If he is still alive today, he would be in his 80s. I assume he would be questioned.

 

[Susikatze]

Checked the address. The house was sold in 1995 and then again in 2000. Google images show it uninhabited and derelict looking im December 2011. Interesting it has aside from the recent photo only one more entry, which was 2011 in google. Not sure what to make of that.
I wish i could access if there are any divorce records of GM and Ada.

Jmoo

 

[Friday Fan]

Ok....so riddle me this.... if this is the same Ada Beth Kaplan why is she already recorded as having died in 2011 in familysearch.org? 2 entries, march 2011 and dec 2011....and born in 1947? FamilySearch.org

Those entries were created on January 8, 2024. They used a newspaper article as the source. This happens alot with crime victims. IOW: Everything was created after she was publicly identified.

Deaths from public records won't be uploaded to FS for years.

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Name	Ada Beth Kaplan
Sex	Female
Age	64 years
Birth Date	1947
Event Type	Death
Event Date	29 December 2011
Event Place	California, United States
Newspaper	Bakersfield Californian, The

 

[Friday Fan]

Well I found their last address together in canyon county, CA. But those phonebook sites are notoriously outdated and do not take divorces into account. If he is still alive today, he would be in his 80s. I assume he would be questioned.

I'm seeing a house that was purchased in 1985. It hasn't changed owners since. (However, it does not mean the owner still lives there. Many owners keep and rent out properties)

You can put the address in here: Los Angeles County Assessor Portal

I'm also seeing an Ada Beth Kaplan in a West Hollywood apartment in 2001.

Both sources give her BD as Nov 1946.

 

[Tired Professor]

I'm seeing a house that was purchased in 1985. It hasn't changed owners since. (However, it does not mean the owner still lives there. Many owners keep and rent out properties)

You can put the address in here: Los Angeles County Assessor Portal

I'm also seeing an Ada Beth Kaplan in a West Hollywood apartment in 2001.

Both sources give her BD as Nov 1946.

I found the Hollywood apartment. I have been trying to figure out when exactly she lived there? The dates with the house seem to overlap with what I found for the apartment. Did she move out of the house and into the apartment at one point? Assuming we are talking about the same house, I moved the Google street view to the left 1 space and got an October 2023 streetview of an elderly gentleman who appeared to be working in the garage of that house. Maybe it’s her husband? It’s been hard finding information about the husband aside from a few ranting letters to the newspaper (if that was even him being his name is rather common).

 

[cheemsg]

Ada Kaplan photo
Did anyone else come across this? Another photo of her c. 1985.

 

[Friday Fan]

I found the Hollywood apartment. I have been trying to figure out when exactly she lived there? The dates with the house seem to overlap with what I found for the apartment. Did she move out of the house and into the apartment at one point? Assuming we are talking about the same house, I moved the Google street view to the left 1 space and got an October 2023 streetview of an elderly gentleman who appeared to be working in the garage of that house. Maybe it’s her husband? It’s been hard finding information about the husband aside from a few ranting letters to the newspaper (if that was even him being his name is rather common).

I get the impression she may have moved out. MOO..Unless the apartment was rented for business purposes.

However, the property could possibly be a rental property too.
It's changed too much in appearance since 2011.
Rental properties aren't easily identified.
(Just a thought)

 

[victoriarobinson642]

Ada's husband, G M, commented in the local newspaper that his '64-y-o wife left him for a multimillionaire' while he lives on 'Social Security and a small union pension'.

Aug 17, 2011, page 4 - The Signal at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from The Signal dated Aug 17, 2011, page 4.

www.newspapers.com

 

[Susikatze]

Ada's husband, G M, commented in the local newspaper that his '64-y-o wife left him for a multimillionaire' while he lives on 'Social Security and a small union pension'.

Aug 17, 2011, page 4 - The Signal at Newspapers.com - Newspapers.com

View the digital scanned newspaper from The Signal dated Aug 17, 2011, page 4.

www.newspapers.com

Always the same old story. Always. Every single woman killed by her husband the husband got away by telling people "oh, she just ran away".

This case is especially appalling, what a narcissistic sicko. Blames the wife he killed for him living on a small pension

 

[UnlicensedPI]

Here is the clipping: Glenn Moore Aug 2011 READ THIS ONE

 

[Susikatze]

What a disgusting sicko. Killed his cancer survivor wife (breast and ovarian cancer, hence the abdominal scar) because she did not want to be his sex slave anymore, decapitated her and posed her in a sexually explicit pose nude in the fields - and then claimed he was the victim.
The puzzle is coming together.

 

[UnicornNippleFarts]

What a disgusting sicko. Killed his cancer survivor wife (breast and ovarian cancer, hence the abdominal scar) because she did not want to be his sex slave anymore, decapitated her and posed her in a sexually explicit pose nude in the fields - and then claimed he was the victim.
The puzzle is coming together.

I’ve been following this case since they released info in 2018. Her husband lives (lived?) 5 minutes down the road from me (I think he is still alive). I hadn’t read anything regarding the cancer or the “sex slave” information anywhere! Could you elaborate please!

 

[djanga]

I’ve been following this case since they released info in 2018. Her husband lives (lived?) 5 minutes down the road from me (I think he is still alive). I hadn’t read anything regarding the cancer or the “sex slave” information anywhere! Could you elaborate please!

From the first message on this thread (it was later discussed many times here):

It was one of the most horrific murder scenes ever seen by the Kern County Sheriff’s Department.

The woman had been decapitated, her body was completely nude lying on her back it appeared the body had been posed by whoever left her there. The pose was considered by LE to be in the resemblance of a sexual manner.

Blood had been drained from her body, the decapitation itself was notably neat clean cuts. There were no signs of drug use nor tattoos that could be used for identification. The unidentified woman did have surgical scars from a single mastectomy and a C-Section the victim may have possibly battled cancer.

 

[UnlicensedPI]

As a card-carrying member of the Sh-tty T-tty Committee, I want to see justice in this case especially. You appreciate your life more when you survive cancer, and maybe you live it a little harder. She didn't beat cancer just so her life could end violently and her murderer could live in freedom. I'm sure he's living the years she deserved.

I'm not buying the husband's story about the multimillionaire, but I'm not entirely ruling it out, either. She could have been tricked by a Guy Muldavin-esque conman. It seems more like the type of crime a serial killer would commit than a husband of many years.

 

[UnicornNippleFarts]

As a card-carrying member of the Sh-tty T-tty Committee, I want to see justice in this case especially. You appreciate your life more when you survive cancer, and maybe you live it a little harder. She didn't beat cancer just so her life could end violently and her murderer could live in freedom. I'm sure he's living the years she deserved.

I'm not buying the husband's story about the multimillionaire, but I'm not entirely ruling it out, either. She could have been tricked by a Guy Muldavin-esque conman. It seems more like the type of crime a serial killer would commit than a husband of many years.

I just came upon the multimillionaire information a few days ago, I must have missed it. I’ll take it with a grain of salt as there is no way to 100% verify that is in fact her husband that wrote it. Assuming it is, that makes what I was able to dig up that much more interesting. GM filed for divorce in 2008 and all of the filings were made by him with none from her or her attorney. The divorce looks like it was never finalized and the case status is listed as “other”.

 

[Susikatze]

I’ve been following this case since they released info in 2018. Her husband lives (lived?) 5 minutes down the road from me (I think he is still alive). I hadn’t read anything regarding the cancer or the “sex slave” information anywhere! Could you elaborate please!

Also in one of the articles when asked about their marriage,the husband complained she did not want to sleep with him anymore.

 

[Brightchaser47]

That is the best news ive read in a long time! "Returned to her family and community", i guess it implies a jewish burial. It makes me so happy.

Now we have to find who did that to her. Murdered in such a dehumanizing brutal manner. I hope they find her killer

It could be that Ada was estranged from her family, so they didn't report her missing. Or maybe her killer was a spouse or a partner who purposely cut her off from family. This killing seems extremely personal imo

Her family likely lost contact with her in 2011. But yeah, if the entry was made close to her actual date of death, whoever put it in should be questioned.
Did she date someone within this timeframe? Who was she associating with? The way she was killed is extremely personal. Overkill type, then removed fingertips to prevent ID and also posing her in a sexually explicit manner without her having been sexually assaulted. I think now that we know her id, it should be relqtively easy to find a suspect. Murderes only tend to remove fingertips, teeth etc. if a connection was easily made if the victim was identified, hence, it is all about preventing the ID first place.

Also in one of the articles when asked about their marriage,the husband complained she did not want to sleep with him anymore.

Hello, just popping in to offer my two cents, as they say....
I'd agree Ada's murder was very personal, and committed by someone who not only wished to get away with murder, but also wanted to shame her as much as possible in death. It makes sense that someone who wasn't right in the head, but who was very angry at being deprived of his conjugal rights would do this. The description of the beheading and draining of blood bring to mind the image of a "kosher kill", if you will, which makes me wonder whether her killer also resented her being of Jewish extraction. Just some thoughts, and just my opinion.
ETA: I'm very glad she's been identified and given back to her family.

 

[Susikatze]

Hello, just popping in to offer my two cents, as they say....
I'd agree Ada's murder was very personal, and committed by someone who not only wished to get away with murder, but also wanted to shame her as much as possible in death. It makes sense that someone who wasn't right in the head, but who was very angry at being deprived of his conjugal rights would do this. The description of the beheading and draining of blood bring to mind the image of a "kosher kill", if you will, which makes me wonder whether her killer also resented her being of Jewish extraction. Just some thoughts, and just my opinion.
ETA: I'm very glad she's been identified and given back to her family.

Beheading is not kosher slaughter, actually
It being a hate crime, maybe, but the beheading just screams "perp does not want to be caught" to me, along with the removal of hands. No dentals, no fingerprints, identification is considerably hindered. Because if she was identified,the husband would immediately be suspect. And the plan worked out well for 13 years until DNA helped