Sep 26, 2023
A man is being extradited to Solano County from Oregon after being arrested on suspicion of killing a 6-year-old in Vallejo. Jeremy Stoner went missing from his home Feb. 21, 1987, just shy of his 7th birthday. His body was found four days later on Sherman Island in Sacramento County.
Sep 30, 2023
The suspect in 6-year-old Jeremy Stoner's death from 1987 is now a person of interest to Martinez police for their 1987 cold case of 9-year-old Eric Coy.
September 26, 2023
Fred Cain III, the suspect arrested last week for the 1987 murder and abduction of a 6-year-old boy in Vallejo, is now a person of interest in the murder of 9-year-old Eric Coy in Martinez. The killings happened just weeks apart.
abc7news.com
'SOLANO COUNTY, Calif. — A man is being extradited to
Solano County from Oregon after being arrested on suspicion of killing a 6-year-old in Vallejo.
Jeremy Stoner went missing from his home Feb. 21, 1987, just shy of his 7th birthday. His body was found four days later on Sherman Island in Sacramento County.
Now, 36 years later,
Fred Cain III is being charged with murder and special circumstances including kidnapping, sodomy and lewd acts on a child, according to Solano County District Attorney Krishna Abrams. He is 69-years-old and lives in Central Point, Oregon.''
''The killing in Martinez happened less than a month before the Stoner killing in 1987. The victim was 9-year-old Eric Coy.
The boy was killed after leaving to go to his cousin and best friends house in Martinez, California.
"The boy was brutally murdered after leaving his house, stabbed with a blunt object," said one ABC7 News report in 1987.''