CA CA - Westlake Village, HispFem 18-30, UP11249, pregnant, in parking lot, Jul'80

[Springrain]

Bumping until she gets home.

 

[hafom8840]

Is there any source stating how old the Honduran man is?

 

[Friday Fan]

"The father was identified to be a Honduran immigrant who was associated with a community of Central American immigrants in the Koreatown district of Los Angeles."

When I looked up the Koreatown area on Google Maps, I noticed it was a hotbed of numerous consulates, including the Honduran. I don't know if he resided in Koreatown or was his legal address at the time at the Honduran consulate?

However, even back then the area was Hispanic majority

Koreatown is just west of downtown Los Angeles. Did our girl reside in that part of town?
Since she was found west of Los Angeles, there is a chance that Chouest picked her up there...
(OTOH Chouest may have driven Shirley Soosay 75 miles from where he picked her up, so there's that..)

Chouest was a wild animal..seriously
He was extremely impulsive and could not survive out of prison for even a few weeks without committing crimes. He was paroled in June 1980...

I wonder how many others there were?

I'm grasping at straws.....
Just want our girl identified....


Immigrant Communities in Central Los Angeles
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43794262?refreqid=excelsior:72cdc7260f1d15ece4fec4f198cd9f4d

 

[Melt71]

As an Embassy worker myself I very much doubt the father would have their address as the Embassy unless he worked there. There are all sorts of international conventions and agreements and noone who is a diplomat wants to endanger those international agreements (it's a BIG BIG deal). Of course he may have been an embassy worker, though not an actual diplomat. However I read the information as though he was associated with a non-work group - either residential, church or other social gathering place for Hondurans at that time, even a restaurant, market/shops, music venue..

 

[Friday Fan]

As an Embassy worker myself I very much doubt the father would have their address as the Embassy unless he worked there. There are all sorts of international conventions and agreements and noone who is a diplomat wants to endanger those international agreements (it's a BIG BIG deal). Of course he may have been an embassy worker, though not an actual diplomat. However I read the information as though he was associated with a non-work group - either residential, church or other social gathering place for Hondurans at that time, even a restaurant, market/shops, music venue..

OK..Thanks! Good to know!

 

[hafom8840]

Let me get something clear: "Chouest" is pronounced like "shoe west"?

 

[Alleykins]

Let me get something clear: "Chouest" is pronounced like "shoe west"?

I believe Chouest is a French surname. We have a large population of French-Canadian descendants in our state, and that's how I would pronounce it, only with no pause or break between shoe and west, so it would sound more like "shwest".

 

[Friday Fan]

Yes, Chouest is French.
He's from Louisiana.

Among criminals, he is an enigma.
He had to have committed more rapes etc.

There was nothing subtle about his style.
Did he start out subtle and did he escalate?
Was he an annoying oddball for awhile that didn't get on anyone's radar until 1977?

Heck, I can't figure out whether he was a disorganized or organized predator...It sounds like he was organized enough to go out of his way to find and hide victims, but was so sloppy that he was caught within 2 months of being paroled.

Organized Versus Disorganized Serial Predators

 

[hafom8840]

Yes, Chouest is French.
He's from Louisiana.

Among criminals, he is an enigma.
He had to have committed more rapes etc.

There was nothing subtle about his style.
Did he start out subtle and did he escalate?
Was he an annoying oddball for awhile that didn't get on anyone's radar until 1977?

Heck, I can't figure out whether he was a disorganized or organized predator...It sounds like he was organized enough to go out of his way to find and hide victims, but was so sloppy that he was caught within 2 months of being paroled.

Organized Versus Disorganized Serial Predators

If he was trying to get a bunch of witnesses to see her body as a method of attention seeking, he didn't do very good job at it. He chose to do it during the summer, where there's only a handful of faculty and students who happen to be on campus, as well as a few observant joggers and pedestrians who are outside the premises. Had he done so during the school year, my guess is he would've ignited a colossal panic.

 

[Friday Fan]

If he was trying to get a bunch of witnesses to see her body as a method of attention seeking, he didn't do very good job at it. He chose to do it during the summer, where there's only a handful of faculty and students who happen to be on campus, as well as a few observant joggers and pedestrians who are outside the premises. Had he done so during the school year, my guess is he would've ignited a colossal panic.

He brazenly abducted women who survived. He abducted one woman in 1977 after asking her if she wanted a ride. He went to prison and got out in June 1980. In July 1980, he murdered Shirley Soosay and VCJD. In August and Sept 1980 he attacked two women at knifepoint. In once case, there were eyewitnesses at the scene. In the other case, he started calling the woman at home afterward. He was arrested a month later. For these crimes he received a life sentence. While he was serving this sentence, his DNA matched with the two Jane Does.

He really did not have much free time before he was out of prison and back in again.

It was the women who he raped that put him behind bars way back in 1977 and 1980.


College of the Sequoias rapist will stand trial for Ventura murders

Past victims testify in felon's trial over 1980 killings in Ventura, Kern counties

People v. Chouest, 2d Crim. No. B291449 | Casetext Search + Citator

 

[hafom8840]

He brazenly abducted women who survived. He abducted one woman in 1977 after asking her if she wanted a ride. He went to prison and got out in June 1980. In July 1980, he murdered Shirley Soosay and VCJD. In August and Sept 1980 he attacked two women at knifepoint. In once case, there were eyewitnesses at the scene. In the other case, he started calling the woman at home afterward. He was arrested a month later. For these crimes he received a life sentence. While he was serving this sentence, his DNA matched with the two Jane Does.

He really did not have much free time before he was out of prison and back in again.

It was the women who he raped that put him behind bars way back in 1977 and 1980.


College of the Sequoias rapist will stand trial for Ventura murders

Past victims testify in felon's trial over 1980 killings in Ventura, Kern counties

People v. Chouest, 2d Crim. No. B291449 | Casetext Search + Citator

This wilson chuouest guy really is an awful person. I'm glad that he's in prison for good and got his comuppence but am nonehetless disappointed that one of his murdered victkims is still unidentified to this day. I realyl hope that sooner or later they find out who she is. After all the identification of her third cousin (i read that somewhere but forgot where) is a good start.

 

[CarlK90245]

FYI Everyone: DNADoeProject will be featured this coming Friday on A&E's Cold Case Files.

The story will focus on the Shirley Soosay and Ventura Jane Doe cases. The episode is titled "The Missing and Murdered".

https://www.aetv.com/schedule?month=5&day=6&year=2022

It will air 9pm Eastern, 8pm Central, 7pm Mountain time, and 6pm & 10pm Pacific time. (please double-check your local listings)
Amazon also streams new episodes usually a week after they air on cable. You can find them on this link (when it’s available, it’ll be at the bottom of the list - it should be number 26)
Cold Case Files Season 2

https://www.amazon.com/.../ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2

 

[hafom8840]

I'm unable to watch it; could someone give an overall synopsis of what happened?

Just be sure to throw the text into a "type words backwards" converter or something just so nobody has it spoiled if they really wanna see it

 

[Springrain]

I'm unable to watch it; could someone give an overall synopsis of what happened?

Just be sure to throw the text into a "type words backwards" converter or something just so nobody has it spoiled if they really wanna see it

It's not up yet!

 

[Springrain]

I'm glad Cold Case Files is featuring this case as well as Shirley's. We really need more of a spotlight on Chouest's victims. He really is a monster...impossible to know how many other victims he has out there.

Personally, I'm going to be having him in mind as a possible suspect for murders of young women in California around the late 70s to early 80s, especially ones that seem to fit his disgusting MO, and especially Latina/Native American women as he seemed to go for them more. JMO based off what we know.

 

[Friday Fan]

I'm glad Cold Case Files is featuring this case as well as Shirley's. We really need more of a spotlight on Chouest's victims. He really is a monster...impossible to know how many other victims he has out there.

Personally, I'm going to be having him in mind as a possible suspect for murders of young women in California around the late 70s to early 80s, especially ones that seem to fit his disgusting MO, and especially Latina/Native American women as he seemed to go for them more. JMO based off what we know.

I'm glad Cold Case Files will air VCJD. We need a spotlight on VCJD.

• 1972: Chouest moves to Los Angeles
• Nov 1975: Marriage
• Oct 1977: Rape. Arrested the next day
• Oct 1997-May 1980: Incarcerated
• May 1980- Oct (?) 1980: Free
• Oct or Nov (?) 1980-Current: Incarcerated

 

[hafom8840]

Does anyone know if Chouest ever drove trucks? I’m talking big rigs, not just pickup trucks

 

[CarlK90245]

Does anyone know if Chouest ever drove trucks? I’m talking big rigs, not just pickup trucks

No, he wasn't a big-rig truck driver.

 

[Springrain]

What was his profession?

 

[Friday Fan]

Although the 1977 victim did not remember this on Wednesday, she told police in the initial report that Chouest shared with her that he raped other girls and he liked it.
Past victims testify in felon's trial over 1980 killings in Ventura, Kern counties​

If Wilson Chouest Jr. had indeed killed both Jane Does, his violence had escalated steadily since his fraught childhood, which, Rhods learned as he continued to work the Westlake case, had been rife with parental discord. Born in New Orleans, Chouest was an altar boy with priestly ambitions until he was expelled from Catholic school, accused of beating up another altar boy, an epileptic. Already a drug user, he ramped up his heroin habit upon enlisting in the army a few days after he turned 18. A year later, he was discharged owing to “unsuitability.”

By 1972, Chouest had moved to Los Angeles, where he married and had a daughter, Brigette. On an October 1977 afternoon, on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, he offered a ride to a 20-year-old woman. At 25, he was five foot six, with long, dark wavy hair and a horseshoe mustache connected to a beard grown, possibly, to disguise his receding chin. Thinking he looked safe, the woman got into the car, then noticed there were no door handles on the passenger side.

Chouest drove her to a bushy area in the Santa Monica Mountains, kicked her in the head, strangled her to unconsciousness, raped her, and left her in the dirt. He was arrested the next day. In exchange for his pleading guilty to kidnapping and assault, the authorities dropped the rape charge, and he was sentenced to four years in prison. A probation report described him as “extremely dangerous” and as demonstrating “no remorse.” Nonetheless, he was paroled in June 1980, a month before the Ventura and Kern County bodies were discovered.She Has a Name​

I wonder why they were able to catch Chouest so quickly in 1977, was it his license plate or was there another complaint(s)?

I did a very quick google search: A woman was murdered in Oct 1977, but they believe her husband did it. Skeletal remains identified through DNA as missing California woman shot to death in 1977

Based on what the 1977 rape victim told police at the time: At the very least, there are other rape victims out there 1972-1977

The hard part is going back in time.

He was married in November 1975
His daughter was born 5 months later
Maybe things escalated in the second half of 1976? (Having a child is stressful, much less having one when you're a heroin addict)