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'70s Serial Killer William Zamastil Continues To Rack Up Murder Charges
Friday, December 4, 2009 at 10:00 am
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| William Zamastil spent the 70s killing and raping people. Now, he's finally paying the price. |
That night, as he camped outside, someone smashed his head in with a rock. When the cops found him, he was dead and his yellow 1977 Chevy Monza was gone...
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| Zamastil was indicted for the 1973 grizzly murder of 22-year-old Leesa Shaner in September. |
Since September 5, 1977 -- the night Allison was murdered -- homicide detectives have been tracking a man they think might be responsible not only for Allison's grizzly murder, but several others.
Just a year after Allison's murder, the bodies of two teenagers were found by a sheep herder outside of Barstow, a sleepy desert town just 100 miles east of Bakersfield. Detectives suspected that 17-year-old Malcolm Bradshaw and 18-year-old Jacqueline Bradshaw, had both been beaten to death with a socket wrench. But it wasn't until 2003 that police finally nabbed their killer: William Llyod Zamastil.
When Zamastil -- now 57-years-old -- was tracked down for the Bradshaw killings, he had already served two decades of a life sentence for the 1978 rape and murder of a Wisconsin woman. In 2004, he pled guilty to the Barstow murders and is now serving several life sentences concurrently.
But that's not the final chapter in Zamastil's '70s killing spree. It turns out he's still a suspect in several other homicides, including the 1973 rape and murder of an FBI agent's daughter.
In that case, 22-year-old Leesa Jo Shaner's naked body was found by two soldiers on Fort Huachuca, an Army post in Arizona. Shaner had been on her way to pick up her husband from the airport -- excited to bring him home to their two daughters and a welcome party with family and friends. But before she'd made it very far, she was kidnapped, raped and murdered -- her body dumped in the desert.
Last year, investigators had Zamastil's DNA tested against hairs found on Shaner's body. In September, he was indicted.
And the list goes on. Just a week after he was indicted in the Shaner case, Zamastil was also named a person of interest in the 1968 murder of Christine Rothschild, a student at the University of Wisconsin.
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| Cristina Rothschild was strangled, stabbled, raped, and murdered in 1968. Zamastil may have been her killer, too. |
Rothschild had been raped, strangled with the lining of her coat, and stabbed 14 times. Her jaw was broken. And her gloves were shoved down her throat. Still, no charges have been filed in the case. If Zamastil is, in fact, her killer, he would have only been 16-years-old at the time of the murder.
Finally, last week, police announced that Zamastil was also the prime suspect in Allison's case and had been for years. The only problem is that detectives don't currently have enough evidence to charge him. That is why they are asking anyone with information to call San Bernardino Detective Frank Montanez at 909-387-3589. People that would like to remain anonymous can call WeTip at 1-800-78-CRIME.
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