Homicides
Natalia Brito, a 20-month-old toddler, died in June 2007 after being beaten by her father.
Kelsey Morasci killed 21-year-old Everett Allen Quaid on Aug. 6, 2009 in an apartment in the 9300 block of Musselman Drive in Atascadero.
Dorothy Vivian Autrey's grandson killed her in her Cayucos home in 2008, then stuffed her into a suitcase and dumped it over a guardrail north of Ragged Point. The body has never been found.
Margaret "Peggy" Cockrell was beaten to death by her husband on Easter in 2008.
In the early morning of Oct. 3, in a quiet, upscale San Luis Obispo neighborhood, John "Mike" Rivard, 48, shot and killed his wife Barbara, 44, and their daughter Olivia, 7.
Joshua Houlgate bled as he stumbled down the stairs of a San Luis Obispo mobile home, pausing briefly and covering his battered head with his hand before collapsing.
The harrowing March 2006 shooting rampage at Denny's in Pismo Beach -- which left two South County residents and the gunman dead and two others injured -- ended in a matter of minutes.
The families of those killed, Harold Hatley and Frank Valesquez, both of Grover Beach, and residents of the small coastal towns continue to grapple with what is now remembered as one of the bloodiest public shooting sprees in San Luis Obispo County history.
Gerald 'Jerry' O'Malley, 87, was killed when a 13-year-old boy broke into his home and beat him with a skateboard.
Sharon Ostman was found beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted early July 11, 2005, in San Luis Obispo Creek near Mission Plaza.
Stephen Wells and his nephew, Jerry Rios, were killed at a Morro Bay campsite in a dispute over a parking space.
Kristen Word, 19, and her 5 1/2-month-old fetus were shot to death by her boyfriend while visiting a family friend in Paso Robles.
Kristina Hogan's ex-boyfriend murdered her before taking his own life after she tried to break up with him.
Hogan, a 20-year-old Cal Poly student, was found dead from a deep cut to her throat near an oceanside trail at Montaņa de Oro on Jan. 9, 2001.
Michael Sotelo was a National Guardsman and lifelong Paso Robles resident.
Anthony Fiorella reportedly went after Garrett Hunter and his older brother Grant because the two tricked him into delivering a half-ounce of marijuana they had no intention of paying for, police reports state.
On the evening of July 22, 1995, 15-year-old Elyse Pahler left her home to hang out with three teenage boys, who had promised her drugs. Later that evening, the three, aged 14, 15 and 16, held her down, stabbed her and later had sex with her dead body.
Cindy Pinto was found dead in the Salinas Riverbed in Paso Robles on September 8, 1994. Pinto, 31, was bludgeoned to death by Terry Crothers, 23, of Paso Robles.
On Oct. 19, 1985, Cal Poly student Mary Catherine Waterbury was watching the sunset at Montana de Oro. Someone then raped her before stuffing her face in the sand until she suffocated.
