CONTEMPORARY NEWSPAPER REPORTING
Murdered Teen-Ager Buried; Isolated Beach Searched
Santa Barbara News-Press · June 8, 1963
Domingos and Edwards
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A murdered teen-ager was buried today while investigators, striking a cold trail, backtracked to again scour the isolated beach where the boy and his sweetheart were gunned down Tuesday by a brutal killer.
Sheriff James W. Webster said there were no new developments in the case, and no suspects in custody. He sent county jail prisoners, supervised by deputies, to systematically scan for clues in a wide area around the shack where the bodies were found, on the coast 25 miles west of Santa Barbara.
The unknown slayer pumped 11 .22 caliber slugs into Robert Domingos, 18, and eight into Linda Edwards, who would have been 18 yesterday, as they relaxed at the beach the day before graduation. Then he dumped their bodies in the shack.
A large crowd attended funeral services for Domingos at 8 a.m. today. Rev. Andrew McGrath said Mass at La Purisima Catholic Church in Lompoc, and the boy was buried in Evergreen Cemetery. Linda will be buried Monday.
One suspect has been released, and another is still being sought. A youth of 17, questioned closely after he was arrested in downtown Lompoc Thursday night, has been allowed to go home. He knew the dead youngsters well and told deputies he had been jealous of the dead boy.
A state-wide alarm for another youth, wanted in the fatal stabbing of a Lompoc man early Monday, brought a tip during the night from a San Francisco newspaper.
A woman in San Jose told the paper the description fitted a youth in San Jose. The sheriff’s office here has queried the San Jose Police Department.
With all leads going cold, deputies checked out every flimsy report. An unnamed informant told of seeing a man with what looked like a .22 rifle at midnight last night on the Signal Oil lease, between Ellwood and Dos Pueblos Ranch. Deputies walked the moonlit area, but found nothing.