20 women connected to death-row inmate are missing CA.

20 women connected to death-row inmate are missing CA.
50 Missing Women Connected to Inmate 50 women connected to death-row inmate are missing, LA County sheriff says By JEREMIAH MARQUEZ Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES Investigators said Tuesday they are trying to find at least 50 women they have linked to a photographer who is on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s. Authorities are looking into whether the women were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984 by William Richard Bradford, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Web site. In the 1970s and '80s, Bradford posed as a freelance photographer in the West Los Angeles area, taking sexually explicit photos of women he met at bars and auto races, according to the site. The site showed women striking poses in 54 photographs seized from his home in the 1980s. Investigators renewed their interest in the photos while reviewing old cases recently, but they have had trouble contacting the women, said sheriff's Lt. Debra Lenhart. She said the case has generated leads in Michigan and Florida. Bradford, now 60, once lived or traveled there. Bradford was convicted in 1987 of murder in the stranglings of Shari Miller, 21, and Tracey Campbell, 15. Prosecutors said he lured them by promising to help with their modeling careers. The victims' bodies were found during the summer of 1984, one of them in a Los Angeles parking lot, the other in the desert north of the city. In the penalty phase of his trial, Bradford asked the jury to sentence him to death. "Think of how many you don't even know about," he told the jurors. It was unclear whether Bradford has an attorney. A message left with an attorney who represented him in the past, Robert R. Bryan, was not immediately returned. The unaccounted-for women were believed to have lived in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver City, Inglewood and other beach cities. Shortly after his arrest in the two killings in 1984, he pleaded no contest to an unrelated charge of rape and was sentenced to eight years in prison. ___ On the Net: Photographs of missing women: http://lacountymurders.com/wanted/LADIES1.html http://www.wnyt.com/x73.xml?URL=http://localhost/APWIREFEED/d8j385000.xml&ag=x156&sb=x183

CRIME: SEXUAL ASSAULT - HOMICIDE VICTIMS: VARIOUS FEMALES LOCATION: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA AND MICHIGAN SUSPECT: BRADFORD, WILLIAM RICHARD M/WHITE, DOB:05-18-1946, CII: A02521581 SUSPECT IS CURRENTLY CONFINED CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, SAN QUENTIN, DEATH ROW. SUSPECT WAS CONVICTED OF DOUBLE MURDER IN 1984. M.0. BETWEEN 1977 AND 1984 SUSPECT POSED AS FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER IN WEST LOS ANGELES AREA. SUSPECT USUALLY MET FEMALES AT CAR RACE EVENTS AND BARS. SUSPECT WOULD EVENTUALLY PHOTOGRAPH FEMALES IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT POSITIONS, STRANGLE THEM AND DISPOSE THEIR BODIES IN THE NORTHERN LOS ANGELES DESERTS. DURING A SUBSEQUENT SEARCH WARRANT SERVED AT THE SUSPECT'S RESIDENCE, PHOTOGRAPHS OF MISCELLANEOUS FEMALES WERE RECOVERED AMONGST OTHER INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE. Los Angeles County Homicide Investigators are seeking the public's assistance in locating and identifying the depicted females. The individuals portrayed in the photographs may have been victims of foul play between 1977 and 1984. Anyone with information on these females is urged to contact Homicide Investigators. FILE #: 006-00038-3100-444 INFO FOR ALL HOMICIDE UNITS / MISSING PERSONS UNITS REFER TO: LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S HOMICIDE BUREAU SERGEANTS ROBERT TAYLOR AND ALFREDO CASTRO 323 890-5500 EMAIL ADDRESS : LACountyMurders@lasd.org http://lacountymurders.com/wanted/LADIES1.html

L.A. Police Link 57 Missing Women To Killer POSTED: 7:36 am EDT July 26, 2006 UPDATED: 7:39 am EDT July 26, 2006 Slideshow of Women: http://www.nbc10.com/slideshow/news/9576480/detail.html?qs=1;s=1;dm=ss;p=news;w=400 The case of a convicted killer who may have murdered more than 50 missing women in the 1970s and 1980s is garnering national attention. Investigators in Los Angeles said Tuesday they are trying to find 57 women linked to a photographer who is on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s. Authorities are looking into whether the women were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984 by William Richard Bradford, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Web site. In the 1970s and '80s, Bradford posed as a freelance photographer in the West Los Angeles area, taking photos of women he met at bars and auto races, according to the site. The site showed women striking poses in 54 photographs seized from his home in the 1980s. Investigators renewed their interest in the photos while reviewing old cases recently, but they have had trouble contacting the women, said sheriff's Lt. Debra Lenhart. She said the case has generated leads in Michigan and Florida. Bradford, now 60, once lived or traveled there. Bradford was convicted in 1987 of murder in the stranglings of Shari Miller, 21, and Tracey Campbell, 15. Prosecutors said he lured them by promising to help with their modeling careers. The victims' bodies were found during the summer of 1984, one of them in a Los Angeles parking lot, the other in the desert north of the city. In the penalty phase of his trial, Bradford asked the jury to sentence him to death. "Think of how many you don't even know about," he told the jurors. It was unclear whether Bradford has an attorney. A message left with an attorney who represented him in the past, Robert R. Bryan, was not immediately returned. The unaccounted-for women were believed to have lived in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver City, Inglewood and other beach cities. Shortly after his arrest in the two killings in 1984, he pleaded no contest to an unrelated charge of rape and was sentenced to eight years in prison. If you have any information about these missing women, contact LOS ANGELES COUNTY SHERIFF'S HOMICIDE BUREAU, SERGEANTS ROBERT TAYLOR AND ALFREDO CASTRO. 323 890-5500, or e-mail LACountyMurders@lasd.org http://www.nbc10.com/news/9576545/detail.html

'Aspiring models' potential murder victims July 26, 2006 - 11:50AM Us investigators are trying to find about 50 women who were photographed decades ago by a man sentenced to death for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s, authorities said. Detectives are investigating whether the women were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984 by William Richard Bradford, said Los Angeles County sheriff's officials today. Photographs of the women have been posted on a department's website in hopes that the public can account for them. One, No 28 on the display, was identified as Donnalee Campbell Duhamel, 31, whose decapitated body was found in a Malibu canyon in 1978 a few days after meeting Bradford at a bar, said sheriff's Captain Ray Peavy."Some of these women we ... identified; several of them were his wives, ex-wives. But for the most part the majority of these folks we do not know who they are, who they were," Peavy said. "Many of them could have likely been homicide victims themselves. Many of them may have just been women that he met in bars and took home and took photographs of." Other local law enforcement agencies are also looking into possible connections to other homicide cases from 1975 and 1982. The Santa Monica Police Department was investigating whether Bradford was involved in the slaying of Patricia Dulong, 33, last seen in Santa Monica. And the Los Angeles Police Department may have linked him to the death of 23-year-old Mischa Stewart, Peavy said. In the 1970s and '80s, Bradford, 60, posed as a freelance photographer in the West Los Angeles area, taking photos of women he met at bars and "car race events," according to information on the website, which showed women striking poses in the photographs. The photographs and film were seized when search warrants were served on Bradford's home at the time of his arrest in 1984, Peavy said. "Those items went into a case file. That case file, quite frankly nothing was really done with those photographs up until right now," Peavy said. The case could lead outside California. Through the years, Bradford has spent time in Illinois, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Oregon and elsewhere. "We could have victims theoretically all over the country," Peavy said. Bradford was convicted in 1987 of first-degree murder in the strangling deaths of Shari Miller, 21, whom he met in a bar, and Tracey Campbell, 15, a neighbour. Prosecutors said he lured them with promises to help their modelling careers. In the penalty phase of his trial, Bradford asked the jury to sentence him to death. "Think of how many you don't even know about," he told jurors. The unaccounted-for women were believed to have lived in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Culver City, Inglewood and local beach cities. When he wasn't taking pictures, Bradford was a handyman in a Mar Vista apartment complex, said sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore. Shortly after his arrest in the two killing in 1984, he pleaded no contest to an unrelated charge of forcible rape and was sentenced to eight years in state prison. He was previously arrested for burglary and sex crimes against one of his ex-wives, Peavy said. Peavy said it is possible the remaining unidentified women were alive and well, though he was not hopeful. "My gut instinct is that there are probably a substantial number of victims," he said. http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/aspiring-models-potential-murder-victims/2006/07/26/1153816225305.html Shame > WHY has these pictures of possiable missing adults not had any NOTICE ARE ATTENTION UNTIL NOW :evil:

50 WOMEN
Killer's Photos Spark Flood Of Tips LA Cops Say At Least 24 Of 50 Women Photographed Are Alive; One Identified As Murder Victim LOS ANGELES, July 27, 2006 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Los Angeles County Sheriff's Captain, Ray Peavey talks about how investigators are trying to find at least 50 women they have linked to a photographer on death row for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s, during a news conference, Tuesday, July 25, 2006, in Commerce, Cailf. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson) Quote "The existence of these photos has been known for 20 years. All of a sudden, for whatever reason, law enforcement has decided to look into them."-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Darlene Ricker, Bradford's attorney (CBS/AP) A flood of telephone calls and e-mails have provided sheriff's investigators with numerous tips on the identities of 50 women photographed decades ago by a double murderer who implied to a jury he'd killed others. Investigators told The Los Angeles Times that the first round of leads helped tentatively confirm that 24 of the women are still alive. Police also identified one woman as a murder victim. Now the challenge is finding out what happened to the rest. Detectives are trying to find out more about the women after releasing the photos this week. They are concerned that some of them could have been victims of rape or murder between 1975 and 1984. "I can't say it's for sure, but we're working toward making some identifications," Sheriff Sgt. Robert Taylor said. The photographs, some of them pornographic, were found in the mid-80s among the William Richard Bradford's possessions, CBS News correspondent Vince Gonzales reported. Bradford is now on death row for killing two aspiring models in the early 1980s. Authorities say Bradford, now 60, posed as a freelance photographer and shot photos of women he met at bars and elsewhere. During is trial, officials say Bradford may have made a taunting statement to jurors deciding whether he should be sentenced to death. "Think of how many you don't even know about," Bradford said. About 50 of his photos of women, many scantily clad and striking poses like amateur models, languished in an evidence room from 1984, when they were seized from Bradford's home, until detectives rediscovered them last month. Bradford's own daughter called in to police, The Los Angeles Times reported, saying that photo 48 was his ex-wife and that she is alive. The Los Angeles County sheriff's Web site had 25,000 hits alone since Tuesday. An e-mail from an unidentified sender listed 12 names. "It's old news," said Bradford's appellate attorney, Darlene Ricker. "The existence of these photos has been known for 20 years. All of a sudden, for whatever reason, law enforcement has decided to look into them." "He maintains his innocence," Ricker told The Los Angeles Times. "He has always told me he never killed anyone." As The Los Angeles Times reports, authorities have long suspected Bradford killed some of the women in the photographs, but the case was pushed aside after he was sentenced to death in 1984. One woman in the photos has been identified as Donnalee Campbell Duhamel, a 31-year-old mother of two whose decapitated body was found in a Malibu canyon in 1978. A sheriff's official said Tuesday that the body was found a few days after the woman met Bradford at a bar. Bradford was never charged in that case. On Wednesday, her daughter questioned why it took so long but was relieved that authorities were investigating. "My mom just disappeared, and now she's getting the attention I feel she deserves," said Lisa Mora, 36, who was only 7 when her mother vanished. The family got confirmation of the death eight years later, she said. Bradford was convicted in 1987 of first-degree murder in the stranglings of Shari Miller, 21, who he met in a bar, and Tracey Campbell, 15, a neighbor. Prosecutors said he lured them into accompanying him with promises of helping their modeling careers. Ricker said she hadn't spoken with Bradford, imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison, since sheriff's officials went public with his photos, but she guessed what his response might be. "I'm sure Bill would say, if he could: 'The man was a photographer. Gee, what a surprise they find photographs in his belongings.'" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/27/national/main1839842.shtml

Colorado man says he commited 48 murders By JON SARCHE, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 21 minutes ago COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence in Colorado for murdering a teenage girl has claimed responsibility for as many as 48 slayings across the country dating back more than three decades, authorities said Thursday. Robert Charles Browne, 53, told authorities the slayings occurred from 1970 until his arrest in 1995. He was in court Thursday to plead guilty to one of those killings — the death of another girl in Colorado in 1987. Authorities so far have been able to corroborate his detailed claims in six slayings — three in Louisiana, two in Texas and one in Arkansas, El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa said. He said Browne's claim of 48 murders could be credible. "It's possible he's exaggerating, but I don't think you can conduct business assuming he's exaggerating," Maketa said. "We'll continue to pursue leads." If Browne's claims prove true, he would be one of the most prolific killers in U.S. history. Gary Ridgway, Seattle's Green River Killer who in 2003 became the nation's deadliest convicted serial killer, admitted to 48 murders but once said he killed as many as 71 women, according to interview transcripts. Browne's public defender, Bill Schoewe, did not return a call. Browne claims his killing spree began with a soldier in South Korea in 1970, which Maketa said has not been verified. The other claims include 17 murders in Louisiana, nine in Colorado, seven in Texas, five in Arkansas, three in Mississippi, two each in California, New Mexico and Oklahoma, and one in Washington state — 49 in all, the sheriff said. Browne pleaded guilty in 1995 to kidnapping and murder in the 1991 death of Heather Dawn Church, 13, of Black Forest, a town north of Colorado Springs. He was sentenced to life without parole. On Thursday, he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of Rocio Sperry, a girl who was about 15 at the time of her death 19 years ago. The confession came after several years of correspondence and discussion between the killer and cold-case volunteer investigators, authorities said. Browne himself sent the first letter in "cryptic and poetic prose" in March 2000 to El Paso County prosecutors, officials said. "Seven sacred virgins, entombed side by side, those less worthy, are scattered wide," the letter says. "The score is you 1, the other team 48. If you were to drive to the end zone in a white Trans Am, the score could be 9 to 48. That would complete your home court sphere." Authorities responded with letters, but Browne clammed up for a while, then opened a new dialogue with investigators. Investigator Charlie Hess said he believes the killer himself doesn't even know why is confessing. "Does he have a conscience? Is that what motivated him? I really have no idea and I'm not sure he knows," said Hess, a retired police officer who also worked with the CIA and FBI. A 44-page affidavit paints a picture of a killer who met his victims in everyday, even mundane, situations — a motel bar, an apartment complex, even a convenience store where he worked. In one case, Browne used ether to knock out a drunken woman he was seducing and then "used an ice pick on her," the document says. In another case, he relied on ant killer to subdue a victim he stabbed with a screwdriver. Browne grew up the youngest of nine children in the northern Louisiana town of Coushatta, officials said. He dropped out of high school and served in the Army from 1969 to 1976, when he was dishonorably discharged for drug use, Maketa said. He was married six times, and authorities said all his ex-wives are still alive. Red River Parish Sheriff Johnny Norman, a schoolteacher in the 1960s, said Browne was in his physical education class in eighth and ninth grades. He recalled Browne as smart but aloof — and with a short fuse. "He was a loner, but not somebody you'd expect to do this. But he did have a hot temper," Norman said. "In a pickup basketball game, somebody fouled him or hit him, he'd fly off the handle." The Browne family ran a dairy in the 1960s and had hard times, Norman said. Browne's father, Ronald, was a deputy sheriff at the time the department was investigating the death of Wanda Hudson, a woman in her 20s, the sheriff said. Browne has confessed to that slaying, authorities told The Gazette newspaper of Colorado Springs, which first reported Browne's claims. Norman said he has spoken with Colorado investigators and the Louisiana State Police about Hudson's death and Browne's possible involvement. "We never close a case," he said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060728/ap_on_re_us/colorado_killer

William Richard Bradford
Investigators: 31 of 50 women photographed by murderer believed to be alive LOS ANGELES (AP) — Investigators who released decades-old pictures of about 50 women photographed by a murderer said Thursday that they believe more than half the women are alive, but that three appear to be homicide victims. Several of those photographed by death row inmate William Richard Bradford have yet to be identified, but Los Angeles County sheriff's investigators said they have tentatively identified 31 women since publicizing the long-forgotten images Tuesday. Twenty-eight of those women were believed to be alive, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. Three are believed to have been killed, including a 31-year-old mother of two whose decapitated body was found in a canyon in 1978. The photos of the women, many scantily clad and striking poses like amateur models, languished in an evidence room from 1984, when they were seized from Bradford's home, until detectives rediscovered them last month. Investigators were able to identify some of the women before releasing the photos, including several of Bradford's ex-wives and the 1978 slaying victim. Bradford, now 60, was condemned for killing two aspiring models in the early 1980s. Authorities say he posed as a freelance photographer and took pictures of women he met at bars and elsewhere, and are concerned that some of the women may have been victims of rape or murder between 1975 and 1984. http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0728/killers_photos_ap.html

Serial killer's photo spurs new look at missing person case
Serial killer's photo spurs new look at missing person case By LYDA LONGA Staff Writer If she's still alive, Darlene Webb turned 44 on Friday. Webb The Ormond Beach woman vanished 23 years ago as she walked to her vehicle after visiting a Daytona Beach bar. Her disappearance remains a mystery. But earlier this week, Daytona Beach detectives said they would again look into Webb's case, thanks to 54 photographs that recently surfaced in the file of a serial killer who sits on death row in a California prison. Recently, investigators for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department reopened the file of murderer Bill Bradford and discovered 54 pictures the suspect had taken of women all over the country. The pictures are more than two decades old. No. 33 One of the women photographed -- No. 33 -- bears a "strong resemblance" to Darlene Webb. Fran Webb, the missing woman's mother who lives in Ormond Beach, stared at a Seabreeze High School graduation picture of her daughter Thursday and compared it to one of the photographs that Bradford snapped years ago of a young woman with similar features. "There's a strong resemblance, but I don't know for sure," Fran Webb said as she sat on the front steps of her home. She sent the pictures to her son-in-law David Hausenfleck in Georgia and he, too, thought the women look similar. Picture No. 33 has also sparked the interest of Daytona Beach Sgt. Paul Barnett, who said investigators "would look into it." The photographs were also sent to forensic artist J. Michael Deal, deputy chief of the Altamonte Springs Police Department. Deal has been a forensic artist for more than 20 years. "There's certainly a remarkable likeness between the two pictures," Deal said Friday. "Just looking at it with my eyeball, I would say they really look alike." A forensic artist would have to compare detailed measurements of the facial features on each photo to be sure, Deal said. Darlene Webb disappeared on Jan. 22, 1983. She was last seen walking to her car from a beachside bar about midnight. Her brother and his friends searched for Webb on the beachside, but police would be the ones to find her car with her purse on the front seat. Investigators in Los Angeles County have said that Bradford, now 60, visited Florida in 1980, but they're not certain whether he was here when Webb disappeared in January 1983. He was back in California, however, by February 1983, according to police records. He was convicted a year later of killing two aspiring models, girls he had photographed, police said. Fran Webb said her daughter, an assistant manager of a fast food restaurant and a student at Daytona Beach Community College when she disappeared, never spoke of wanting to become a model or actress. Her passion was singing. She didn't even like to be photographed that much, her mother said. "It really depended on who was taking the picture and what they were doing." Friday, as she has done in years past, Fran Webb bought a small cake and sang "Happy Birthday" to her youngest daughter. "We do this every year," she said. "As far as I'm concerned, she's still alive and she's out there somewhere." lyda.longa@news-jrnl.com Comparing photographs Forensic artist J. Michael Deal, deputy chief of the Altamonte Springs Police Department, said investigators should take the photographs of Darlene Webb and the woman on the Web site issued by Los Angeles authorities and reproduce them both to the same size. Deal said certain measurements should be taken on different points on the women's faces. For example, measurements should be taken of the eyes and their relation to the nose, such as their distance to the nose. Also, police should measure the bottom of both women's lips and compare the distance between the points of their eyes to the tips of their noses. "If an overlay could be done with the two photographs, that would be an accurate way to do it," Deal said. http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD03072906.htm

Local Homicide Captain Gets the Picture
Local Homicide Captain Gets the Picture by: Steve Propes Even though his latest investigative technique is drawing international attention, longtime East Long Beach resident and Los Angeles County Sheriff’s (LASO) Homicide Captain Ray Peavy does not expect the posting of many photos of possible female murder victims to become the norm. In fact, he’s not heard of a precedent for this sort of media approach, and thinks it will likely never be needed again. “You may never see another case like this with so many potential victims. We’re doing housework that should’ve been done years ago,” said Peavy, who joined the department in 1968. Having worked undercover in the South Bay in the 1970s, Peavy was well aware of the danger that promiscuous behavior posed to women during that period. “In the mid-70s, William Bradford was hitting all the bars. He was meeting many women, airline stewardesses, models and others. At that time, there was no fear of getting a disease that could kill you, so the bars in South Bay were hot in those days.” A Mar Vista resident in 1984, Bradford, now 60, was arrested and later convicted of killing one woman and one female teenager whom he had met under the guise of photographing them. He is now on death row at San Quentin. According to Peavy, that makes this “a unique case. With the suspect in jail, there’s no longer a threat to a community. Typically, you’d have the fear the guy’s out there, that he’s going to strike again.” Even though he reportedly insisted on his innocence, during the penalty phase of his trial, Bradford asked the jury to sentence him to death, telling the jurors, “Think of how many (victims) you don’t even know about.” This time, the goal isn’t as much to convict him of more murders than it is to provide answers to families of other potential murder victims, those pictured in about 500 photos found in Bradford’s home. “I’ve hired back 14 retired homicide detectives to look at old cases. About a month ago, one of my detectives got a hold of me,” said Peavy. “He had pulled the Bradford file to see how close it was to another case he was working and found this box with all these photos taken from Bradford’s home in ’84 right after he was arrested. I said ‘We need to find out who they are.’” Peavy stated because Bradford was on death row, previous investigators probably felt it wouldn’t serve much purpose to find out who the women are. However, Peavy said, “there are families out there who need to know if their loved ones have been victimized by this guy. We’re not going to do anything except help these families.” Because the pictures are on the website (www.lacountymurders.com /wanted/LADIES1.html) “we have received international publicity and we’ve received over 1,500 clues so far. We have information on 31 women, either from themselves or from others, saying ‘she is so and so.’ They are tentatively identified, but we’re not going to take people’s word for it. We may require some more proof. We got a call from Germany about a German girl who was 15 years old at the time. Bradford was taking her picture, and told her, ‘If your mother leaves, we can have more fun.’ It was probably very good for her that her mother didn’t leave. “Three photos were of ex-wives and a roommate of Bradford’s. Some of the women we don’t identify, probably say, ‘that is me, but I’m going to keep my mouth shut.’ Two of the women were murdered. Family members called to say their mother was murdered in 1980. She was probably in her late 20s. There’s a possibility it may be a fact. If that’s the case, then we have another victim. Another girl is from the Midwest. Members of her family contacted us, said she looks like my sister and daughter. She was 14 when she ran away from home in 1975, telling people she was coming to California.” This unusual case of tracing possible victims came from “when we sit around and brainstorm. I’m a very strong believer the media is a tool,” said Peavy. “I teach media relations for homicide detectives in a joint school the LAPD and LASO put on. I’ve trained 700 or 800 homicide cops in media relations, using or getting along better with the media, not to overlook it because they’ve had a bad experience with the media. I tell them ‘you’ll solve more cases than you would by yourself.’ We probably do more press out of here than anybody else, and we get great results.” http://www.longbeachcomber.com/index.php?CatID=5&Story=1719

William Richard Bradford
The case of death row inmate William Richard Bradford, who was convicted in two murders, is horrifying. Authorities say they wonder whether he was involved in other slayings. I talked today to two women who wonder whether their mother was a victim of his, as well as the women's attorney, Gloria Allred. See veido at: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=1895181n

August 19, 2006 L.A. checks if killer linked to missing woman By LYDA LONGA Staff Writer DAYTONA BEACH -- The possibility that the disappearance of Darlene Webb here more than 20 years ago is linked to a convicted serial killer in California gained momentum Friday when investigators there confirmed a detective is being assigned to the case. Sgt. Alfredo Castro of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said a photo of Webb, an Ormond Beach woman who disappeared after leaving a Daytona Beach bar more than 20 years ago, bears "a very strong resemblance" to a woman pictured in one of the photographs seized from the killer, Bill Bradford. The 60-year-old Bradford, a photographer, is on death row in a California prison for murdering two aspiring models in 1984. Detectives have documented that Bradford had been in Florida at least twice -- in Valparaiso in September 1980 and possibly another town nearby later that year. Earlier this year, Los Angeles sheriff's detectives re-opened Bradford's file and found 54 pictures of women he had photographed more than two decades ago. The pictures, which are numbered, were released on the Internet in late July, and since then, 24 of the women have come forward to inform police they're alive. But, 30 women are still unaccounted for, including No. 33, the woman who some think looks like Webb. "There's a very strong resemblance," Castro said Friday afternoon after receiving an e-mailed picture of Webb. "I want Daytona Beach police to send me everything they have on the girl that's missing there so that we can look into this. I'm going to assign it to a detective here." Webb disappeared in January 1983 after she left a bar on North Grandview Avenue around midnight. Daytona Beach police found her car and her purse on the front seat, but no trace of Webb, who worked at a fast food restaurant. Daytona Beach Lt. Gorgi Colon said Los Angeles' interest in the Webb case is encouraging. He said an investigator would be sending Castro a packet with information on Webb's case, as well as other pictures of the missing woman. "We can't guarantee what will happen, but naturally, if this case were solved, it would be great," Colon said. Webb's mother Fran Webb, who lives in Ormond Beach, still holds hope that her youngest daughter is alive. She recently looked at a high school picture of the young woman taken when Webb graduated from Seabreeze High School in 1980, and a photograph of No. 33. She thought the two women looked somewhat alike, but could not be certain. News that Los Angeles investigators are interested in her child's case perked up Fran Webb on Friday, however. "I'm always hopeful," she said. "I know Bradford didn't kill all the girls in those pictures." lyda.longa @news-jrnl.com http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD01081906.htm

Killer's Photos May Include Missing Daytona Woman Photos Of 47 Women Taken By California Convict Generate Leads POSTED: 7:40 am EDT August 25, 2006 LOS ANGELES -- In the month since they released the photos of nearly 50 girls and women taken by a suspected serial killer, authorities said they've been flooded by more than 1,000 calls and have received at least one promising lead in Florida. Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives investigating whether the women were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984 by William Richard Bradford posted the photographs last month in hope that the public could help account for them. Bradford is on death row at San Quentin State Prison for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s. The photographs were seized from his home in 1984 and sat untouched for years until a cold-case detective decided to take a second look earlier this year. Of the 47 women in 54 photos, only 23 have been positively identified as alive, said Sheriff's Capt. Ray Peavy. One lead investigators are working on is the case of a missing Florida woman who bears a strong resemblance to a young woman in the photographs. Darlene Ann Webb disappeared Jan. 22, 1983, after leaving a Daytona Beach bar. Her family has told sheriff's officials that Webb looks very much like a woman in one of the photos. On Thursday, WKMG-TV in Orlando showed a the photo to Webb's mother, Frances, who said the photo looks like Darlene . "It is a very close resemblance," Frances Webb said. "From the nose up, it is the spitting image." Bradford, who had lived in Florida at some point, was residing in Los Angeles when Webb disappeared, officials said. One of the women who came forward was actress Eva La Rue, a star on the CBS drama "CSI: Miami" who told authorities that Bradford took photos of her and her sister, Nika, two decades ago. In several instances, family members contacted authorities convinced their loved ones were photographed by Bradford and later killed. Further investigation found that their identities didn't match. "The first thing you usually know as a detective is who the victim is. But here that is last thing we are going to know," Peavy said. Authorities said Bradford, now 60, posed as a freelance photographer and took pictures of women he met at bars and elsewhere, luring them with promises to help their modeling careers. Bradford has denied killing anyone and is appealing his conviction and death sentence. Even though he was a freelance photographer and the pictures were seized while in his possession, he may not have taken them, his attorney contended. http://www.news4jax.com/news/9735859/detail.html

Killer's Archive Yields More Photos By Michael Muskal, Times Staff Writer 11:44 AM PDT, October 3, 2006 The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department today released about 30 more photographs taken by William Richard Bradford, seeking to find out if any of the people were victims of the convicted killer. Officials in July released photos of 54 women who were photographed two decades ago by Bradford. One of those women was discovered strangled and dumped in the High Desert. About two dozen women in that first round of photographs have come forward. Bradford is on death row at San Quentin. He was convicted in 1988 in the murders of Shari Miller and Tracy Campbell. "From 1966 to 1984, Bradford posed as a freelance photographer, seeking to lure potential victims. Bradford photographed his victims in sexually explicit positions, committed sexual assaults, strangled them and disposed of their bodies in public places," according to the wanted posters listed at lacountymurders.com/wanted/LADIES1.html. The photographs were seized at Bradford's residence when he was arrested in 1984. The original group of 54 photographs sat untouched for years until a cold case detective decided to take a second look. Anyone with information about the women is being asked to call the sheriff's homicide bureau or e-mail LACountyMurders@lasd.org http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-100306photos,0,472385.story?coll=la-home-headlines

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