Darlene Webb Missing 1993 FL
Serial Killer Suspect's Photo May Be Missing Daytona Woman POSTED: 4:51 pm EDT August 24, 2006 UPDATED: 5:13 pm EDT August 24, 2006
One of dozens of photos apparently taken by a serial killer suspect in California may be of a woman who vanished from Daytona Beach, Fla., according to Local 6 News.
Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives said William Richard Bradford posed as a freelance photographer and met his victims in bars.
Police believe his victims were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984. Photos of the women were posted last month in hope that the public could help account for them.
Thursday, Local 6 News showed a photo of Darlene Webb, who vanished from Daytona Beach in 1983 and a photo that appeared to be Webb allegedly taken by Bradford.
Webb's mother, Frances, said her daughter vanished in 1983 after leaving a Daytona Beach bar and the photo looks like her.
"It is a very close resemblance," Frances Webb said. "From the nose up, it is the spitting image."
Bradford is on death row at San Quentin State Prison for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s.
The photographs of the women 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 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.
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.local6.com/news/9733213/detail.html
Serial Killer Suspect's Photo May Be Missing Daytona Woman POSTED: 4:51 pm EDT August 24, 2006 UPDATED: 5:13 pm EDT August 24, 2006
One of dozens of photos apparently taken by a serial killer suspect in California may be of a woman who vanished from Daytona Beach, Fla., according to Local 6 News.
Los Angeles County sheriff's detectives said William Richard Bradford posed as a freelance photographer and met his victims in bars.
Police believe his victims were raped or killed between 1975 and 1984. Photos of the women were posted last month in hope that the public could help account for them.
Thursday, Local 6 News showed a photo of Darlene Webb, who vanished from Daytona Beach in 1983 and a photo that appeared to be Webb allegedly taken by Bradford.
Webb's mother, Frances, said her daughter vanished in 1983 after leaving a Daytona Beach bar and the photo looks like her.
"It is a very close resemblance," Frances Webb said. "From the nose up, it is the spitting image."
Bradford is on death row at San Quentin State Prison for murdering two aspiring models in the early 1980s.
The photographs of the women 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 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.
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.local6.com/news/9733213/detail.html