| That year, a series of attacks on elderly women began, including five slayings in the nearby Los Angeles County town of Claremont. |
| Thomas had worked as a state insurance claims adjuster since 1989, the year the second wave of slayings stopped, the newspaper reported. |
| None of those convicted in the 1969 slayings in Los Angeles has been released. |
| He said Hixson was believed to still have the shotgun allegedly used in the slayings with him. |
| The national murder figures, which are up by 25 to 784, do not suggest a big surge in knife slayings. |
| Last year, Homewood again was the most violent neighborhood, with 11 slayings. |
