Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Kua whakakahoretia te whakaaetanga o te kaikohuru rangatōpū o California, nāna i patu i te hunga tokowhā, ā, kāore e taea te tono anō mō te whitu tau. Ko Brett Matthew Paul Thomas, e 56 nei ona tau, me tana hoa, ko Mark Titch, i whakawakia i te tau 1977 i muri i te mahi i nga kohuru i te wa o te tahae, i te ngana ranei ki te tahae i Orange County. Ko Thomas, 18 ona tau i taua wā, ko Titch, 17 ona tau, i whiua ki te whare herehere mō ake tonu atu, ā, ka taea pea te tuku i a ia kia tukuna. I mate a Titch i muri i nga here i te tau kua hipa. Panuku ki raro mō te ataata. I whakakahoretia te rerenga: Ko Brett Matthew Paul Thomas ((whakaahuahia), 18 (maui) i te wa o tana kohuru i te iwa o nga ra, a ko ia inaianei 56 (matau), i whakakahoretia te rerenga, a kaore e taea te tono mo nga tau e whitu. I tangohia tōna whānau: E tatari ana a Lynette Duncan i mua i tana whakaaturanga mō te whakakahoretanga o Brett Thomas, tētahi o ngā taiohi tokorua i patu i tōna pāpā me tōna tuahine 33 tau ki muri. Ko te tokorua nei he hoa noho i te whare noho o Stanton i tapaina e te pirihimana ko 'Te Zoo' na te mahi kino i reira, i kii te Ratonga Panui o te Taone. Ko tā rātau patunga tuatahi ko Laura Stoughton, 20 tau, nāna i whakararuraru te tokorua i te 21 o Hānuere 1977, i a rātau e toro atu ana ki tōna kāinga. I hopukina ia e rātau, ā, i haere ki tētahi mara kua mahue, i reira ka pupuhi a Titch i a ia mai i te tawhiti tata ki tētahi pū.22-caliber i tahaetia. E toru nga ra i muri mai, ka patua e te tokorua a Ephraim Jacob Christian, 35, i te wā o tētahi mahi pahua i Rockview Dairy. E rima rā i muri mai i tērā, ka whai a Thomas rāua ko Titch i te rangatira o tētahi whare pihi ki tōna kāinga me te whakaaro ki te tahae i a ia. I patua e rātau a Aubrey Duncan i tōna kāinga, kātahi ka patua tōna tamahine, a Denise, 18 tau te pakeke, i roto i te ngakau i muri i te whakatuwheratanga a tōna whaea i te tatau kia kitea he aha te mea i tupu. I whakamataku: Lynette Duncan, tetahi o nga tamahine ora o Aubrey Duncan, e mahara tonu ana ki te korero ki tana tuahine kua mate tana papa me Denise, i kii ia. I ora te wahine a Duncan me ētahi atu tamahine tokorua, tae atu ki tētahi tamahine 11-tau te pakeke i te whare o tētahi hoa noho. I mau te pirihimana ki a Thomas rāua ko Titch i te marama i muri mai i te rohe tata o San Bernardino, i reira...
Ko Brett Matthew Paul Thomas, 56 ona tau, kua whakakahoretia te whakaaetanga mo te whakawātea, ā, kāore e taea te tono anō mō ngā tau e whitu. I whakawakia a Brett Matthew Paul Thomas me tana hoa a Mark Titch i te tau 1977 i muri i tana mahi i nga patu e wha i te wa e ngana ana ki te tahae. Ko Lynette Duncan, tētahi o ngā tamahine ora o tētahi patunga i mea i te rā i mate ai tōna whaea i mōhio ai ia 'he tūturu te tangata pōuri'