I can shed some light on the man accused of committing the murders. My husband and I were very young, (I was 17) living in Redondo
Beach, in late 1972/early 1973. It was an age of ‘crash pads’ and hippies, and our door was always open to friends. A rather round man named John Mahue was one of our friends. we were pretty much always broke, and he always seemed to have money, even though I don’t think he had a job. So he would sometimes take us out to eat (we went a lot to Norms on Hawthorne Blvd.) Other times he would leave money for us in places where he knew we would find it, like in our books or in the tv guide.
We thought he was just a regular guy. Never would have suspected he could commit such a gruesome murder.
A day or so after the murders, he was arrested and taken to the jail in Torrance. The night he was jailed, he died of a massive overdose of barbituates. I have always found it odd that he had access to downers, since he would have been searched before being put in a cell. Nevertheless, upon his death, the police said that he was the killer. We’ll never know if he was or not. I’ll leave the conclusion to the reader.
I can shed some light on the man accused of committing the murders. My husband and I were very young, (I was 17) living in Redondo
Beach, in late 1972/early 1973. It was an age of ‘crash pads’ and hippies, and our door was always open to friends. A rather round man named John Mahue was one of our friends. we were pretty much always broke, and he always seemed to have money, even though I don’t think he had a job. So he would sometimes take us out to eat (we went a lot to Norms on Hawthorne Blvd.) Other times he would leave money for us in places where he knew we would find it, like in our books or in the tv guide.
We thought he was just a regular guy. Never would have suspected he could commit such a gruesome murder.
A day or so after the murders, he was arrested and taken to the jail in Torrance. The night he was jailed, he died of a massive overdose of barbituates. I have always found it odd that he had access to downers, since he would have been searched before being put in a cell. Nevertheless, upon his death, the police said that he was the killer. We’ll never know if he was or not. I’ll leave the conclusion to the reader.