A 96-year-old woman is murdered for hire in California while baking cookies for her birthday. Violet Evelyn Alberts, a widow with a “very valuable” home in Montecito, was the victim of an “evil and complex web of financial exploitation” There are four arrested in the case.
The medical examiner concluded that the elderly woman died of asphyxiation and that it was a homicide. Harry Basmadjian was arrested on January 2, Henry Rostomyan on February 24 and Ricardo MartinDelCampo last Tuesday.