“I had such great sadness and empathy for my mom, knowing that not only did this happen to her, but that she basically just stuffed those feelings for how many years?” Lisa said. Lois was one of two victims who survived.Ĭarpenter is reportedly still on death row at San Quentin state prison in California. In 1960, Carpenter was arrested for attempted murder, but after being released seven years later, according to The San Francisco Gate, he killed multiple people and was dubbed the Trailside Killer. Lisa said her mother was almost raped and killed, but a military police officer saved her life. “He’s straddling me, and he had a hammer in one hand, a knife in the other.” oddly one of his victims Anna Kelly Menjivar is not mentioned.
TRAILSIDE KILLER VICTIMS SERIAL
“I thought that was it - that I was going ‘Bye bye,'” Lois, 90, reflected. Actually Clint Howard WAS a Serial Killer. The reality star said in a confessional interview that Carpenter picked up Lois at a bus stop and took her down a deserted road, where he assaulted her. “I was very lucky - I should not even be here,” Lois said on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” Tuesday.Īs Lisa recalled, Lois’ attacker was serial killer David Carpenter, who later became known as the Trailside Killer and knew Lois through work. He has long maintained his innocence.Lisa Rinna and her mother, Lois Rinna, have opened up about Lois being a victim of the Trailside Killer, who struck California from the 1960s to the early ’80s. He's been suspected of other murders he was even considered a Zodiac Killer suspect due to the similarities in the way they killed, but was eventually cleared as he was in prison during the time some of the murders occurred, reports UPI.Ĭarpenter currently still sits on death row at the age of 88. In later years, he was linked through DNA to at least one other murder: that of Mary Frances Bennett, who was stabbed to death while she was jogging in 1979, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. "From the crimes, detectives concluded that the killer enjoyed making a ritual out of the killings, inflicting psychological torture on the victims, and as Marin County Sheriff Al Howenstein put it, 'putting the victims at some point in a position of pleading for their lives,'" wrote the Los Angeles Times. He also raped some of his victims, reports the Los Angeles Times.
TRAILSIDE KILLER VICTIMS TRIAL
In 1988, he was put on trial for his crimes in Northern California, where he murdered at least five people: Cynthia Moreland, 18, Richard Stowers, 19, Anne Alderson, 26, Diane O'Connell, 22, and Shauna May, 25. He testified that Carpenter had he and Hansen begging for their lives before shooting them, according to a 1988 Los Angeles Times article. He also wounded Hansen's boyfriend, Steve Haertle, who managed to survive and put the killer behind bars. He was sentenced to prison in 1984 for murdering two 20-year-old women in the Los Angeles area, Heather Scaggs and Ellen Marie Hansen. So, who exactly is the Trailside Killer? Well, he's a serial killer named David Carpenter who was active in the 1970s and early '80s, primarily murdering hikers off trails in Northern California. Lisa Rinna credits both her and her mother's tendencies toward fear and anxiety, especially when it comes to parenting, to this unsettling encounter. From there, what followed was a terrifying struggle for her life that only ended when police, suspicious of the car driving down a deserted road at 10 a.m., intervened (see more in the clip above).
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