The jury found Frazier to be legally sane, and he was tried and convicted of five counts of murder. He was captured four days after murdering the Ohta family.
The next morning, October 23, at 7:30 A.M., the two deputies captured Frazier while he slept. The two deputies staked out the vicinity of the cabin for 20 hours, hiding in some nearby brush. Upon entering the cabin they found it to be empty but noticed signs of recent activity. Two sheriff's deputies, Bradley Arbsland and Rodney Sanford, went into the woods and found the cabin reported to be where Frazier lived. There were also reports of Frazier being seen driving the Ohtas' missing station wagon. 38 caliber revolver, was believed to have been used in the slayings. Neighbors informed police that they had seen Frazier patrolling Soquel, California, armed with a gun.
Frazier fled in Virginia Ohta’s station wagon, which he later abandoned and burned in a railroad tunnel. He set fire to the home and blocked the roads to the property with the doctor’s car and the secretary’s car. Materialism must die, or Mankind will stop. I and my comrades from this day forth will fight until death or freedom against anyone who does not support natural life on this planet. From this day forward, anyone and/or everyone or company of persons who misuses the natural environment or destroys same will suffer the penalty of death by the People of the Free Universe. Today World War III will begin, as bought to you by the People of the Free Universe. 38 caliber revolver and pushed their bodies in the home's swimming pool.Īfter the killings, Frazier typed a note on a typewriter owned by Ohta, which he left on the window of Ohta's Rolls-Royce. Frazier proceeded to murder Ohta, his wife, their two sons, and Ohta's medical secretary. Perched atop a hilltop overlooking Monterey Bay, the mansion had been designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. On October 19, 1970, Frazier entered the home of wealthy ophthalmologist Victor Ohta in the oceanfront resort area of Soquel, a few miles south of Santa Cruz. A week before the murders, he told his wife that "some materialists might have to die" for him to fulfill his destiny. The murders took place a little over a year after the Tate–LaBianca murders by Manson Family members in Los Angeles as well as the Zodiac Killer murders in San Francisco.įrazier had convinced himself that he was the John referred to in the New Testament’s Book of Revelations, and efforts by his wife and mother to get Frazier to seek therapy were unsuccessful. God, Frazier told friends, had chosen him to save the environment. He believed the voice of God was telling him to commit homicides in order to prevent the environment from being destroyed by rich men like Victor Ohta. Following a car accident in the late 1960s, he had become a religious fanatic who obsessively studied the Bible. John Linley Frazier was born in Ohio on January 26, 1946.
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