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This week we’re headed to 1970 Santa Cruz discussing the tragic family murder of the Ohta family and family friend Dorothy Cadwallader. Was this the work of a crazed prophet and his cult? Or was the answer simpler than anyone could have imagined? 

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Sources: 

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/10/21/archives/5-slain-on-coast-and-left-in-pool-surgeon-wife-2-children-and.html

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/11/01/opinion-fifty-years-ago-when-a-mass-murder-shocked-santa-cruz/

‘A Crime to Remember’ Season 4 Episode 7 ‘Killer Prophet.’ 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Linley_Frazier

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