Hello again, and welcome back to the True Crime BnB for Episode 81!

This week is a solo Just One B, episode, but I'm still bringing you two stories. But since this is a Halloween episode, neither case has a happy or uplifting ending. Apologies for breaching the format, but these two cases are important and I wanted to share them both.

The common themes of these two stories are that both took place on Halloween in the 1980's, both were in California, and both cases resulted in the death sentence for the perpetrators. You may have heard of the second case, but probably not the first.

The first is the story of the events leading up to John K Stopher's senseless murder in his own shower on Halloween, 1986, and how the criminal who killed him tried to use John's own private life as an excuse for why he did it. The man who was respons ...