![]() Behind him, homes are visible, with their porch lights turned on for safety. According to the Times article, “Local undercover officers were briefed at a meeting Thursday night on the modus operandi of the Valley Intruder, who usually slips into darkened homes through unlocked doors and windows, attacks his victims while they sleep and then ransacks the home.” A sheriff’s deputy on patrol at night in Temple City, where attacks by the Night Stalker caused rising fear in the community. serial killer task force headed north to consult on the investigation. ![]() She was recovering in San Francisco General Hospital. Barbara, 62, had survived her sexual assault and a gunshot to her head. Peter, 69, was executed in his sleep with a single bullet to the temple. The assailant had entered through an unlocked second floor window. Both had been shot with a small-caliber gun. Peter and Barbara Pan were found by their son the previous Sunday morning. Block revealed that forensic evidence had linked the murder of Peter and Barbara Pan in the Lakeside District of San Francisco to the same killer who had already murdered more than ten people in the L.A. Man Linked to Valley Intruder.” Without revealing details, Los Angeles County Sheriff Sherman R. ![]() Just that morning the Orange County edition of the Los Angeles Times had run a somber front-page headline: “Slaying of S.F. He had a new girlfriend, plenty of friends in the neighborhood, and an Atari console. But James was, after all, barely a teen and enjoying the heart of his summer break from La Paz Intermediate School. It was also six weeks deep in a terrifying crime wave. It was late August of 1985, and Southern California was a few days deep in a scorching heat wave. “I slept most of the way home.” What little ventilation they got was the warm wind blowing in through the shell’s windows. “Me and my sister rode in the camper,” James Romero told me of that trip he took when he was 13. They passed Sea World’s Sky Tower drove the long, lonely stretch of highway through Camp Pendelton and passed the San Onofre nuclear power station with its blinking red beacons. The family crossed the border into California in the late afternoon with the hot sun hanging low over the Pacific. Border in Rosarito Beach, and their camper truck was finally heading north for the two-hour drive home. They had been camping ten miles south of the U.S. The Romero family was on its way back to Mission Viejo.
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