Horace Van Vaultz

In 1984, Vaultz was arrested in Huntington Beach for raping and attempting to strangle a 22-year-old woman. He pled no contest to the charge and was given probation. On May 6, 1987, Vaultz was arrested for the murder of 25-year-old Janna Kathleen Rowe, a Newbury Park waitress who was found strangled to death near the Ventura River on December 27, 1986. Vaultz claimed to have befriended Rowe after she moved to Newbury Park from Utah and had last seen her at a Ventura motel the day before her death. He provided an alibi claiming to have been in Los Angeles the day Rowe was killed; however, he had actually checked in and out of the motel around the time of her death. Vaultz was tried and acquitted of murder in January 1988. == Photographs ==

A 2019 search of Vaultz's house in Bakersfield revealed a collection of numerous photographs of young women and teenage girls, some of whom police suspect were murdered by Vaultz. Two of the women in the photographs have been identified and confirmed to be still alive. == Convictions ==

On August 18, 2022, Vaultz was convicted of first degree murder for killing Selena Keough and Mary Duggan. After the jury found special circumstances of rape and sodomy, he was subsequently sentenced to two consecutive terms of life in prison without parole on September 19, 2022. Vaultz maintains that he is innocent. == See also ==