The retired Vaca PD officers remember the investigation of the killing of Vaca Teen from 1982 -the Vacaville reporter –

Two retired police officers in the retired Vacaville On Wednesday reminded of the early days of the investigation into the murder of de Anna Lynn Johnson (14) from Vacaville, as a statement on the third day of the court against Marvin Ray Markle Jr., who is charged with murder in the case.

The 88 -year -old Joseph Munoz, a long -standing resident of Vacaville who worked in the police department for 28 years, said that on November 16, he came across Johnson's poorly beaten body, one day after Will C. Wood Junior High Student left a party in a Royal Oaks trip home that was only the block from her own house.

“I was able to say that she was a teenager,” said Munoz, who needed an audio assistant in the Witness box in Department 2 of the Solano Solano in Vallejo to hear questions from the deputy deputy district prosecutor Paul Saceira.

“I worked out a missing person's report,” he said, adding, “I already thought it was the missing person.”

Johnson's body was found on or near the railway rails along the Elmira Road near her house. Investigators believe that it was strangled with a rock or a large piece of broken concrete and put to death.

Sequeira showed Munoz half a dozen or more color photos from the body location, an area at this time that is widespread with salprotebrush, weeds, rubble and garbage. Sequeira also showed him a close -up of her head, and Munoz confirmed that he saw “serious injuries to her head” and that “she was pushed down with a lot of strength”.

He and another investigator also searched for others who may have been used to kill them, he said.

Sequeira continued to build his case after two past certificates and then showed him a photo of a concrete block with blood and other photos. This included photos of Johnson's hands, the bloodspitzer, their hand and fingernails, one of their palms with blood on it, and a photo of a hand with a ring.

Johnson's mother, in the report of the missing person, said her daughter wore her final ring in 1963 in 1963.

Sequeira stood next to the witness stand and also released a medium -sized rock with blood, but did not relieve it and showed it Munoz.

The retired officer said from Johnson's body's location that he could see her home.

When the investigation continued, Munoz began to interview some of the party participants and added that he received “some phone calls and tips” in the days.

Munoz continued his work on the case two years later, he said and also worked on the case of his entire anniversary of the 1991 police service.

The deputy, deputy alternative defender Thomas A. Barrett returned to earlier surveys to a fireplace poker, which was possibly used in killing. The configuration of the poker, he said, agrees with markings in Johnson's face, and the poker belonged to someone in the Royal Oaks Drive Party House. Her body was exhumed in 1984 to compare the facial wounds with the poker.

During the afternoon session, the retired Vacaville police officer Don Waller, who worked in the department for 28 years and during the Johnson Murder Investigation Detective, checked a protocol of an interview on November 20, which he had led after killing.

The interview with a participant in the male party stated that Johnson left the party at 8 p.m. because of her output lock at 8 p.m.

Later that evening, according to the interviewed person Waller, he said that he remembered that Marvin Ray Markle Jr., who was known as a “Ziggy” at the time, was seen with blood in his hands after returning to the party.

Markle told him that he had to climb the barbed wire fence behind the house to get out of the Putah Creek Canal area. Asked why he was in the sewer area, Markle reported reportedly: “I was looking for another person.”

A day or two later, Waller discovered Markle Fahrrad and then asked him that he could receive the clothes that he was wearing on November 15, on the night of the party, and if Markle, 17, and a student at the County High, Vacaville Unified's continuation High School at that time, would submit an interview.

Markle agreed and Waller went to Markle's house and discovered some tennis shoes that were “still wet”.

Waller said Markle told him that he had washed his shoes after bursting some oil.

Sequeira then opened another test of evidence and removed the tennis shoes, which put them on the witness switch. He, Markle, did it in a light gray shirt over brown pants.

Judge Daniel Healy, who provides for the case, informed the jurors beforehand that the trial could take a few weeks.

In recent years, when the case turned through the County Court, the legal proceedings have been awarded more than once and then cleared.

As already reported, Markle was not guilty in February 2017 in connection with Johnson's death when he was arrested a month earlier Valley State Prison for murder and use a fatal weapon. At the time of his arrest, he served an 80-year prison sentence for murder of a Biggs woman from 2001, a fact that was probably not presented during the trial.

It was the death of Shirley Ann Pratt, 41, in Butte County, who led to Markle's arrest in the Vacaville case. On the morning of October 12, 2001, Pratt was found naked in the Oroville Wildlife area, dead from an apparent gunshot wound to the face. In July 2013, the department officials of the Sheriff by Butte County Markle, who was later brought to court and convicted. Since then he has remained either in the State prison or in the district prison custody.

In the Vacaville case, Johnson was reported to be missing for the first time after court records on the night of November 15, 1982 after her brother, another party participant, returned home and found that she was not there and was over her outcome.

The next day, her body was found by an employee of the South Pacific Railway near the tracks along the Elmira Road.

The Solano district prosecutor submitted his complaint against Markle on July 31, 2017, and on January 16 and 17, 2018 there was a preliminary hearing.

If Markle, who stays in the Solano County prison, is found guilty in a state prison sentence in a state prison sentence in court proceedings, 25 years ago, the possibility is more time for a previously convicted criminal.

The process will continue on Monday at 8:30 a.m. in Department 2 of the judicial building in Vallejo.