Four Bodies Now Linked to White Supremacist Suspects
Four murder victims –including an African-American man shot in the head at close-range in Eureka, Calif. – are now being linked to a jailed couple with extensive criminal records and white supremacy beliefs.
It looks like the West Coast crime spree – described by one Oregon sheriff as a “vicious, wild reign of terror” – may have had a racist agenda.
Authorities on Monday said the death of Reginald Alan Clark, 53, who was found shot to death in his pickup last Friday in Eureka, was tied to the killing spree believed carried out by David “Joey” Pedersen, 31, and his girlfriend, Holly Ann Grigsby, 24.
In a weekend newspaper interview, Pedersen confessed to murdering his stepmother, father and a 19-year-old Oregon college student, and he boasted about a fourth killing not reported by law enforcement at that point.
On Monday afternoon, authorities in Washington, Oregon and California confirmed that Pedersen had been linked to the killing of Clark, who authorities confirmed is African-American.
“It was a pretty hateful crime, you can say that,” one law enforcement source said of the death of Clark. An autopsy report said he died from a gunshot wound to the head. Other details about Clark weren’t immediately available.
Two handguns and a rifle were found in a stolen car stopped on Oct. 5 by the California Highway Patrol near Marysville. Pedersen and Grigsby were taken into custody at gunpoint without incident. They remain in jail in Yuba City, Calif., under $1 million bail each.