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...these cases based on the time he was in and out of custody, his location in regard to a lot of these crimes, the crimes we have proved against him already and the modus operandi on those crimes, [which] match the MOs on these crimes," says Detective Richard Bengtson of the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division, Cold Case Homicide Section, which cracked the case. "If we are able to prove even half of these cases, it would make him [one of] L.A.'s most prolific serial killers, if not the United States...
Thomas, who is being held on $1 million bail, will be arraigned on May 20 for the murders of Sokoloff and McKeown. He does not face the death penalty because the murders took place before the death penalty was reinstated in 1978, says Bengtson, the lead detective on the case. However, if Thomas is charged with subsequent crimes that took place in 1978 or later, the death penalty may be considered. Police feel confident that more victims will be identified. "It's just in its infancy stage, and it's only going to get bigger," says Bengtson. "We're just...
...NANCY BENGTSON, TISKILWA...
...Often this comes with an epiphany: 'Oh, my God, Dad's getting old,'" says University of Southern California sociologist Vern Bengtson. A small event, like superorganized Mom losing her checkbook, may be the trigger. Or the recognition of parental decline may dawn gradually. Some offspring fight off the reality until a crisis hits, while others fret and nag long before their parents need any help. Many folks, Bengston points out, enter old age relatively healthy, still helping their kids with baby-sitting and financial support, but their offspring may overreact to small, normal signs of their parents' aging...
Generous parents explain themselves in various ways. Vern Bengtson, 59, a University of Southern California professor and father of three daughters, allows that he has spent a small fortune on his children since the early 1990s. He and his wife Hanna, 57, helped Julie, 31, buy a condo and Erin, 28, start a business in Santa Barbara. They have also been funding Kristina, 27, who tried a modeling and singing career in New York City and then returned to California to attend college. Bengtson expresses the same ambivalence so many parents in his situation do when he admits, "When they...