“I remember going to kitchen and grabed a butcher knife. “Everything happen so fast,” Carlson wrote.
I remember being full of rage at the way all my classmates were laughin at me, and the damage my parents room was in and how my dad was going to whip up on me after they found out about the party I threw." (Carlson had thrown a small party while his parents were in Reno that week and it had ended up being a disaster.) ''Carlson wrote that he remembered "looking out my window and seeing someone walking on the dirt pathway, in the field that was across the street from my house. She was taking a shortcut home from school, on foot because a group of girls had been bullying her on the schoolbus - and the day she was killed those same girls had reportedly thrown rocks at her, and threatened violence.''
He was freed by a wood-shop teacher, and he says he spotted Tina Faelz walking home after he'd returned home to drink by himself.įaelz, as the Chronicle reported via information that came out in Carlson's trial six years ago, was herself a victim of bullying, and that victimhood led her path to cross Carlson's that day. He had just earlier that day been traumatized when a group of football players at Foothill High beat him up and tossed him in a dumpster, locking him inside with food and garbage and flipping it over. ''Now 52, Carlson was just a troubled 16-year-old who attended the same high school as Faelz when he randomly stabbed her to death in a culvert outside his home on Lemonwood Way. He can be reached at Cold-Case Murder Solved Nine Years Ago Involved a Killer and a Victim Who Were Both Victims of Bullying About an hour later, she was found in a ditch, brutally stabbed to death. In April 1984, fourteen-year-old Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. This is his third book and first true crime publication. : A journalist digs into the California cold case of a teenager murdered in his hometown in this disturbing true crime account. Carlson, who was 16 at the time, and Faelz, who was stabbed 44 times, both attended Foothill High. 46, for the death of Tina Faelz on April 5, 1984. He's now the radio announcer for the Albuquerque Isotopes, the triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Guilty Verdict in 1984 Pleasanton Cold Case.
Pleasanton native Joshua Suchon was a reporter at the Oakland Tribune for ten years before switching careers to pursue a lifelong dream to become a baseball play-by-play announcer. Through dusty police files, personal interviews, letters and firsthand accounts, journalist Joshua Suchon revisits his childhood home to uncover the story of a disturbing crime and the controversial sentencing that brought long-awaited answers to a city tormented by questions. Improved forensics recovered DNA from a drop of blood found at the scene matching Tina's classmate, Steven Carlson. In 2011, the investigation finally got a break. This is a case that went cold in 1984 - with the curiosity of one investigator, it was reopened in February of 20.
With no witnesses or leads, the case went cold and remained so for nearly thirty years. This is the solved cold case of Tina Faelz. The murder shook the quiet East Bay suburb of Pleasanton and left investigators baffled. Synopsis: In April 1984, Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home.