Viola Hagenkord was found sexually assaulted and deceased in her Anaheim apartment, 64-year-old
Andre William Lepere of Alamogordo, New Mexico, has been arrested and charged with her murder.
On February 18, 1980, Anaheim police officers responded to Hagenkord’s apartment in the
Viola Hagenkord
Neighbors became concerned when they hadn’t seen Hagenkord for two days, which was unusual because she was well known throughout her apartment complex community. Homicide detectives investigated the case extensively and collected valuable evidence, but the case went cold.
Over the course of the following decades, other homicide detectives revisited the case, but no suspects were identified. In September 2020, cold case homicide detectives once again began to investigate Hagenkord’s murder, and collaborated with the Orange County Crime Lab and the FBI’s Orange County Violent Crime Task Force.
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The family of Christopher Eisinger, a Black man who died after officers pinned him to the ground as they tried to arrest him, was awarded $2.27 million after a jury in California concluded police used unnecessary force during the 2018 confrontation.
Ex-Lake Forest insurance broker accused of taking payments but leaving clients uninsured
Orange County Register (CA)
Apr. 30 A former
Lake Forest insurance broker charged this week with more than 90 felony counts after authorities say she collected payments from 32 customers over eight years yet left them uninsured, the
California Department of Insurance said.
Karen Marie Dondanville, 53, of Mission Viejo faces dozens of charges including grand theft, insurance fraud, financial elder abuse, and forgery.
She was arrested on
Monday, April 26, she pleaded not guilty to or denied the counts.
Authorities say her scheme resulted in her collecting
$183,047 in stolen premium payments.
Insurance department authorities received multiple complaints from customers about Dondanville while she was doing business under the names