Scott failed to show up to her job at a club just blocks away from her home on Nov. 20, so a friend went to check on her. She found Scott laying in the middle of her living room, nude and unconscious.
Scott s sister Rosalie Sanz, who was only 16 at the time, remembers the night her family received the news.
“It was night and the doorbell rang, which was odd, Sanz said. “There were two men wearing suits at the door and I thought this can t be good.”
“I came out of my bedroom and I asked what happened and she [my mom] said ‘Mary was raped and strangled,” added Sanz.
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – A man who allegedly murdered a City Heights woman at her home more than a half-century ago, then was identified as a suspect through forensic genealogy and arrested on the East Coast this year, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a murder charge.
John Sipos, 75, is accused in the Nov. 20, 1969, slaying of 24-year-old Mary Scott, who was found dead inside her home in the 4000 block of 39th Street, according to San Diego police.
Deputy District Attorney Chris Lindberg said Sipos broke into the woman’s home, raped and strangled her, breaking her jaw in the process.
Police and prosecutors have not commented on a suspected motive for the killing or the relationship, if any, between Sipos and Scott.
FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA
DA clears law enforcement officers of wrongdoing in four in-custody deaths, notes meth as a factor in each [The San Diego Union-Tribune]
The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office on Friday announced that it has cleared police officers and sheriff’s deputies involved in four unrelated incidents in which men lost consciousness during their respective arrests and later died.
Methamphetamine was a factor in all four deaths, the office said.
The District Attorney’s Office found that the officers or deputies involved in each incident had acted reasonably and bore no criminal liability.
The Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that three of the deaths were accidental. A district attorney spokeswoman said the fourth case, in which an Oceanside police fired a Taser, was classified a homicide. The classification does not require criminal intent or intent to harm, the spokeswoman said.
By JA
Dec 18, 2020
A two-day human trafficking operation, coordinated by the San Diego County Human Trafficking Task Force, freed a 16-year-old girl and 11 women from their captors this week. Deputies arrested five men for suspected prostitution-related violations, and a woman for the trafficking of a minor.
On Monday and Tuesday, Operation Home for the Holidays went into action with detectives from the San Diego County Sheriff s Department working undercover as sex buyers looking for online ads of suspected juveniles. I m proud of the great work being done by the San Diego County Human Trafficking Task Force, Sheriff Bill Gore said. The cooperation between the sheriff s department and our local, state and federal law enforcement partners is sending a clear message that human trafficking will not be tolerated in San Diego County.
SAN DIEGO
The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office on Friday announced that it has cleared police officers and sheriff’s deputies involved in four unrelated incidents in which men lost consciousness during their respective arrests and later died.
Methamphetamine was a factor in all four deaths, the office said.
The District Attorney’s Office found that the officers or deputies involved in each incident had acted reasonably and bore no criminal liability.
The Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that three of the deaths were accidental. A district attorney spokeswoman said the fourth case, in which an Oceanside police fired a Taser, was classified a homicide. The classification does not require criminal intent or intent to harm, the spokeswoman said.