Deputies awarded for saving blind man after stabbing in Victorville last year
Victorville Daily Press
Five sheriff’s deputies are being credited for their swift actions after responding to a scene in Victorville last year where an attacker wielded a large knife after stabbing a blind man.
Corporal Daniel Maddox and deputies Taylor Wetzel, Eshton Smith, Omar Romero-Rios and Brandon Moreland each received the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s Lifesaving Award.
Deputies responded to the Desert Breeze Mobile Home Park the morning of Aug. 25, 2020 after receiving a report from a caller who said two men could be heard “yelling and crying” inside a trailer, the Daily Press reported.
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A Virginia woman searching for her biological mother assisted detectives in solving a 40-year-old cold case slaying.
Christine Salley “always knew she had been adopted,” according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Office. This month, Salley, 41, discovered her mother was positively identified as one of the victims of a mysterious double murder dating back decades, authorities said.
The remains of Salley’s mother, Pamela Duffey, were found by an archeologist in a “shallow grave” in the California desert in 1980. Her body was found alongside William Everette Lane. Autopsies revealed they’d been beaten and shot. Both victims were naked.
Two victims of a 1980 double homicide near Ludlow have been identified, according to officials.
Pamela Dianne Duffy, one of the victims, was identified after her biological daughter, Christine Marie Salley, hired a private investigator in April 2018. The private investigator had one goal find Salley s biological parents, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff s Department.
Salley’s DNA was sent to GEDmatch on Dec. 11, 2020. The results indicated she shared a mother-daughter relationship with one of the Ludlow victims. After receiving another sample of Salley’s DNA, the California Department of Justice Lab was able to positively identify Duffy in April.
The second victim, William Everette Lane, was also identified through Salley’s help. According to investigators, she told them that before her mother went missing, she was connected with a male who went by “Diggers Lane” and that he had served time in a Virginia prison.
Updated on April 24, 2021 at 8:26 am
San Bernardino County Sheriff s Office
Authorities have finally identified the bodies of two homicide victims who were found buried in the Southern California desert in 1980 and linked to a man imprisoned for murder in Mississippi, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said.
A chain of events that began with a woman using DNA to try to find her biological parents led to the identification of the victims as Pamela Dianne Duffey, born in 1959, and William Everette Lane, born in 1960, a department statement said Wednesday.
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