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Duncan,a former marine reservist was bright and funny to ron's quiet tried. duncan got a job after high school, we'll run went to college. they both grew up in l.a., and we're best friends for years. duncan stepfather was a professor at ucla where ron went to school. nathan was from detroit. ended up in l.a. after serving in the army. he had been a great athlete growing up. a football star. runner up boxing champ as a teenager. he was the most recent member of the trio. duncan told detectives that on the night of the murder, summer souls this, ron had planned to take the bus to ucla to visit h...

Student at ucla. >> so i called his apartment, and i was told that he had been dropped off at a bus stop. and he was going to meet at ucla. and he had his roommate telling me that. >> the next morning. ron still had not returned home. and then the phone rang again. same, strange voice. >> he said unless you give us $100,000 by 5:00, he will die. and at that time, i really did become worried. and i called the police. >> runs all their sister, patty, rushed over to her parents house. >> the police put a wire on the phone, nobody called back. the longer it wentz, the more worried that we got. >> ...

They probably, quickly got off the occult trail. it was very clear. >> not a ritual that all? >> there was no ritual. >> the wicca jazz faded away. and it became even more of non interest to us. >> so, while the media was focused on wicca, that detectives returned to more normal sources of police work. they talk to people who are with ron on the day that he died. roommate nathan was back in town, and ready to talk. not that he seem to know very much. and neither did duncan for that matter. though he was eager to help. the two told the same story. they dropped run off at the bus stop the night ...

This? >> no. not at all. or why. >> and while ron baker of all people? he was a compassionate, kind, coast churchgoing methodist. not an envy in the world. >> my brother, he was a really positive person. a real gentle soul. he was very smart. he was majoring in astrophysics at ucla. >> intellectually curious? >> yes. definitely. >> which probably explained why, methodist or not, he joined a club at ucla called the mystic circle. where he met fellow student, christine. >> we would meet, and here lectures and talks from people who practice a variety of different traditions, and alternative relig...

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