Re: California Democrat tree trimmer Ryan Blinston found guilty in serial slashings

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A California tree trimmer was found guilty in five brutal throat-
slashing attacks that left three people dead in the span of two
months, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

Ryan Blinston, 37, was convicted by a jury in Butte County of
murder, attempted murder and arson, the Tehama County District
Attorney’s office said.

The Orville, California, serial killer faces a mandatory
sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Blinston was working for a tree-trimming service when in May and
June 2020, he returned to his clients’ homes in Butte and Tehama
counties, north of Sacramento, after the work was completed and
slit the throats of the residents, prosecutors said.

In May 2020, he attacked Loreen Severs, 88, of Los Molinos in
Tehama County and her husband, Homer Severs, 91. Homer survived
the attack but died that December of an unrelated illness,
authorities said.

Blinston was also charged in the killing of Sandra George, 82,
and an acquaintance, Vicky Cline, 57, both of Oroville in Butte
County. He was also charged with torching Cline’s car.

Cline’s body was found by fishermen in the Feather River near
Belden on June 21.

“Damage to her throat was consistent with the other victims,”
prosecutors said.

Blinston was arrested before dawn on June 14, 2020 — about a
week after Cline vanished — by a Butte County sheriff’s SWAT
team that had tracked him to a motorhome in heavily wooded and
isolated Brush Creek, where authorities planned to arrest him on
suspicion of burning Cline’s car, prosecutors said.

The team approached the motorhome and heard the muffled screams
of a man inside and loud banging. The banging turned out to be
Blinston attempting to break into the motorhome with a hatchet,
prosecutors said.

Blinston fled into the woods, refused to drop the hatchet and
was captured after cops deployed a stun gun and pepper spray to
subdue him during a brief tussle.

Blinston had met the 50-year-old owner of the motorhome and then
stayed over because he told the man he was afraid to leave after
dark because of bears, the resident told authorities.

The man said he was sleeping when he awoke to find Blinston
attacking him with a knife, prosecutors said.

Blinston slashed his neck but the man said he was able to kick
him out of the motorhome and lock the door. A medic treated the
seriously injured man and he was airlifted to a hospital, they
said.

The SWAT team may have saved the man’s life, prosecutors said,
because the isolated area had no cellphone service and it was
unlikely anyone would have heard the man’s cries for help.

Prosecutors didn’t mention a motive for the crimes other than to
say robbery was not a motivating factor.

https://nypost.com/2022/05/19/tree-trimmer-ryan-blinston-found-
guilty-in-serial-slashings/