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Greg Carr
Jul 7, 2020, 4:26:04 AM7/7/20
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http://www.modbee.com/local/story/12612719p-13318286c.html
Murder suspect built life on coast
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By SUSAN HERENDEEN
BEE STAFF WRITER
CRESCENT CITY - Robert Daniel Thompson was the only man in town who
tended to his daily chores in a Hells Angels jacket.
That, plus that he is a registered sex offender, got the attention of
Del Norte County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Morris and his detectives.
But until Merced County sheriff's deputies came calling with an arrest
warrant, stemming from the murders of two girls 20 years ago, the
self-employed landscaper gave local authorities little to sniff into.
A deputy found Thompson's photo on a biker Web site posted by the
Shasta County Hells Angels and determined that the father of four was
the club's sergeant at arms, responsible for collecting membership
dues.
And Thompson once had a few angry words with a school resource officer
who banned one of his daughter's T-shirts because it had a reference to
the notorious motorcycle club.
But Thompson had not caused any big trouble in this coastal town that
is surrounded by ancient redwood trees and a rugged coastline.
"We follow him because he is a Hells Angel," Morris said. "And he's the
only patch-wearing Hells Angel in our county."
Thompson may have left California's heartland and its sweltering
summers behind, but his past came calling this week, when authorities
from Merced paid a visit to Crescent City, 20 miles south of the Oregon
border.
Thompson, 41, was arrested Thursday, on suspicion of killing
12-year-old Jodi Marie Ragsdale and 15-year-old Sheila Carter on Dec.
13, 1986.
Friday, Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said a DNA hit tied Thompson
to the murders of the two Atwater girls who borrowed a car and went out
for a joyride when adults thought they were sleeping in their beds.
A farmer spotted Jodi's and Sheila's bodies along Campodoncia Road,
near Alves Road, in Cressey one Saturday morning two decades ago.
Jodi and Sheila died from blows to the head.
Investigators did not find the telltale signs of a struggle and
concluded that the girls were killed by someone they knew.
Suspicion fell on Thompson - a big man who stands 6 feet, 2 inches
tall - from the start.
He had been released from prison three months earlier, having spent 13
months behind bars for drug and weapons possession, according to the
state Department of Corrections.
The authorities believe he borrowed a car belonging to the stepfather
of Sheila's boyfriend on the night of the murders. They found blood on
the floor of the car.
Sheila's boyfriend killed himself two weeks later.
Convicted of kidnapping
A year after Jodi and Sheila were killed, Thompson was convicted of
kidnapping a 26-year-old Atwater woman at knifepoint in a convenience
store parking lot. In that case, he was accused of driving the woman to
Le Grand, where he forced her to undress.
She told the court that he changed his mind and let her go.
Thompson was sentenced to 14 years in prison and released after seven
years. He returned to the lockup two more times for parole violations.
He was last released in September 1998, according to the state
Department of Corrections.
Since then, Thompson and his wife, Angela, 40, have lived in various
places around the state, settling in Crescent City about 18 months ago,
Morris said.
Robert and Angela Thompson have four children, who range from preschool
age to high school. She is a licensed psychiatric technician and works
at Pelican Bay State Prison, a maximum-security lockup and the largest
employer in Del Norte County.
They live in a middle-class neighborhood, in a mustard-colored rental
house that looks more dilapidated than others on their street.
Two trucks full of brush, two pickups, a compact car and a camper van
sit on a side lawn. A heart-shaped plaque near the entryway says: "Home
is where you hang your heart." In the distance, residents can hear
barking sea lions.
A hard-working person
Saturday, Tim Thornton of Eureka answered the door at 1111 McNamara
Ave. He said he is house-sitting for Angela Thompson, who was headed to
Merced with her children. He said he doesn't know much about the stiff
criminal charges leveled against Thompson.
"From what I know, he was a hard-working person," Thornton said.
Margie Morrow, who lives next door, said she was shocked to read about
Robert Thompson in their local newspaper.
"I can't believe it took them 20 years," she said.
Morrow said she often spoke to Angela and the children but didn't have
much contact with Robert Thompson. She said the only time she talked to
him was when his pit bull chased her dog, and he later came over to
apologize.
Robert Irwin said he was once called to the home, because the Thompsons
knew he is a registered nurse and needed help with a man who had taken
too many drugs.
"I see different men over there, and I don't ask," Irwin said.
Morris believes Thompson was recruiting new members to the Hells Angels
and trying to set up a chapter in Del Norte County.
Members of the Shasta County's Hells Angels participated in a 50-mile
"Lost Coast Poker Run" Saturday - an event Thompson helped organize
- that ended at the Golden Bears Casino in Klamath, 20 miles south of
Crescent City.
They said the charges against Thompson "are bull----," then declined to
comment further.
"We're not the kind of folks who talk to newspapers," a leather-clad
woman said.
Morris and his team worked with six deputies from Merced for two days
before they arrested Thompson.
First, they set up surveillance and watched Thompson's house. People
came and went, Morris said, but Thompson never came outside.
Instead of waiting longer, they called Thompson and told him they knew
he had just returned from a huge Hells Angels rally in Sturgis, S.D.,
because officials there cited Thompson for driving on a suspended
license.
As a registered sex offender, Thompson was not supposed to leave the
county for more than five days without notifying the authorities. So
Thompson had to come to the sheriff's department to update his
paperwork.
When he arrived, deputies from Merced asked if he remembered Jodi and
Sheila.
An hour later, Angela Thompson showed up, looking for her husband.
"I had to tell her that her hubby was on his way to prison," Morris
said.
Arrest was big news
Thompson will be arraigned on first-degree murder charges this week,
480 miles from his adopted home. Prosecutors have not decided if they
will seek the death penalty.
In Merced, officials were tight-lipped about their new evidence, saying
only that investigators retested a DNA sample that was not visible to
the naked eye.
The state Department of Justice gathers blood, hair and saliva samples
from all offenders who are on parole or probation and anyone arrested
on suspicion of murder, voluntary manslaughter or serious sex crimes.
State crime labs have samples from more than 500,000 felons statewide
and get about five matches on cold cases each day.
In Crescent City, Thompson's arrest was big news.
But it wasn't the first time this town of 7,500, which has 15,000 more
people in the surrounding area, found a fugitive in its midst.
Last year, the U.S. Marshals came to town to arrest an ex-police
officer who had escaped from prison in New Mexico, Morris said.
Tony Anaya, a janitor who wishes the fishing and timber industries
hadn't dried up, said men like Thompson may be attracted to Crescent
City because it is hemmed in by mountain ranges and often covered with
fog.
"He probably thought he could just fade out here in Mayberry," Anaya
said.
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Update on Gangland Shooting In Eureka
First of all, I have to call the Times-Standard on this headline below “Alleged Mongols….”
In my opinion this is bullshit, and the TS should retract it. At this time there is no evidence that this shooting had anything to do with a Mongols – Hell’s Angels conflict, and there is no evidence that the alleged shooter is a Mongol or has ANYTHING to do with the Mongols. All we have is Chief Garr Nielsen’s casual speculation on the night of the shooting that it might be related somehow.
Here are some facts and a little speculation of my own: The alleged shooters appear to be connected to a local Eureka street gang, somewhat violent but not previously known to shoot people. It is not clear that the shooter intended to kill Thompson, or even wound him. The shots may have been fired just to scare him. 12 to 15 shots were fired implying a 9mm semi-auto or something similar from a distance of 40 to 50 feet. Thompson is a Hell’s Angel. He was convicted of kidnapping a woman. He threatend to rape his victim but did not rape her. His appearance on Megan’s List seems to be a technicality, he has not been convicted of child molestation (or any sex crime other than the kidnapping.) There are two bars right next to each other on that street in Eureka, the Shanty and the Schooner. Thompson had one drink in the Shanty, but he may well have been in the Schooner prior to that. The Schooner is a more likely place for him to have ruffled some feathers.
Here are a couple of comments below the Times-Standard article:
Anonymous
this had everything to do with that local street gang. FHK. Fort Humboldt Krew.
They run the park at night and sell their drugs out of winco parking lot, these gangsta’s are hardcore, it is a sign of the times
https://highboldtage.wordpress.com/tag/robert-daniel-thompson/ it turns out this Thompson lowlife sex criminal freek was aquited of killing the 12 and 15 year old girls years earlier.
http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/tag/hells-angels/ is very interesting.
http://www.arcataeye.com/2013/04/woman-kidnapped-threatened-made-to-take-drugs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-kidnapped-threatened-made-to-take-drugs this way hardcore.
Motorcycle clubs 1% are just about drugs and prostitution but y'all knew that already. :-)
Murder suspect built life on coast
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
By SUSAN HERENDEEN
BEE STAFF WRITER
CRESCENT CITY - Robert Daniel Thompson was the only man in town who
tended to his daily chores in a Hells Angels jacket.
That, plus that he is a registered sex offender, got the attention of
Del Norte County Sheriff's Sgt. Steve Morris and his detectives.
But until Merced County sheriff's deputies came calling with an arrest
warrant, stemming from the murders of two girls 20 years ago, the
self-employed landscaper gave local authorities little to sniff into.
A deputy found Thompson's photo on a biker Web site posted by the
Shasta County Hells Angels and determined that the father of four was
the club's sergeant at arms, responsible for collecting membership
dues.
And Thompson once had a few angry words with a school resource officer
who banned one of his daughter's T-shirts because it had a reference to
the notorious motorcycle club.
But Thompson had not caused any big trouble in this coastal town that
is surrounded by ancient redwood trees and a rugged coastline.
"We follow him because he is a Hells Angel," Morris said. "And he's the
only patch-wearing Hells Angel in our county."
Thompson may have left California's heartland and its sweltering
summers behind, but his past came calling this week, when authorities
from Merced paid a visit to Crescent City, 20 miles south of the Oregon
border.
Thompson, 41, was arrested Thursday, on suspicion of killing
12-year-old Jodi Marie Ragsdale and 15-year-old Sheila Carter on Dec.
13, 1986.
Friday, Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said a DNA hit tied Thompson
to the murders of the two Atwater girls who borrowed a car and went out
for a joyride when adults thought they were sleeping in their beds.
A farmer spotted Jodi's and Sheila's bodies along Campodoncia Road,
near Alves Road, in Cressey one Saturday morning two decades ago.
Jodi and Sheila died from blows to the head.
Investigators did not find the telltale signs of a struggle and
concluded that the girls were killed by someone they knew.
Suspicion fell on Thompson - a big man who stands 6 feet, 2 inches
tall - from the start.
He had been released from prison three months earlier, having spent 13
months behind bars for drug and weapons possession, according to the
state Department of Corrections.
The authorities believe he borrowed a car belonging to the stepfather
of Sheila's boyfriend on the night of the murders. They found blood on
the floor of the car.
Sheila's boyfriend killed himself two weeks later.
Convicted of kidnapping
A year after Jodi and Sheila were killed, Thompson was convicted of
kidnapping a 26-year-old Atwater woman at knifepoint in a convenience
store parking lot. In that case, he was accused of driving the woman to
Le Grand, where he forced her to undress.
She told the court that he changed his mind and let her go.
Thompson was sentenced to 14 years in prison and released after seven
years. He returned to the lockup two more times for parole violations.
He was last released in September 1998, according to the state
Department of Corrections.
Since then, Thompson and his wife, Angela, 40, have lived in various
places around the state, settling in Crescent City about 18 months ago,
Morris said.
Robert and Angela Thompson have four children, who range from preschool
age to high school. She is a licensed psychiatric technician and works
at Pelican Bay State Prison, a maximum-security lockup and the largest
employer in Del Norte County.
They live in a middle-class neighborhood, in a mustard-colored rental
house that looks more dilapidated than others on their street.
Two trucks full of brush, two pickups, a compact car and a camper van
sit on a side lawn. A heart-shaped plaque near the entryway says: "Home
is where you hang your heart." In the distance, residents can hear
barking sea lions.
A hard-working person
Saturday, Tim Thornton of Eureka answered the door at 1111 McNamara
Ave. He said he is house-sitting for Angela Thompson, who was headed to
Merced with her children. He said he doesn't know much about the stiff
criminal charges leveled against Thompson.
"From what I know, he was a hard-working person," Thornton said.
Margie Morrow, who lives next door, said she was shocked to read about
Robert Thompson in their local newspaper.
"I can't believe it took them 20 years," she said.
Morrow said she often spoke to Angela and the children but didn't have
much contact with Robert Thompson. She said the only time she talked to
him was when his pit bull chased her dog, and he later came over to
apologize.
Robert Irwin said he was once called to the home, because the Thompsons
knew he is a registered nurse and needed help with a man who had taken
too many drugs.
"I see different men over there, and I don't ask," Irwin said.
Morris believes Thompson was recruiting new members to the Hells Angels
and trying to set up a chapter in Del Norte County.
Members of the Shasta County's Hells Angels participated in a 50-mile
"Lost Coast Poker Run" Saturday - an event Thompson helped organize
- that ended at the Golden Bears Casino in Klamath, 20 miles south of
Crescent City.
They said the charges against Thompson "are bull----," then declined to
comment further.
"We're not the kind of folks who talk to newspapers," a leather-clad
woman said.
Morris and his team worked with six deputies from Merced for two days
before they arrested Thompson.
First, they set up surveillance and watched Thompson's house. People
came and went, Morris said, but Thompson never came outside.
Instead of waiting longer, they called Thompson and told him they knew
he had just returned from a huge Hells Angels rally in Sturgis, S.D.,
because officials there cited Thompson for driving on a suspended
license.
As a registered sex offender, Thompson was not supposed to leave the
county for more than five days without notifying the authorities. So
Thompson had to come to the sheriff's department to update his
paperwork.
When he arrived, deputies from Merced asked if he remembered Jodi and
Sheila.
An hour later, Angela Thompson showed up, looking for her husband.
"I had to tell her that her hubby was on his way to prison," Morris
said.
Arrest was big news
Thompson will be arraigned on first-degree murder charges this week,
480 miles from his adopted home. Prosecutors have not decided if they
will seek the death penalty.
In Merced, officials were tight-lipped about their new evidence, saying
only that investigators retested a DNA sample that was not visible to
the naked eye.
The state Department of Justice gathers blood, hair and saliva samples
from all offenders who are on parole or probation and anyone arrested
on suspicion of murder, voluntary manslaughter or serious sex crimes.
State crime labs have samples from more than 500,000 felons statewide
and get about five matches on cold cases each day.
In Crescent City, Thompson's arrest was big news.
But it wasn't the first time this town of 7,500, which has 15,000 more
people in the surrounding area, found a fugitive in its midst.
Last year, the U.S. Marshals came to town to arrest an ex-police
officer who had escaped from prison in New Mexico, Morris said.
Tony Anaya, a janitor who wishes the fishing and timber industries
hadn't dried up, said men like Thompson may be attracted to Crescent
City because it is hemmed in by mountain ranges and often covered with
fog.
"He probably thought he could just fade out here in Mayberry," Anaya
said.
==============================================================================
Update on Gangland Shooting In Eureka
First of all, I have to call the Times-Standard on this headline below “Alleged Mongols….”
In my opinion this is bullshit, and the TS should retract it. At this time there is no evidence that this shooting had anything to do with a Mongols – Hell’s Angels conflict, and there is no evidence that the alleged shooter is a Mongol or has ANYTHING to do with the Mongols. All we have is Chief Garr Nielsen’s casual speculation on the night of the shooting that it might be related somehow.
Here are some facts and a little speculation of my own: The alleged shooters appear to be connected to a local Eureka street gang, somewhat violent but not previously known to shoot people. It is not clear that the shooter intended to kill Thompson, or even wound him. The shots may have been fired just to scare him. 12 to 15 shots were fired implying a 9mm semi-auto or something similar from a distance of 40 to 50 feet. Thompson is a Hell’s Angel. He was convicted of kidnapping a woman. He threatend to rape his victim but did not rape her. His appearance on Megan’s List seems to be a technicality, he has not been convicted of child molestation (or any sex crime other than the kidnapping.) There are two bars right next to each other on that street in Eureka, the Shanty and the Schooner. Thompson had one drink in the Shanty, but he may well have been in the Schooner prior to that. The Schooner is a more likely place for him to have ruffled some feathers.
Here are a couple of comments below the Times-Standard article:
Anonymous
this had everything to do with that local street gang. FHK. Fort Humboldt Krew.
They run the park at night and sell their drugs out of winco parking lot, these gangsta’s are hardcore, it is a sign of the times
https://highboldtage.wordpress.com/tag/robert-daniel-thompson/ it turns out this Thompson lowlife sex criminal freek was aquited of killing the 12 and 15 year old girls years earlier.
http://www.insidesocal.com/sgvcrime/tag/hells-angels/ is very interesting.
http://www.arcataeye.com/2013/04/woman-kidnapped-threatened-made-to-take-drugs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=woman-kidnapped-threatened-made-to-take-drugs this way hardcore.
Motorcycle clubs 1% are just about drugs and prostitution but y'all knew that already. :-)
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