>>1483602sleeping on the beach, simply minding their own business...
The couple, who were engaged, were on a break from performing Christian ministry at a camp in El Dorado County when they camped on a beach at the mouth of the Russian River.
Jenner beach killings suspect is slain
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By Demian Bulwa Published 4:00 am PDT, Wednesday, July 22, 2009
On August 18th, 2004 the bodies of 22-year-old Lindsay Cutshall and 26-year-old Jason Allen were located on a beach just north of Jenner, California.
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On August 18th, 2004 the bodies of 22-year-old Lindsay Cutshall and 26-year-old Jason Allen were located on a beach just north of Jenner, California.
Sonoma County investigators are looking into whether a burglary suspect who was living in the wild before he shot and killed a sheriff's deputy in New Mexico last week was responsible for two of the Bay Area's most mysterious unsolved killings.
The investigators want to know whether Joseph Henry Burgess, 62, who was killed in Thursday's shootout at a mountain cabin, shot a young couple from the Midwest who were camping on a beach in Jenner in 2004.
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Sgt. Tim Duke, a spokesman for the Sonoma County Sheriff's Department, said Tuesday that Burgess had been "up near the top" of a list of suspects in the slayings of Jason Allen, 26, of Zeeland, Mich., and Lindsay Cutshall, 22, of Fresno, Ohio.
The couple, who were engaged, were on a break from performing Christian ministry at a camp in El Dorado County when they camped on a beach at the mouth of the Russian River.
Their bodies were found They had been shot to death with a .45-caliber Marlin rifle.