1h 30min, feb 12, 1983 y - 2 IN 1 BEACH Rodger DeVaul & Geoffrey Nelson Last seen alive

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"Last seen together on the night of Feb. 11, 1983. Nelson's body was found early the next morning and DeVaul's the next day" (LAT 12/13/88).

"Nelson and DeVaul were last seen at about 1:30am on Saturday morning, Feb. 12, 1983. Nelson's body was found at 5:30am that morning [...] DeVaul's body was found near Mt Baldy in the Angeles National Forest the next day, Sunday, but evidence showed that he could have been dumped there as early as Saturday morning" (LAT 2/15/89).

"Sometime in the late morning or early afternoon of Feb. 11, 1983, Nelson awoke at his girlfriend's house in Buena Park. [...] [Nelson and his friend Bryce Wilson] left Nelson's girlfriend's house and went to Wilson's house [a block away from Nelson's house]. There, Nelson called his mother. [...] At about 4pm the two men wandered over to the Electronic Palace, a nearby arcade. About that time, Rodger DeVaul Jr left his father's house on a bicycle he had borrowed from a friend. [...]
"DeVaul was with his girlfriend when he ran into Wilson & Nelson at the arcade a couple hours later. He left to take her home sometime between 5 and 6pm, and Nelson & Wilson wandered off.
"'We were just doing things, taking up time until nighttime,' Wilson testified. At 8:30 or 9pm, they met up with DeVaul in front of Wilson's house. They sat on the wall and talked. Wilson went inside at 11:30, and Nelson and DeVaul walked off. It was the last time they were seen together.
"The sequence of events after that is murky. At some point, Nelson and DeVaul played their guitars together, Judy Nelson said. Autopsy reports indicate they also shared some food.
"Sometime between 1 and 1:30am, Sharon House, Bryce Wilson's mother, heard someone at the door. It was Nelson, and he was asking for Wilson. She told Nelson her son was asleep. They talked for a few minutes, and he walked away. She didn't see anybody with him, she later testified.
"Mrs Nelson thinks her son may have been on his way to his girlfriend's house. It was Geoff's girlfriend, Mrs Nelson remembers, who called police the next day to report that Geoffrey Nelson was missing" (Last Ride, Ch.6).

Last Ride: https://cacoldcases.blogspot.com/p/last-ride-oc-register-may-1987.html
LAT 12/13/88: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-judge-asked-to-acq/162394468/
LAT 2/15/89: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-witness-bridge-g/162553352/

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