feb 21, 1970 - Sandra Garcia & John Franklin Hood

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Hood (24yo) & Garcia (20yo) decided to visit a stretch of beach overlooked by Santa Barbara Cemetery at 901 Channel Drive, located at the eastern tip of East Cabrillo Blvd at 6pm. The journey from where Hood picked Garcia up at her family's home of 3088 Calle Pinon, Santa Barbara, to East Beach where they parked their vehicle in a beachfront parking lot was a "leisurely" 12-15min drive.
They then walked from their car to "Cemetery Beach", arriving there at about 6:30 or 6:35pm

Some time between 6:35pm and midnight, the couple were stabbed and beaten (possibly by a fist or blunt instrument). Hood had eleven knife wounds, with the majority to his face and back. Garcia "received the brunt of the vicious attack, leaving her almost unrecognizable."

Their bodies were found the following morning by beachgoers. The bodies were under a green blanket; Sandra was lying face up, while John was lying face down in the sand. The blanket was devoid of any knife marks

A bone-handled 4" fish knife was retrieved from beneath the blanket 1ft from the bodies, partially buried in the sand, though it's unclear whether it was the murder weapon.

Five people were found murdered on the same beach in three separate incidents in 1970: Sandra Garcia & John Franklin Hood; Thomas Hayes & Home Shadwick; and Ronnee Maxine Brock. The Garcia/Hood case is more-or-less considered a semi-canonical case among Zodiac circles.

Partial lunar eclipse visible from Santa Barbara from Feb. 20 at 10:00:46pm to 2:59:22am
LUNAR PHASE: full moon
ZODIAC SIGN: pisces (third day)
DAY OF WEEK: Saturday
EVENTS: Feb. 14 = Valentines Day (7 days earlier); Feb. 16 = Presidents' Day (5 days earlier)
partial lunar eclipse 00:31; moon descending node 19:21

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