LAKES MC Gregory Jolley Head & legs found (12h 30min, sep 15, 1979 y – 18h 50min, sep 15, 1979 y)

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"Sheriff's homicide detectives sped to the area after a passerby reported a 'funny smell' coming from the trash bin Saturday afternoon [9/15/79]. [...] The head and body parts were 'probably' in the trash bin two days before they were discovered" (SBCS 9/17/79).

"Gregory Wallace Jolley [...] is believed to have been killed two to five days before his headless body was found last Friday [9/14/79] stuffed in a plastic trash bag off Highway 330, sheriff's homicide investigators said. The next day officers found the young man's severed head and 'other body parts' -- also wrapped in plastic trash bags -- in a garbage bin here [in San Bernardino]. [...] '[His parents] said [to investigators] that for the past two months they had been unaware of his whereabouts'" (SBCS 9/20/79).

"Missing two months. Body found Sept. 14, 1979, in garbage bag in Running Springs area, 10 miles northeast of San Bernardino, with head and legs missing. Head and legs found in San Bernardino service station dumpster next day. Sexually mutilated" (1987 Full List).


SBCS 9/15/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun-gregory-jo/197252748/
SBCS 9/17/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun-gregory-jo/197252751/
VDP 9/20/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-press-body-identified-as-gregory-w/140298483/
SBCS 9/20/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun-murder-vic/140295129/
LAT 9/21/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-gregory-jolley/199533062/

SBCS 10/12/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun-gregory-jo/38627211/

SDUT 12/23/79: https://cacoldcases.blogspot.com/p/sdut-on-freeway-killings-dec-23-1979.html

SBCS 12/31/79: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-bernardino-county-sun-gregory-jo/199533019/

FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/88537026/gregory_wallace-jolley

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