"A week later, Herb was hiking in the state park in Santa Cruz, in the same remote area from which he had been evicted for illegal camping a few years before. He came across a wood frame structure covered with sheets of plastic and entered the makeshift door. There were four teen age boys inside. "You must leave here immediately or I will report you -you are camping here illegally," Herb told them. They tried to talk him into leaving them alone and not reporting them. Herb pulled out his revolver. In his boyhood Herb had been trained in marksmanship, winning certificates from the National Rifle Association. Although the boys had a rifle in their makeshift tent-cabin, none had time to reach for it. Robert Spector,18, Brian Card,19, David Oliker,18, and Mark Dreibelbis,15, died instantly of gunshot wounds to the head, fired in rapid succession by the black-haired gruff stranger they had never seen before. Herb took the rifle and left.On February 13,1973, Herb awoke in his apartment and prepared to deliver a load of firewood to his parents' house. The "messages" were insistent and clear: "Before you deliver the wood I want you to kill me somebody."Driving through town, Herb saw an older man working in the yard. He was Fred Perez, 72, someone Herb had never seen before in his life. A neighbor had just opened her living room drapes when she heard a "loud, sharp crack" that sounded like a shot. She went to her front porch and saw a 1958 blue and white station wagon driving off. There was a load of something bulky in the back and a young white male was driving. There was a red "STP" sticker on the right front door, she noted. She glanced across the street to the Perez house, saw someone lying on the ground face down, and suddenly realized what had happened. She called the police, reported the shooting, and described the station wagon she had seen. She was not able to give a clear description of the driver.The description of the station wagon w...
