ent out immediately to all police in the area. Within minutes the vehicle was sighted. Herbert Mullin was arrested en route to his parents' house with a load of fire wood. He offered no resistance. At the trial, the district attorney cross- examined Herbert Mullin about the Perez killing: Q: Who decided to kill Mr. Perez, Mr. Mullin? A: Martin W. Mullin. Q: You mean that you were instructed as to how to go about this killing, then, by the voice? A: The thought I heard that morning was, "Don't deliver a stick of it [the firewood) until you kill somebody." Q: Would it be fair to say that every decision made there- after was yours? A: I don't believe decisions were made. I think it was-a rock doesn't make a decision while it's falling, it just falls.Four days after the killing of Mr. Perez, on February 17, Brian Card's older brother, Jeff, hiked up to see what his brother and his friends were doing. He was horrified at what he found and called the police. Bullets obtained at autopsy matched those from Mullin's .22 caliber revolver, already in the hands of the police. Four more counts of murder were added to the charges against Herbert W. Mullin....
