Carlson’s confession came "too little, too late," said Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Stacie Pettigrew, who recalled the damning impact the teen’s murder had on the family. “That part makes me feel better to get confirmation, but it doesn’t resolve anything." "It is nice knowing that he’s admitting it, it’s 100 percent him,” Faelz’s brother, Drew, told the Chronicle Herald. "You were just minding your own business, having to walk home by yourself and have to walk through that scary drainage tunnel could have also been terrifying to a 14 year old girl but only to be horrifically suprized by me attacking and brutily murdering you," Carlson wrote.įaelz’s family, surprised by the confession 36 years after her death, were adamant, however, that Carlson’s words were of little comfort. In 2011, Carlson, who was already jailed at the time, was linked to Faelz’s murder after blood found on the dead teenager’s handbag matched his DNA, the Mercury News reported. "I just remember standing over her bloody body holding a bloody knife. "I don’t remember the stabbing motions," he wrote. I walked across the street into the field at the ‘gully’ that’s where at the time was Tina Faelz."Ĭarlson, who wrote that he blacked out, claimed he later awoke hovering over Faelz’s lifeless body. I remember going to kitchen and grabed a butcher knife.
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"I remember being full of rage at the way all my classmates were laughin at me, and the damage my parents room was in and how my dad was going to whip up on me after they found out about the party I threw," he said. Before cornering Faelz with a kitchen blade as she walked home from school, Carlson recounted how he was bullied over a house-party he tried to throw at his parents’ home. Thats what makes this murder so callous and horrific."Ĭarlson also described the anger surging through him the day he stabbed Faelz 44 times using a butcher knife. I want you and your family to know you did absolutly nothing to deserve what I did to you. "I was living in denial for many years not being able to believe or take responsibility for brutily murdering you on that day of April 5, 1984. Through dusty police files, personal interviews, letters and firsthand accounts, journalist Joshua Suchon revisits his childhood home to uncover the story of a disturbing crime and the controversial sentencing that brought long-awaited answers to a city tormented by questions."This letter of my deepest apologies is way over due," he penned in one letter, according to the Chronicle Herald.
Improved forensics recovered DNA from a drop of blood found at the scene matching Tina's classmate, Steven Carlson. In 2011, the investigation finally got a break.
With no witnesses or leads, the case went cold and remained so for nearly thirty years. The murder shook the quiet East Bay suburb of Pleasanton and left investigators baffled. About an hour later, she was found in a ditch, brutally stabbed to death. => In April 1984, Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. Hoopla Extract Information stdClass Object Murder in pleasanton tina faelz and the search for justice Go To Grouped Work Reload Cover Reload Enrichment Grouping Information Grouped Work ID
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