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THE MURDER OF NANCY FEUSI

11/8/2019

 
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The nearly nude body of Nancy Darlene Feusi (23), a separated mother of five, was discovered by a fisherman at 6:30 am on July 22nd 1973 alongside Pleasant Grove Road and Steelhead Creek, approximately half a mile north of West Riego Road in Sutter County. Dressed in a miniskirt and bikini-style briefs, with a blouse discovered nearby, she had been brutally stabbed 29 times in the stomach, chest and arm in what appeared a sexually driven crime. Shoe prints and tire tracks were discovered close to where the young woman was found, opening up the possibility she was murdered elsewhere and transported to the scene of the crime. 

Earlier that morning she had been dancing at Plumbers Hall, 5841 Newman Court in East Sacramento, with her last sighting alive at 43rd Street and 11th Avenue, about 2 miles southwest of Plumbers Hall. This sighting was only 3 1/2 hours prior to her body being discovered alongside Pleasant Grove Road, 15 miles north. It was clearly evident she had been transported to the location she was ultimately found by a vehicle, which investigators surmised would have been heavily bloodstained. Therefore, the location of her murder was considered to lie elsewhere, possibly close to the area she was last seen alive.  

Below I have added the relevant locations regarding Nancy's last known movements that morning.   

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The quickest route from downtown Sacramento to Pleasant Grove Road is via Interstate 5 and Highway 99, before turning east at the interchange of West Riego Road, traveling 2.74 miles to Pleasant Grove Road and then heading north for just half a mile to the body deposition site. Clearly, the murderer had many earlier opportunisties to dispose of her body on the 15-mile journey north, so one could be forgiven for believing that this location was familiar to the killer as a safe option. This opens up the possibility that the murderer was actually traveling home that morning and dropped off the body of the young woman, not only somewhere he had likely previously visited, but en route to his residence, slightly further north. Continuing north at the interchange for just 10 miles, brings you to the the census-designated place of East Nicolaus that may be familiar to some with respect to the murders of Koy Ien Saechao and Choy Fow Saelee.

On Tuesday April 22nd 1986, Laotian couple Koy Ien Saechao (48) and Choy Fow Saelee (40) were traveling back on the two-and-a-half hour journey to their residence in Dorman Road, Yuba City after visiting their son in a Merced CA hospital, situated in the area of the San Joaquin Valley of Northern California. They were only 45 minutes from home when it was believed they had opted to take a rest on the roadside edge (or ushered over by a second vehicle), near the interchange of Highway 99 and I-5 Sacramento and attacked without remorse. How the killer approached is open to question, but the assailant unleashed a barrage of gunfire into their car blowing out both front side windows, testimony to which, was the 15 small caliber shell casings scattered and retrieved from beside the vehicle. The couple suffered multiple shots to the head. Two weeks later, a letter arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle purportedly from the Zodiac Killer laying claim to the savage killings. There were reports in the newspaper that an unidentified "hitchiker" flagged down an East Nicolaus patrol officer and directed him to the murder site, although only describing it as a car accident. In the 1986 Letter the author stated "The Blue Meannies almost caught me", bringing forth the notion he was describing the encounter with the patrol officer and effectively taunting the police.   
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The distance between the crime scenes (as the crow flies) of Koy Ien Saechao and Choy Fow Saelee, to the deposition site of Nancy Feusi, is just 8 miles - and on both occasions the perpetrator may have been heading to East Nicolaus or somewhere nearby. Of course, the two crimes are separated by thirteen years and therefore probably unrelated to one another, but it was important to put the murder of Nancy Feusi into perspective from a Zodiac standpoint.

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Judith Hakari was a nurse at Sutter Hospital, who disappeared heading back to the Markston Apartments on March 7th 1970 and later discovered murdered. At 11:30 pm. Hakari calls her fiance to tell him she's leaving Sutter Memorial Hospital where she works as a nurse. By 1:30 in the morning, she has still not come home. Her fiance, waiting at her apartment, begins to worry. "He went out to the apartment complex parking lot and discovered her car was parked in the assigned space that she had," Links said. But Judith was nowhere to be seen. She was found one month later, strangled and bludgeoned to death. "Some hikers discovered a body in a shallow grave up in the town of Weimar, in Placer County. And during their investigation they determined that it was Judith Hakari," Links said.
Sutter Hospital is just two miles from the location where Nancy Feusi was last seen - although it appears the murderer in the respective cases headed in different directions to conceal the body.

Nancy Feusi was last seen at approximately 3:00 am on July 22nd 1973 and discovered at 6:30 am, just 3 1/2 hours later. The journey time by vehicle from 43rd Street and 11th Avenue in Sacramento to Pleasant Grove Road is about 30 minutes, thereby leaving a shortfall of 3 hours. Had she befriended her killer at Plumbers Hall while dancing and met her demise shortly afterwards? Had this been the case, it is likely the murderer headed to somewhere he was sure he wouldn't be spotted while disposing of the body, while minimizing the time he was driving around with a body in the bloodstained vehicle. The fact that he drove just 15 miles to this "out of the way" location, could suggest it was somebody familiar with the area and quite possibly somebody who didn't live too far beyond.

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Thanks to Chaucer from Zodiac Killer Site forum for bringing this case to my attention.
Toots
11/8/2019 06:27:54 pm

Could Zodiac have researched and targeted this women because of these 3 reasons;

a) single mom status
b) Nancy, as in Nancy Bennallack
c) Darlene, as in Darlene Ferrin

Plumbers Hall is a Union Office for plumbers/pipefitters, that looks like it has a large enough building for dances.

Toots
11/8/2019 06:50:44 pm

Plumbers Hall is a 5 min drive to Paradise Beach, a riverfront park for swimming and picnics along the American River.

And 11 min away from Nancy Bennallack and Judith Hakari's neighborhood.

JD
11/9/2019 02:21:09 am

Certainly worth an article. One never knows, though probably along the lines of Gaul and Sharp, Snoozy and Furlong, and separate from the Zodiac case. But if it was Zodiac, it would most certainly be likely that once a suspect was confirmed by DNA in this case, LE could work backward to the other cases and make the connection.

I recently came across some of my odd notes I'd completely forgotten about. Talk about wordplay: In 1956 there was a newspaper reference in a Eureka, California newspaper regarding Guardian Pines Manor Rest Home in Paradise, California. Here we have: "Eureka-Guardian of the Pines-Paradise" all in one. Not that it means anything. Just another oddity I thought worth mentioning.

Also, reference Tom Voigt's photo of a possible influence for the Lake Berryssa costume, here's a link to a 1968 San Fran Exam article providing another photo of the Australian LE suit of armor.

newspapers.com/image/458448586/?terms=australian%2Bpolice

Richard
11/9/2019 03:36:28 am

It was certainly worth adding from the Sacramento perspective, and perfectly conceivable Zodiac may have relocated after his canonical four attacks. It's likely slim odds it has anything to do with the Zodiac Killer, but worth covering from the human aspect of justice, regardless of how little difference this article will make. Thanks both.

Plumbers Hall was 2 miles from her last known location, and I doubt a single girl would walk unaccompanied for approximately 45 minutes at 2 to 3 in the morning after a night drinking and/or dancing. But who supplied the last sighting 2 miles from the dance hall. Had some friend accompanied her part of the way home. Does anybody know her home address?

JD
11/9/2019 04:20:25 am

Found a Nancy C Feusi in 1973 and a Nancy L Feusi in 1972 and 1971, but no Nancy D Feusi.

Richard
11/9/2019 05:12:38 am

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32717430/nancy_feusi/

She was living in Sacramento at the time, having moved out of the marital home I believe. But yes, she was heading in the direction you stated.

JD
11/9/2019 04:26:12 am

Nancy and husband Jerry lived at 6709 Carnation Ave in 1970. Did she continue living at the house when they separated, or did she take the children and obtain her own abode elsewhere?

Richard
11/9/2019 05:15:40 am

Maybe Chaucer can help. A book was written called "Inside Those Walls" by George Feusi.

https://www.scribd.com/book/194036271/Inside-Those-Walls

JD
11/9/2019 04:34:07 am

So she was certainly heading in the right direction if that's where she was living at the time.

Richard
11/9/2019 05:56:41 am

McAnulty’s oldest brother, 44-year-old Mike Feusi of Sacramento, told jurors that he was 7 and Angela “about 5” when their mother was murdered. Nancy Feusi, 22, was living with her five children in a hotel room after separating from their father over abuse and unfaithfulness, Hadley had said earlier. She disappeared in 1973 after going out dancing at a Sacramento area club, he said.

http://special.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/25921842-41/mcanulty-feusi-tuesday-angela-death.csp

Richard
11/9/2019 06:02:12 am

Maybe her hotel was near to 43rd Street and 11th Avenue in Sacramento and she was ambushed by somebody who knew where she was living.

Richard
11/9/2019 06:09:51 am

What I don't understand is the conflicting reporting on this case. Here is a typical one I've found in multiple places including Wikipedia "The next body turned up near Redding on 22 July. It belonged to Nancy Feusi. Practically naked, it was so badly decomposed the cause of death could not be determined".

Richard
11/9/2019 06:13:39 am

Redding is nowhere near Pleasant Grove Road or Riego Road, and her body can't decompose in about 3 hours. Where is this coming from? Every newspaper article I've read (3 in total} state the details in the article, so where is Redding coming from?

JD
11/9/2019 08:41:15 am

The motel wouldn't have been in the area of 43rd / 11th. That was all residential for blocks upon blocks. Wonder if she got a ride with someone who lived in that area, who would only take her as far as his or her residence.

Wouldn't try to wrap my head around the Redding reports. Most likely they mixed up their info, got her confused with someone else.

Roger
11/17/2019 07:25:26 pm

This 1986 letter has always intrigued me. The writing and grammar is uncannily like that of the Zodiac from the late 60s. I am not a handwriting expert but I would call it a very good match. For this reason I have always felt that Koy Ien Saechao and Choy Fow Saelee may have been victims of the original Zodiac killer, and that tends to suggest he was still actively killing in 1986.

Robert Graysmith's book Zodiac was first published in January 1st 1986. Was Zodiac "celebrating" the release of the book by killing again, still high on the belief he could not be caught?

From June 25, 1978 through to 1987 Allen Leigh was working in Vallejo, for a short time as an aide to senior citizens, then at Ace Hardware on Tennessee Street for several years, as a buyer for the tool and garden departments. If you look at radian lines, from the top of Mt Diablo, with 16.8 degrees declination for 1986, then the location on I-5 & CA-99, Sacramento is roughly along Radian 0 (or 2 pi radians), or due Magnetic North. From Vallejo, the location is roughly along 11pi/6 radians (or 330 degrees). Hmmm! Was Zodiac up to his "old tricks"?


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