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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 93-year-old antheral serving a beingness condemnation successful Tulare County was denied parole for a 1973 execution of an advertizing enforcement from Los Angeles, according to the Tulare County District Attorney's Office.
District Attorney Tim Ward said a virtual proceeding was held Wednesday wherever prosecutors secured a three-year denial of parole for Gerald Daniel Walker for murder.
Gerald Daniel WalkerWard says connected February 27, 1973, deputies with the Tulare County Sheriff’s Office received a telephone from Beverly Hills that thing unspeakable had happened astatine River Valley Ranch successful Springville. When deputies responded they recovered the assemblage of William Ashlock, an advertizing enforcement from Los Angeles, successful a chamber wrapped successful a bedspread changeable successful the head.
Investigators accidental Ashlock, Walker and Hope Nivens Masters were astatine the ranch.
According to the DA's office, Walker was pretending to beryllium a photojournalist profiling Ashlock’s presumption arsenic an “eligible bachelor” successful Los Angeles - and Masters was the girl of a partial proprietor of the ranch.
After the murder, the DA's bureau said Walker and Masters traveled to Beverly Hills wherever Walker utilized a fake sanction of “Tyler Taylor” arsenic his sanction and told Tulare County authorities that Masters had witnessed a execution and that her beingness was successful danger.
Masters contacted her parents, telling them she had witnessed a “hit” and had been raped by the killer. Walker was located successful aboriginal March utilizing Ashlock’s recognition cards astatine a Howard Johnson’s edifice successful North Hollywood. Masters aboriginal testified against Walker astatine his trial. He was recovered blameworthy of first-degree execution successful 1974 and sentenced to beingness successful prison.
This was Walker’s 15th parole hearing. The District Attorney’s Office says it regularly attends beingness parole hearings and a Supervising Deputy District Attorney argued against the inmate’s merchandise successful this case.
At the hearing, commissioners noted Walker’s recorded deficiency of programming and self-reflection portion successful custody. Walker refused to beryllium portion of the proceedings.
