By 1970, he had established a booming practice in bucolic Santa Cruz, Calif. Along with a sterling reputation as an eye surgeon, citizen and friend, Ohta also had earned a considerable amount of money, and he spent much of it on the trappings of wealth. He owned a maroon Rolls-Royce, bought his wife expensive jewelry and favored colorful silk scarves instead of ties. His children attended pricey private schools.
Perhaps his most extravagant belonging was his home, in the oceanfront resort area of Soquel, 5 miles south of Santa Cruz. Perched atop a hilltop overlooking Monterey Bay, the mansion had been designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. On Oct. 19, 1970, it all went up in flames. Firefighters rushed to the blaze, only to find the two dirt roads leading to the house blocked by the doctor's Rolls and a Lincoln Continental.
What they found when they cleared the obstacles and reached the house was more than a fire. It was a scene of horror, a mass murder reminiscent of the grisly Charles Manson cult slayings just 15 months earlier.
Horrific discovery
The house at first appeared to be unoccupied. Then one of the firefighters aimed his flashlight at the lagoonlike pool and spotted a floating corpse. Four more bodies had sunk to the bottom of the pool. They were Dr. Ohta; his wife, Virginia, 43; their sons Derrick, 12, and Taggart, 11, and Ohta's secretary, Dorothy Cadwallader, 38, a married mother of two little girls. All had been bound with the doctor's bright silk scarves, and all, along with the family cat, had been shot in the neck with a .38. "Like an execution," one officer observed.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/crazed-hippy-killer-caused-horror-1970-murder-california-doctor-article-1.369122
1970 mass murderer John Linley Frazier commits suicide in prison cell
http://www.examiner.com/article/1970-mass-murderer-john-linley-frazier-commits-suicide-prison-cell
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