Record Searchlight Stories: Unsolved murders in Redding

With her bones crushed and her skin stripped from her flesh, 17-year-old Tina Denise Stensaa whimpered “help me” to her rescuers before she died.

A convicted serial killer serving several consecutive life sentences in Oregon says he didn’t murder a woman in Weed in 1986, although Siskiyou County Sheriff’s investigators suspect he may have.

It’s been nearly 22 years since the partially clothed body of a 43-year-old Redding woman was found in Caldwell Park.

More than two decades after 43-year-old Judith Hasselstrom’s strangled body was found in Caldwell Park, testimony began Tuesday in the murder trial of the Redding man accused of her killing.

Brian Harper was convicted Tuesday afternoon of murdering a Shasta County woman nearly 22 years after her battered, strangled and nearly nude body was found in Caldwell Park.

Twenty-seven years ago Shingletown was in a panic.

An investigation into one of Shasta County’s most mysterious unsolved murders appears to be taking on new life.

DNA evidence has linked a 43-year-old Iowa convicted rapist to a 19-year-old murder and rape in Redding, police said Tuesday.

A Burney woman who faces retrial in the shooting death of her husband 18 years ago had her bail reduced Wednesday.

A 30-year-old Red Bluff homeless man accused of beating another man to death nearly four years earlier has pleaded not guilty to the cold case murder.

LOS ANGELES — An arrest has been made in a Southern California cold case murder whose victim has family ties in Redding.

LOS ANGELES — An arrest has been made in a Southern California cold-case murder that has ties to Redding.

A Mendocino County man awaiting trial there for murder has been arrested for the 2005 kidnapping and murder of a Fort Jones woman, it was announced today by the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office.

A suspected killer serving a maximum 10-year prison sentence at the foreboding Iowa State Penitentiary for sexual assault is fighting his return to Shasta County to stand trial for a nearly 20-year-old murder in Redding.