Following his 2012 arrest for the 1986 rape-murder of a hitchhiker in Ben Lomond, California, Kelley additionally confessed to murdering a couple two years later in Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, near Crescent City.

[3] In September 1986, Kelley was convicted of statutory rape in rural Santa Clara County, for which he spent 90 days in jail and three years of probation.

Although smart and friendly, she had a history of running away and avoided returning to her parents, who had opted to relocate to Fort Wayne, Indiana because of cheaper living costs.

On August 14, 1988, married couple Douglas Neal Anderson, 26, and his wife, Rozina Anne, 31, left their home in Lake Oswego, Oregon to camp out in northern California.

[2] Not long after, a tourist noticed that the couple's black cocker spaniel was tied up outside the van, and after deciding to check on it, found that the vehicle had been riddled with bullet holes and a foul odor came from it.

[2] In 2012, after being granted funds by federal agents, the crime lab in San Mateo County decided to run the DNA of Annette Thur's killer through CODIS, which matched that of John William Kelley, a convicted rapist who lived in Placerville.