SANTA ROSA, Calif. — California authorities said Friday the believe they have solved the slayings of two young Bible-camp counselors found shot to death as they slept on a Northern California beach more than a decade ago.
The killings and the mysteries surrounding them long had drawn national attention: Lindsay Cutshall, 22, and her fiance, Jason Allen, 26, were found dead next to each other on an isolated and driftwood-strewn beach near the Sonoma County village of Jenner on Aug. 18, 2004.
The two summer Bible-camp workers were still zipped into their sleeping bags on the beach about 80 miles north of San Francisco, and authorities believe they were shot in the head as they slept.
This spring, authorities arrested a Sonoma County man, Shaun Gallon, 38, in the unrelated March 24 fatal shooting of his brother, Sheriff Steve Freitas said Friday. Freitas said Gallon had come under scrutiny earlier in the beach killings, but authorities gave no details.