Rod PachecoRiverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco, a former death penalty prosecutor who ran for office on a law-and-order ticket, vowed he would end a purported gay grifter crime spree carried out by a band of San Francisco murder suspects. Sometime boyfriends Kaushal Niroula, 27, and Daniel Garcia, 26, along with alleged coconspirators David Replogle, 60, a San Francisco lawyer, and Russell Manning, 67, a San Francisco art broker, have been charged with capital murder in connecti
Kaushal NiroulaFour San Franciscan alleged con men accused in Palm Springs of robbing and killing a 74-year-old retiree can breathe easier following a meeting last week with prosecutors, according to City News Service ace Jessica E. Davis. Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco had filed charges that, in the event of a guilty verdict, could have led to the death penalty for Kaushal Niroula and his on-again, off-again lovers Daniel Garcia and David Replogle, a San Francisco attorney. Also
Kaushal NiroulaDecember's Gay Grifter murder, in which a quartet of sex-partner-swapping purported San Francisco con men allegedly killed a lonely, elderly Palm Springs man then attempted to fraudulently sell his house had, until this week, seemed to lack a key plot element: How did police think they actually bumped off the poor old guy?We knew that Nepalese immigrant and alleged serial con man Kaushal Niroula, along with four local
co-conspirators,
allegedly made a 74-year-old Palm Springs m
Russell ManningSan Francisco art dealer Russell Manning, 67, has pleaded not guilty to murder and other charges related a to the December killing of a Palm Springs collector. He is the sixth suspect charged in the so-called gay grifter murder, in which a group of sex-partner-swapping alleged con men attempted to loot the assets of Clifford Lambert, 74.Manning had been held in a Guadalajara-area prison on unrelated charges prior to his arrest by Palm Springs police last week. Police had not to
Are the alleged Gay Grifter killers pet fanciers? According to two independent accounts of new testimony in the Gay Grifter case -- in which a crew of alleged San Francisco con men are charged with killing and robbing a Palm Springs retiree -- the suspects stabbed their victim to death, then tenderly took care of his dog.According to a pair of sources attending this week's preliminary hearing in Riverside County -- who aren't being named because they aren't authorized to talk about the case t
