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Sacramento police said Creech’s fingerprints matched the bloody print that officers spotted on the door window of Jimmy Lee Rowe’s abandoned pickup truck on April 26, 1986, the day they found the 32-year-old Rowe’s crumpled body face down on the floorboard, two bullets in the back of his head, near the old Wonder Bread bakery off of Business 80. “We’re here from California. We’re here on an old case,” said Sacramento police Detective Kyle Jasperson’s voice on the recording played for jurors last week at Creech’s murder trial in Sacramento Superior Court.

Prosecutors have charged McMahon and Okumura, who had a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship, with first-degree murder, with a special circumstance – that it was accompanied by torture, the burning of Jackson’s chest with hot butter knives. The prosecution charged that McMahon and Okumura lured Jackson to their apartment, tied him up with an electrical cord at gunpoint, held him for two days and that McMahon shot him to death when Jackson tried to escape. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Timothy M. Frawley ordered McMahon and Okumura held over for trial at the conclusion of the two-hour preliminary hearing. The judge scheduled the trial for Jan. 15. Detective Kyle Jasperson testified that McMahon admitted that he “dispersed two rounds toward (Jackson’s) lower extremities” in the shooting that was reported at 3:51 a.m.