It became a top priority when Hagwood took over several years ago and he hired Gamberg to focus on the murders. Episode Info Subscribe now to PEOPLE, or pick up this week's issue, on newsstands now, for more on this case. As with other related evidence, the process of scientific evaluation is slow. Gamberg is having professionals analyze the tape recording comparing that male voice to recorded voices of others identified as potential or known suspects. My reasons are simple: there is no evidence tying either of these men to the murders. Growing up in Taylorsville, Kendall (Name changed for privacy) had heard about the Sharp murders from a fairly young age. Theyd never felt the need to do that prior to the murders. Thomas, the retired sheriff, also said he first heard about the letter in 2016. The onetime mountain tourist stop's forests, pond and river made it appear idyllic to kids, but it had fallen on hard times. Spring showers replenished the waterways near the Feather River, giving life to the picturesque landscape in Plumas County, about 140 miles northeast of Sacramento. "Not knowing where she'd been for three years, or even what happened to her, it's been really, really tough.". Although she was lying on her side, naked from the waist down, theres evidence that someone rearranged her from an indecent position. But the unsolved murders of a woman, two teenage boys and a girl still haunted him. The second development was something else found in the same boxes of case files: the taped anonymous phone call that tipped off the location of Tina Sharp's remains. That includes the possible mishandling of evidence Hagwood and Gamberg were determined to find. Text is available under . Those who were inside Cabin 28 the night and/or early morning hours of April 11 and 12, 1981, were somewhat prepared, according to Gamberg. These were boys he went to school with. Hes also shared some important information with the Plumas County Sheriffs Office. "I guess I don't want to relive that," she tells PEOPLE in this week's issue of the memory 35 years ago when, at age 14, she opened the front door of her family's northern California cabin to find their bloodied bodies on the living room floor. "It struck this community harder than anything," he said of the killings. It was tested for trace DNA or blood residue. Listen Now For our friends in the Deaf and Signing community, you can view an ASL version of this episode HERE. In the coming days, the hammer and knife will be scoured for any possible DNA evidence, and the tape will be examined by the FBI to see if there's a possible voice-match with anyone who has already been interviewed in connection with this case. Deputy Hank Klement was the first to arrive on scene. By. In 1980, Sue moved her kids to the Keddie area, where they lived in relative poverty. What else do you want?". It's a case that involves a triple-slaying and a missing child whose remains. There were faint but heavy footsteps walking in the dirt. Keddie Cabin Murders Solved? ", "It's a little bit confused," Sheila says of her recall after more than three decades. Tina's (the sister whose body was not found in the cabin) skull had been found due to an anonymous tip called into the police on the. Its known that Sue Sharp was home with her daughter Tina, 12, and her two sons, Rickey, 9, and Greg, 5. Meredith Corporation. Dozens peripherally involved in the case had motive, if not opportunity, yet Law enforcement immediately zeroed in on their prime suspects then, seemingly inexplicably, ignored them. Although two of the main suspects, Smartt and Boubede are dead, they were alive at the time of Tina Sharps discovery. Unsolved murders have a way of weighing on a community, the place forever haunted and the neighbors always left wondering. Among those questioned in the killings was Sue's neighbor Marty Smartt, who lived two cabins away with his wife (and Justin Smartt's mother), Marilyn. Sharp's oldest daughter, Sheila, had been at a sleepover when she returned to the family home, Cabin 28, to find her murdered family. Please enter valid email address to continue. She was also tightly gagged. Thats when Hagwood asked Gamberg, a private investigator, if hed like to take over the investigation. This case is getting old and unless new eyes come in it will go nowhere. Its suspected that someone brought a hammer, the one recovered in a nearby pond in 2016, as well as using a hammer and knives found in the home. We questioned them extensively.". A psychic online claims she visited the house and could hear the screams of the victims. He soon moved on to another job and has since retired. On April 12, 1981, a group of 7 people went to sleep in Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort Lodge in California. More to follow. The area probably wouldnt have seemed creepy to an uneducated bystander, she said. 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About the Cabin 28 Keddie Murders Case: The morning of April 12, 1981, Glenna Sue Sharp and her kids, Tina and John, and John's friend, Dana Wingate, were brutally murdered inside house #28 in Keddie, California. On April 12, 1981, a group of 7 people went to sleep in Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort Lodge in California. The discovery came three years after Tinas disappearance by a man out hunting bottles. But the unsolved murders of a woman, two teenage boys and a girl still haunted him. Outside of organized crime, that basically never happens, and even within the world of organized crime it is probably quite rare to have so many people in on a hit. In 1979 she made the brave decision to leave her abusive husband and make the move from North Carolina to Northern California to be closer to her brother who lived in the town of Quincy. In it, he describes a body found in connection with the Keddie murders. According to the crime scene report, the boys' bodies on the living room floor were bloodied around their heads and necks. Its here he would roll up his sleeves and begin going through the evidence. As a Quincy deputy who knew many of the area residents, understood and had experience in homicide investigation, and as someone who knew at least two of the victims, he believes his input should have been taken seriously. 28 of the Keddie Resort. She has never surrendered her hope the case would be solved, if only to rescue her family's reputation and by extension her own. An envelope with a cassette recording of a man telling a sheriff's dispatcher about a body that was found three years of the murders that could be one of the victims who was kidnapped from the murder scene. But because the aunt already had several children, the Sharp kids were eventually placed in foster care first together and later apart. ", "She did at least get to see her first grandchild born. While the crime was being reported, Jamie Seabolt, Sheila Sharp and possibly Zonita Seabolt helped the three young boys out a side bedroom window of the cabin. ", Of her mother, Sheila adds, "I miss talking to her, going to her if I have an issue. Updated on July 15, 2019. Also, a man recently discovered a steel blue claw-hammer using a metal detector that matched the description of one that Marty had told investigators he lost. She describes it as "more or less a self-help book, kind of how I dealt with issues that have happened in my life.". The Seabolts didnt have a telephone. "If a case needs to be pinned there," Hagwood told PEOPLE at the time, "we'll pin it. "It could be next month, it could be next year but really the focus in our priority is getting the truthgetting the answers.". And a crime that was committed so many years earlier doesnt have the priority recent crimes receive, he said. "I stayed in the cabin probably a dozen times," he said. She ultimately settled into the small town of Keddie nestled in the Sierra Nevada mountains only five miles. For some reason, the DOJ had an interest in Boubede, according to Gamberg. Why was Marty's then-wife, Marilyn Musgrove, a key conspirator and fellow murderer, not arrested? Sheila's 12-year-old sister Tina was missing from the scene but her remains were found at a different time. After countless hours of digging, the clues in the cold case started heating up, and new light is emerging on the decades-old crime. An imprint matching that of the butt of an 880 rifle was also left on Sues head. "I want to remember the happy times," she says. "I actually put in my mind that I'll probably go to my gravethat it will never be solvedand then when all this is coming out--it brought up the hope again," she said. I could still see where the cabin itself once stood, but nature had started to take over the area once more. It contained a tape recording of an anonymous caller to Butte County dispatch. I worked with them the entire summer before the murders," he said. Hagwood would graduate from California State University, Sacramento with a degree in criminal justice. Johnny was face-up, with hands and feet bound by electrical cord that also wrapped around Dana's feet. * Watch the full episode of the People Magazine Investigates After Show on the Keddie case, available Nov. 28 on People/Entertainment Weekly Network (PEN). As police continued to search for Tina, other officers brought in multiple suspects. Investigators Have a Personal Stake in the Case, 5. Perhaps one day they will finally confirm those suspicions but for now, the devastating case remains unsolved. Sheriff Hagwood gave an update on the status of the case: Sheriff Hagwood had this to say in regards to Marty Smartt and Bo Boubede being the killers: Sheila Sharp, the surviving member of the Sharp family had this to say of Hagwood: As of now, nobody has been charged and Hagwood and Gamberg continue to dig deeper into what happened that tragic night. But knowing the details, the minutiae of the crimeit was not a pleasant place to be. It has been 40 years since the tragedy took place in rural Plumas County. From 1974 until his retirement in 1994, he worked all but one of Plumas Countys cases. 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Gamberg and Hagwood reiterated their position that a resolution was imminent in a 2021 interview on the anniversary of the murders, saying that they were "close" to solving the case. Gamberg said he has hunches about what happened to it, but it hasnt been recovered. The father of Dana Wingate (the friend of the Sharps who was also killed) said in 2001 the police had "stumbled over each other and fouled up the case.". A vital thread, Gamberg said, is who knew about Tina's remains placed in an isolated wooded area in neighboring Butte County and who may have helped to put them there. On the night of April 11, 1981, four people were brutally murdered in Cabin 28 of the Keddie resort in Northern California. Truly a case of wrong place, wrong time. This murder is shrouded in mystery, leaving behind a messy and compelling trail of clues. Of Marty and Boubede, he said, "The only thing I knew is, they hung out together. Apparently, as the suspects bludgeoned and stabbed their victims to death, none of the suspects were injured or left their own blood at the scene. She said she learned of it long afterward by investigators, but she recognized her ex-husband's handwriting. Man Who 'Targeted Young Women' Convicted of Decades-Old Murders with Help of Investigative Genetic Genealogy, She Saw Her Family Murdered by a Hammer-Wielding Stranger When She Was 3. Justin Smartt Eason, 12, one of three boys left alive in a second bedroom, was allowed to spend the night. The Keddie Cabin Murders: With Mike Ferguson, Mike Morford. Main Street Artists Gallery puts the work of two artists in the spotlight for March Debbie Kercmar Boyd and, FRC is joining Plumas County and Plumas Unified School District, with campus remaining closed on Wednesday, March 1st. Dee Mack, Are you related to Angelique or Angels Mother Hester Mack then later Hester McCormick? The FBI was also involved because it was believed that Tina Sharp was abducted. "Dana was at my house the day before the homicide," he said. But that rain can't wash away the horror of what happened in the now-empty lot in the tiny resort town of Keddie. Although Sheila wouldnt realize it until later, the order of the bodies was her brother, John, who was closest to the front door. What has made this case particularly hard to organize is that the original case history log who did what and on what date is gone. The 1981 Keddie cabin murders of three family members and a teenage friend shook the small Sierra Nevada mountain communities of Keddie and Quincy in northern California, beginning a mystery that lingers decades later. Although someone had covered the body of the mother with a blanket, it did little to relieve the horrific scene the teen and law enforcement encountered. Blood was discovered on both bedroom doors and outside on the handrail of the steep back stairs. All three victims at the crime scene had been bound with medical and . Many were questioned, but without sufficient evidence nobody was convicted. The hammer, similar to one reported missing by Smartt, was dug up near the crime scene just last month. The possible motive: Marty was married to Marilyn Smartt, the mother of Justin Smartt, who was one of the kids that was found alive in the cabin. They're the ones that have kept me going. Plumas County Sheriff Greg Hagwood described what happened in Cabin 28 in. First published on May 2, 2016 / 11:47 PM. Marty Smartt's letter was an early re-discovery. All rights reserved, Privacy Policy|Online Content Agreement, The Sacramento Bee: Mother, 2 Teen-Agers Slain in Plumas Hamlet, The San Francisco Examiner: Three brutal murders, missing girl mystify Plumas County, by Steven Capps, The Lompoc Record: 3 murders puzzle authorities, by UPI, The San Francisco Examiner: Sierra resort is rocked by nightmare murders in cabin, by Steven A. 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Of course his DNA would be there! ", Thomas wasn't so sure. He found a letter written by Marty Smartt to his wife reportedly written soon after the murders. He became a deputy in his hometown in 1988. The Keddie Cabin Murders took place on April 12, 1981; Sue Sharp, two of her children, and her son's friend lost their lives. What Gamberg first encountered was the Keddie murders crime scene room. The Scene Suggests More Than One Killer. New evidence has surfaced in the infamous 37-year-old Keddie murders case. "It's my belief that there were more than two people who were involved in the totality of the crime--the disposal of the evidence and the abduction of the little girl," Hagwood said. As word spread through Keddie and the rest of Plumas County of the murders, its clearly a crime that not only affected Shelia Sharp and her remaining brothers and the boy who was spending the night, it deeply affected some members of the sheriffs office and the community, Gamberg said. He was also familiar with Cabin 28 in Keddie. Why did both DOJ and sheriff Doug Thomas skate these key suspects when LE noted they were lying, and Marty FAILED his polygraph? She reported the possibility of a homicide in Cabin 28. But that anonymous 911 caller said it was Tina's before the medical examiner confirmed it through dental records. When finding out about Sue's interference with his marriage, Marty reportedly went "ballistic" about it. Sheriff's investigators say they submitted more. It sounded like a door that rested on rusty hinges, if I had to pinpoint it, she nodded, brows furrowed. The sheriff at the time of the murders, Doug Thomas, is accused of a cover-up in many online theories. A Daughter's 35-Year Fight For Justice: Sheila Sharp Longs to Know Who Murdered Her Family in Their Cabin Sheila Sharp who discovered the victims of the Keddie Cabin 28 murders in 1981, when . / CBS Sacramento. To make things even more suspicious, the anonymous called identified the skull as Tina's. Anyone who has any information on the Keddie murders is asked to call the Keddie murders hotline at 283-6360. Unsolved in California: The Case of the Keddie Cabin Murders January 12, 2022 / Jamie Day The little town of Keddie California lies nestled in the mountains to the north-eastern part of the state in Plumas County. Defensive injuries would be discovered on her arms. A bent steak knife lay on the floor, and a butcher knife and claw hammer, both also bloodied, were side-by-side on a small wooden table near the entry into the kitchen. And 2022 could be the year this murder finally gets solved. To join the discussion, click the link below. says Sheila, now a 50-year-old mother of three and grandmother of two. Some of the evidence was placed in a freezer to preserve it. The Keddie Murders Revisited Plumas County Sheriff's Office Probable murder weapons for the Keddie slaying discovered and submitted as evidence in 2016. Victims,. A fourth victim, Tina, was missing. Sheila Sharp has purposefully pushed the horrific images out of her mind. Our Forum holds the facts of the case. And as a deputy he knew what was and wasnt happening with the case. 1. Amazingly, Sheila's two little brothers, Greg and Rick, then 5 and 10, were asleep and unharmed in an adjacent bedroom, along with a friend. A GRAPHIC Look Back at the Keddie Murders On the morning of April 11, 1981, 14-year-old Sheila Sharp returned from a neighbor's house after a sleepover and stumbled upon the most disturbing and gruesome scene that she and the rest of Keddie, California, had ever seen. I honestly believe that Marty Smartt and Bo Boubede had nothing to do with the Keddie Cabin 28 murders, and that it's awful convenient how they were fingered as suspects years after both of them were dead. 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