A year and a half later, in July 1981, 35-year-old Cheri Domingo, a corporate secretary, and 28-year-old Gregory Sanchez, an electronic engineering technician, were found shot and bludgeoned to death in a home located on Toltec Way in Goleta, according to an article published at the time in the Santa Maria Times. Until his arrest, American-born Pierre Haobsh lived with his French-born father, Frederick Smith, or Frederick Haobsh, in rented rooms of an Oceanside house. In addition, Han was intrigued by the prospect of deploying stem cells in the manufacture of skin-regenerating cosmetics. However, in 1972, the now-Santa Barbara County Sheriffs Office issued a press release stating that the killings were the work of the infamous serial killer. It focused on the citys ordinance against camping or sleeping outside. I have a shotgun ready for the day I find out whoever may have done this.. Staff Writer David Minsky can be reached at dminsky@santamariasun.com. He was fined $20. He was held in a Santa Barbara County jail on $500,000 bond. It turned out to be Michael Joseph Pepe. The family initially settled in Inglewood, California, and then moved to Solvang, where his father, Nis, ran a restaurant. Years into the investigation the case remained unsolved. Both came from messed-up families. In his possession was a loaded 9mm and property that detectives believe belonged to the Hans, said Brown. She had joined Radha Soami, and at a satsang meeting she mentioned she needed a place to live. With an eerie noir atmosphere, Shorts murder became a popular subject of books and films, and it even inspired the name of a heavy metal band. When the Press newspaper offices were destroyed in an arson fire, Gray was the chief suspect, though no charges were ever filed. But political activist Selma Rubin, later dubbed the Mother of Earth Day, forced Berman's plan onto the ballot. Sgt. They are still loved. Hed hoped to grow his own on his own land. Domingos was 18 and Edwards was 17. Artists Scaling Down, Thinking Bigger at Santa Barbara City College Exhibition. The body was discovered first, lacking a head. For the past 30 years, Hana skilled, quietly charismatic, and by all accounts brilliant herbal doctorhad treated roughly 13,000 people, many confronting serious health challenges such as cancer, osteoporosis, and hepatitis. Santa Barbara . The dirt bike riders cooperated with authorities and provided the Weekly with photos date-stamped Jan 1986 showing they rode the Corridor to Eureka Valley and back on Yamaha bikes that didn't have foot pegs to carry passengers. When Han, normally precise and punctual, did not show, the partners grew concerned. Also in the tub were Casey's friend Greg Snyder and a military man, Mike the Marine. The Bermans talked about wanting to visit Indian ruins, Snyder says. Camper Brian Casey tells the Weekly that a small pickup pulled up that evening, its headlights shining into the hot tub, and soon Barry and Louise, conspicuous because they wore swimsuits, climbed in. Yanikians plan was simple. But his brutal murder at the hands of a cadet at Northwestern Preparatory School here on Aug. 4--the second killing of a transient here in nine months--has become a symbol in an ongoing battle . Trew Knowledge. His mother was a talented ob-gyn, and his father was a dermatologist; medical practitioners went back in the Han family for many generations. On May 26, 1979, the decomposed body of Laura Benjamin, 22, was found in a drainage culvert near Big Tujunga Dam. Although the anticipated response to this statement would be one of skepticism, let me say that we do not make this assertion frivolously, the press release stated. On May 22, 1977, the remains of Mary Sarris, 19, were discovered in a remote area near Los Alamos Canyon. His killer was not identified. Zemaitis remembers his fathers frustration about the FBIs inaction after contacting the agency regarding Shorts time in Santa Barbara County. All of the murders have either occurred here or their victims were somehow connected to Santa Barbara County. He marked the spot with a cairn and carried the skull to camp. Use this page here to login for your Independent subscription. If you believe an Independent.com user or any material appearing on Independent.com is copyrighted material used without proper permission, please click here. BLM ranger Albert, now retired, calls it the largest search effort in Inyo County history., Lucas, who rose to Inyo County sheriff before retiring in Arkansas, today says: I kept calling in more and more people. When police were done inspecting the Datsun pickup truck, Pauline Colbert, a friend who had dinner with the Bermans before they left Santa Barbara, drove their truck to their house on Refugio Road and saw their Christmas presents still under the tree. She was working as a secretary and living with her teenage daughter, Laura, in Goleta. Memorials for family and friends who have lost family and friends to murder. Kahlua after turning the Mexican coffee-flavored drink into Americas top-selling liqueur. The death of Short remains one of Los Angeles oldest unsolved murders. Michael Stephensons body was found in the gazebo at Alameda Park, where he had been stabbed 16 times and had his throat cut with sufficient force to sever his spinal cord. She was working as a secretary and living with her teenage daughter, Laura, in Goleta. Retired Inyo County Sheriff's deputy Leon Boyer, who has lived with the baffling case for three decades, today says, You can't commit a homicide and get away with it.. [20], Patricia Laney has become a prominent symbol for groups that advocate against violence to women in the Santa Barbara/Goleta/Isla Vista area. Domingos was three years older than him.His cousin said he looked up to Domingos. Louise and Barry Berman at the ashram in India known as the Dera. Words were exchanged. The two investigators pressed him, and Pepe eventually said, Oh hell, I might have gone to the peace [sign] that day. Pepe said he didn't remember if he was on foot or in his truck, saying, I think I went off um checking up whatever area it was., Deputy Leon Boyers sketch of Mike the Marine; Credit: Photo by Doug Kari, Asked if he'd brought up the idea of a threesome at the camp, he responded, I do recall conversations like that coming up., An investigator said, Perhaps you had put feelers out towards the Bermans to see if they would be willing to participate in such an activity? The Marine responded, I don't think that's true.. Site by The next day a forensics team unearthed human remains, the underwire from a bra and the waistband from a pair of underwear. It took a few days for the killing to seep into Santa Barbaras collective consciousness. [6], Patricia Marie Laney A fifth intended victim escaped with a bullet in her head, and later identified him in a Los Angeles bar. [5][9], On August 20, 1979, Christiansen was charged with the murder of Laura Benjamin. On January 20, 1979, the body of Jacqueline Rook, 21, was found, shot in the head, in Refugio Canyon near Santa Barbara. Richard Martinez, whose son Christopher was murdered during the UC Santa Barbara shooting massacre, sat down with Peter Rodger, the father of the gunman. -1 Likes, 0 Comments - Santa Barbara HS Young Life (@sbdonsyounglife) on Instagram: "MURDER MYSTERY CLUB TONIGHT!!! Dental records confirmed the remains were Barry and Louise. David Kurtzman | Photo: Christopher Gardner, Blessed with a cheerful, open face and a mustache that would be the envy of any firefighter, Stephenson had been living rough in Santa Barbara for about three years. Higher education no longer denoted a member of a parasitic class. This put wealthy, beautiful Santa Barbara in the crosshairs of the emerging homeless rights movement. The California historical newspaper archives are great for people whose families settled in the west, especially during the gold rush. It has yet to be approved by the Senate, however, and no voteas yethas been scheduled. Then, using Korb's directions to a natural hot springs, they'd see Saline Valley in the Mojave. In 1880, Gray again sought his partys nomination for District Attorney. Nadine came from a traditional Circassian-Middle Eastern family, reads her online biography. He'd been having an affair, his marriage was in trouble and, he'd said, the stress was building and building., Pepe admitted that he had visited Saline Valley around New Year's but claimed not to remember where he camped. He did the one-on-one with the patients; his assistants mixed the herbal concoctions. Former sheriff's deputy Boyer says, Pepe has skated and skated and skated. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Alex Murdaugh's defense attorneys will deliver their closing arguments in his murder trial on Wednesday as they seek to raise reasonable doubt about whether he killed his wife and son in 2021 . More than two months later, in late December, the Santa Maria Times reported that 35-year-old Santa Maria psychologist Alexandria Manning and 44-year-old Dr. Robert Offerman were found murdered, shot multiple times, in a residence located on Avenida Pequena in Goleta. Domingos cousin recalls massive funerals for the couple. Once, he beat a priest senseless. Before he became known as the Golden State Killer, he was called the East Area Rapist and is tied to the rapes of at least 45 women in the east Sacramento area during the late 1970s, according to the FBI. Although they began as roommates in Barry's seaside cottage, Korb recalls how one day he saw Louise playfully grab Barry's balls and realized that the two had become intimate. The second trial ended in a conviction and a 20-year sentence, but the verdict was overturned when it came out that the jurors had sequestered themselves with 20 gallons of beer, three bottles of wine, and an indeterminate quantity of whiskey. The next day, Jan. 6, Casey, Snyder and their buddy Mark Muscio drank coffee spiked with Kahlua and rode off on Yamaha dirt bikes, following a ragged set of tracks called the Eureka-Saline Corridor, which leads to Eureka Valley and some of North America's tallest sand dunes. It was a terrible irony when flash floods in a distant desert uncovered the remains of his friends. Above Lower Springs, about a dozen campers orbited the less-developed Palm Spring oasis. Haobshs arraignment was postponed due to Dozer, Ladinig, and Montez taking issue with the Public Defenders Office having obtained a weekend order from Judge James Herman to meet with Haobsh in County Jail before he had requested an attorney. The charges drew global attention for the shocking crimes against little girls at his home in Phnom Penh. It was the murder of a homeless man in a city decried for its homeless laws in the county where the president lived. All rights reserved. Three Murders That Made Santa Barbara Shiver Armenians and Greeks, Bullies and Editors, Teen Soldiers and Homeless by Nick Welsh | Published October 31, 2019 Santa Barbara may be paradise, but its inhabitants have been killing each other in ways mundane and spectacular since the days of Adam and Eve. National homeless rights advocate Mitch Snyder vowed to wage a massive civil disobedience campaign in the city. Its believed that the Golden State Killer would sometimes call his victims homes pretending he had called a wrong number. Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Noozhawk is a founding member of the Local Independent Online News (LION) Publishers . Santa Barbara may be paradise, but its inhabitants have been killing each other in ways mundane and spectacular since the days of Adam and Eve. Police also believe he was responsible for a slew of burglaries in neighborhoods where the rapes occurred. Unlike some herbalists and acupuncture practitioners who saw themselves as distinct from traditional Western medicine, he practiced an East-West blend of practices. The Isla Vista Juggling Festival has been held annually in her memory since 1977, and is still active as of 2019. CBD is also found in marijuana, but in hemp, the levels of THCthe compound that gets users stonedare sufficiently low enough to be legal in the United States. THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) Rescuers using cranes and heavy machinery on Thursday searched the wreckage of trains involved in a deadly collision that sent Greece into national mourning and . For me, they were not really human. The next morning, four of those students reported the crime to police, turning over the perpetrators bloodstained clothes as evidence. He was very smug., Some of Barry and Louise's fellow spiritualists believe that, in the truest sense, they are still alive. Even though it wasnt Hans discipline, he crammed nonstop for two solid weeks, took the tests, and qualified for one of the openings. When asked whether he could hear from his position behind protective glass, he said, Yes, I can. When asked if, at prosecutors request, he agreed to postpone his arraignment by two weeks, he said, Yes, I do.. The next year, on July 19, 1987, a sheriff's spokesman told the News-Press, We believe the Bermans were the victims of foul play [but] we have absolutely no motive, and don't, in fact, have any evidence of a crime.. A 2007 movie, Zodiac, directed by David Fincher and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr., points to a man by the name of Arthur Leigh Allen, but no conclusive evidence backs up this theory. When Ganner came to the aid of his future wife, who got a flat tire at the hot springs, he joked he was her knight in naked armor.. He didnt want them to suffer, he later testified, but he also told the jury, I destroyed two evils. Realizing the men were still alive, he pulled out another handguna Browningand shot both in the head twice. You just have to wait it out, Carlson recalls being told. He caught the attention of investigators in February 1977, when he was cited for being a minor in possession of liquor. Thirty-six hours later, detectives developed leads that implicated Pierre Haobsh, an Oceanside resident and a business acquaintance of Han, in the murders, which authorities say were motivated by financial gain. Haobsh was recently involved in a business transaction with Mr. Han, Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said at a Friday briefing. Four suspects convicted; one trial pending. The unnamed woman repeated to the Weekly what she told long-ago investigators: Mike the Marine told us he'd been in a threesome. SpouseParentChildSiblingFamily memberOther, Sweet James has my permission to help provide a free police report, Ciel Spa aka @CielSpaBH located the SLS Hotel i, Welcoming over 100,000 people every year, what beg, The holiday season is a time of giving! On Dec. 30, 1979, Debra Manning and Robert Offerman were killed in Goleta, near Santa Barbara. However, his arrest came about when Lydia Preston called investigators on July 11, 1979, stating she saw her attacker at a bar in Hollywood. Though nobody acknowledges it, the massive government response clearly was prompted by Jules Berman's political and business connections. Minier made him out to be a sleazeball, noting that Yanikian wrote a book detailing the sex lives of college coeds and that he tried to pick up a waitress two nights before the killings. The point being, the more things change, the more they dont. For a while, Han worked with an herbal practitioner named Jean Yu, owner of the Herb Clinic. Lucas' team jimmied open the Datsun and found two cameras with undeveloped film inside. He wasnt passionate about the case, but it upset him that they didnt get back to him.. In the early 1940s, before her grisly murder in Los Angeles, Short spent a considerable amount of time in Santa Barbara County. Louise was concerned that they were falling apart, recalls her son Michael Westerman. Domingos taught him how to shoot a .22 rifle. Ann Louise Bardach, noted global journalist, said she visited Han in the 1990s to deal with intestinal issues born of her high-stress work. But Casey, now a mechanic living in Browns Valley, California, tells the Weekly that he saw Mike the Marine unloading gear from his pickup, apparently preparing for a day trip. Barry, who had chosen ironworking as his craft, settled into one of three weathered cottages on the El Capitan land overlooking the ocean. Wilson, and left in a state of insensibility., Originally from Illinois, Glancey had the personality and physique of an ax handle. The young men were jacked out of their minds on adrenaline, testosterone, and hyperactive fantasies of revenge. Camacho pled guilty to murder in the second degree on Jan. 20, 2023 and is set to be sentenced on Mar. When Henry Han was shot to death last week, nearly 200 patients suddenly found themselves without their doctor. Soon De la Guerra Plaza was packed morning, noon, and night with homeless people and their supporters. In life, Stephenson had made it past his 29th birthday. 1980 - June 9, 2000 Shot. Police found the murdered couple's grave nearby they were buried atop one another. He and his wife, Ruth, were so desperate that they enlisted psychic Char Margolis, known for her appearances on Regis Philbin's TV show AM Los Angeles. Maybe this act will bring attention., It did, though not as he had thought. Korb says the property was so remote that when he brought Mike Love of The Beach Boys to visit the couple, Love's vintage Rolls-Royce, leaking oil and straining up their corkscrew road, caught fire. On June 18, 1980, Christiansen was sentenced to life in a maximum security prison. Sullivan even gave birth to her daughter in one of the cottages as Barry looked on. It was surreal, she recalls. Last year, both parents died, one two weeks after the other. [18] The plea change came just weeks after the Los Angeles trial, where Christiansen was found sane by six out of at least seven psychiatrists. He married an American citizen, but the marriage didnt last. Many from Lompoc High School went off to a beach on this day, June 4, 1963. Nadine Courtney, a beauty blogger and former Newlyweds reality TV star, told the Associated Press via email Saturday that she is Haobshs sister. Soon after Yanikians conviction, 40 Turkish diplomats were gunned down around the world. Minutes later, he shot her in the ear. While a candidate, President Trump had bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and get away with it. On Oct. 1, 1979, a couple from Goleta survived an attack from a man believed to be the Golden State Killer, according to a report in the Santa Maria Times. Life was good, with Barry focusing on his ironworking business, Valley Forgeworks, and hosting satsang meetings with Louise. Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce E. Dudley announced . The last attack was in 1986,. The suspect was identified as Gabriel Jose Zepeda, a 46-year-old transient that was arrested without incident. I recall Emilys love of serving me delicious sand cupcakes she had prepared during outdoor play. Neely recommended grieving families light a candle to honor Emily and her parents. The number of currently unsolved California murders is absolutely shocking. I quickly took care of that, he says. He came alone, hung around, ogled at girls with no clothes on and had a sexual motivation.. Charismatic and manipulative, hed been conjuring schemes with a secret society he dubbed The Nine. He talked of building missiles and sodium bombs and trip wires. This week, over 40 years later, Gresham police identified a Troutdale. [4][19], On March 30, 1981, Christiansen died after being stabbed once in the chest while walking in the exercise yard at Folsom State Prison. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which can investigate crimes involving Marine Corps personnel, began working on the case, and lead NCIS investigator Cheryl Craycraft dogged Michael Pepe. Wouldyou sign up for any of the relief plans for natural gas bills? A guide to Santa Barbara's philanthropic community. Over time, Hans practice grew. . They had families and friends. The ammunition, Winchester Western Super X copper-coated bullets, matched the bullets used in the other Zodiac murders. His bail is set at $1,000,000. Barry spent time in India at a sprawling ashram known as the Dera, home to the spiritual society Radha Soami Satsang Beas, attending a daily satsang, or truth group, led by a guru master. Trailers housed permanent residents, including Chili Bob, the campground host, and Major Tom Ganner, now a glacier guide and photographer in Alaska. The Domingos and Edwards murders are just two of the 26 cold cases in Santa Barbara County, some of which are believed to have been committed by infamous serial killers. His father, Joseph, was a career Navy man, his mother, Dorothy, a registered nurse. Santa Barbara area voters defeated it by a wide margin. Deputy Boyer tells the Weekly that thinking like a deviant led him to conclude that a perpetrator had hobbled the Bermans in the desert by removing their shoes. As Carlson described it, He went underground for a while. When something comes up, I always want to help.. Bobby was always thoughtful.. Santa Barbara prosecutors Hilary Dozer and Ben Ladinig, public defenders Christine Voss and Mindi Boulet, and Deputy County Counsel Michelle Montezwho represents the Sheriffs Officewill return to court April 12. After the murder of his brother, Yanikians family moved from their Armenian village, seeking refuge throughout the region. During the tumultuous and freewheeling years of the late 1960s and early 1970s in the San Francisco Bay Area, a killer emerged. The Marine captain seemed an unlikely suspect. Tramel thought to bring along Kurtzmans 10-inch hunting knife, the blade blackened in the flame of a eucalyptus candle. They dined out every couple of months, often in the company of Paul Relis, cofounder of the Community Environmental Council. A California man convicted of killing a Santa Barbara County family, including its 5-year-old daughter, will serve life in prison, a judge ruled Friday. The notorious "Golden State Killer" was behind serial rapes and murders across California in the 1970s and 1980s -- but decades passed before a suspect was identified. Back in California, he formally joined Radha Soami, pledging to follow the Path of avegetarian diet, moral behavior, daily meditation and abstinence from drugs and alcohol. Three couples were attacked in remote locations, either shot or stabbed, and in all but one case, only the female victims died. Trew Knowledge. A couple was found murdered at their home in Ventura. It screwed me up. She was last seen on November 20, 1976. They searched a maze of narrow canyons and dry waterfalls but found nothing. Looking further into this, according to the same report, from 1965 to 2019 there were roughly 128,787 murders in California alone. Instead, he sought out Henry Han. Copyright Santa Maria Sun. In recent years, Han started branching out into new medical and business opportunities. She miraculously survived. Detectives are reopening the investigation into the decades-old unsolved killing of a teenage boy near Santa Barbara with the help of technology that didn't exist at the time. Again, there were horrified objections from the Press. She had been a community volunteer with organizations that advocated against violence to women. She had been missing since December 6, 1976. The buyer, Mollie Purnell, bought the firearm at a gun store in San Leandro, California. Mountain ranges rise abruptly from open desert and on one of the lower slopes, an enormous peace sign, crafted from volcanic rocks, has been left by desert visitors. Williams recently drove to the federal prison in Tucson, Arizona, and met with Pepe. One of the most notorious, and perhaps gruesome, murders connected to Santa Barbara County is that of Elizabeth Short, whose nude body was found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, in 1947. DNA testing initially showed that the Santa Barbara murders were committed by a killer separate from the Original Night Stalker. Barry, who owned a sailboat and sometimes navigated the Pacific coastline, talked about sailing alone to New Zealand. But the brook that sometimes trickled across Refugio Road had become a raging torrent, and Laura and her VW were swept downstream and slammed into a bridge. In 1880, Graya charismatic, if frightening, force within Santa Barbaras Republican Partyactually shot and killed the editor of the Santa Barbara Press in broad daylight on State Street. This summer, the 74-year-old former police officer pleaded guilty to 13 counts of first-degree murder. A nightmare beyond a nightmare.. Yet it wasn't until eight days after their disappearance that a search-and-rescue team headed by Sgt. Pepe, who told investigators that when alone in the desert he carried a gun, did not respond to multiple letters seeking comment sent by the Weekly. On Nov. 20, 1986, nearly a year after the couple vanished, Inyo County Sheriff's investigators Randy Nixon and Marston Mottweiler asked Pepe for a meeting. Yet Pepe revealed the fact that Barry was an experienced boater and navigator. Charlene Smith was bound . We have found that there appears to be a high degree of probability that this subject is responsible for the double murder in our county., The police never said how they came to this conclusion. He said he'd quit smoking, [but] he wanted to trade some canned goods for a pack of cigarettes., After the trio of dirt bikers returned, talk turned to the couple from Santa Barbara had anyone seen them that day? I wanted to get that guy out of there. He told the Sun that just before his death, Domingos landed a job driving a fuel delivery truck for Atlantic Richfield oil company. Though more than a half-century-old, the mystery of the Zodiac lingers, and police believe he could still be at large. There were people coming and going at all hours of the night.. Not so much anymore. Thirty years later, the FBI, in conjunction with police from Contra Costa and Sacramento counties, announced in June a national campaign to identify the killer. It was national news when Santa Barbara lawyers won a case before the Supreme Court allowing those with no fixed abode to register to vote. Six weeks after Barry and Louise disappeared, Inyo County investigators landed their first solid lead: Two pairs of Nikes were found tucked under a bush by the dirt road below Palm Spring. Martinez hopes the incident will shed. Saline Valley was peaceful Chili Bob had a two-way radio but mainly used it for medical emergencies. With rippling, wind-formed sand dunes, the valley boasts some of California's most magnificent scenery. It was at their instigation that authorities initiated the welfare check that led to the discovery of Hans dead body and that of his wife and daughter. For the first time in 35 years, Congress has just now passed a resolution acknowledging the genocide of the Armenians. Charges filed against Haobsh name special circumstancesincluding premeditation, lying in wait, and murder for financial gainwhich may make him eligible for the death penalty or life in prison without parole. I had a bad feeling about him., When the various visitors broke camp, no one immediately thought to tell the authorities that the Bermans were still out there a serious oversight. Gnesa was a part of the party that found the bodies of Domingos and Edwards. The Sun researched three of the most notorious unsolved cases for this story. On July 11, 1979, Preston spotted Christiansen at a bar in Hollywood. When they heard sounds from the gazebo, they went to investigate. Today, the cliffside cottages are owned by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, but long ago the land was home to Chumash Indians. She gave so much to her patients.. Michael Westerman says his mom and Barry were two souls headed in the same direction. That direction led them to the vanishing point. The younger Haobsh left a scarce Internet trail (he had a Facebook page with one profile picture visible to the public). [13], Following a delay, on March 24, 1980, Christiansen withdrew his double plea in favor of a diminished capacity defense. Three years before he died, Berman told UCLA's oral history program that, because of the brutal killings of his son and daughter-in-law, My philosophy is, if there's a God, he's not for me; he's for someone else.. It was the last time they were seen alive. On the afternoon before they disappeared in 1986, Barry and Louise Berman followed a bone-jarring road deep into the California desert. But when the two got back to their dorm, Tramel bragged to other students: We bagged a Mexican. When no one believed him, Tramel led them to the scene. Once, he recalls how Domingos had a brush with death when he accidentally shot himself in the lip with a .22 bullet, the same kind of gun that would end his life just a few years later. Copyright 2023 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Christiansen also said he killed his victims, took them to a secluded place, unclothed them, and sexually explored their bodies. Henry Han originally opened his clinic in the Lobero Building in downtown Santa Barbara and subsequently at its current location behind Chucks steak house on upper State Street. Michael Westerman, Louise Berman's son; Credit: Photo by Doug Kari. She had alabaster skin and light blue eyes that contrasted with her black hair. Now, spurred by L.A. 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