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RECEIVED
FEDERAL BUREAU
OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
SC??03 150756Z
?R HQ
DE SC
? 15075 6Z APR 81
FM <from> SACRAMENTO (7A-506) (P)
TO DIRECTOR ROUTINE
QUANTICO - ATTN: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT, SA RICHARD ALUT
VIA HDQUARTERS
?F
UNCLAS
UNSUB: TINA SHARP- VICTIM. POSSIBLE KIDNAPPING. OD: SACRAMENTO
RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE TO BUREAU, APRIL 13, 1981; SACRAMENTO
TEL CALL TO SA RICHARD ALUT, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT, QUANTICO,
APRIL 15, 1981.
INVESTIGATION AT KEDDIE , CALIFORNIA, BY OFFICERS OF THE
PLUMAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS FROM
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND APPROPRIATE LAB PERSONNEL
FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAB IN SACRAMENTO, IS
CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE:
THE MURDER OF GLENNA SUSAN SHARP, DOB MARCH 24 1945, HER SON,
JOHN S. SHARP, DOB NOVEMBER 16, 1965, AND A NEIGHBOR, DANA
PAUL WINGATE, DOB FEBRURY 8, 1964. AUTOPSIES CONDUCTED
DETERMINED THAT GLENNA SHARP AND JOHN SHARP WERE BOTH STABBED
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AND BEATEN TO DEATH AND DANA WINGATE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH BUT NOT
STABBED. A HAMMER WAS THE APPARENT INSTRUMENT USED IN THE
BEATING OF GLENNA AND JOHN AND A CLAW HAMMER AND A BLUNT INSTRUMENT
SUCH AS THE BARREL OF A RIFLE WERE THE MUDER WEAPONS ON DANA
WINGATE. WINGATE'S THROAT WAS ALSO TORN OUT WITH THE CLAW HAMMER.
ALSO FOUND AT THE MURDER SCENE WAS THE FRONT SITE RAMP FROM
A RIFLE WHICH HAD APPARENTLY BROKEN OFF DURING THE BEATING.
NO SUCH WEAPON WAS LOCATED. ALL THREE VICTIMS WERE BOUND HAND
AND FOOT, THE TWO BOYS HAVING BEEN BOUND WITH ELECTRICAL CORD
AND MRS. SHARP HAVING BEEN BOUND WITH ELECTRICAL TAPE WRAPPED
AROUND HER ANKLES AND PULLED UP AND WRAPPED AROUND HER WRISTS.
HER PANTIES WERE STUFFED IN HER MOUTH AND A HATBAND FROM
WINGATE'S COWBOY-TYPE HAT WAS ALSO TIED AROUND HER MOUTH. MRS.
SHARP WAS WEARING ONLY A HOUSECOAT. AFTER BEING KILLED, MRS.
SHARP WAS COVERED WITH A BLANKET WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM
HER BED IN AN ADJOINING BEDROOM. SHE WAS NOT SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
ALTHOUGH THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN A VIOLENT
STRUGGLE PRIOR TO THE MURDERS, SOME PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM
THE SHARP LIVING ROOM WERE NOT IN A CUSTOMARY POSITION. A
CUSHION FROM THE COUCH HAS BEEN PLACED UNDER THE HEAD OF WINGATE
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AS A PILLOW AND HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN THERE AT THE TIME HE WAS
MURDERED. BLOOD WAS SPLATTERED THROUGHOUT THE LIVING ROOM WHERE
THE MURDERS TOOK PLACE AND WAS ALSO FOUND IN EVERY OTHER ROOM
IN THE HOUSE, INCLUDING AN ADJOINING BEDROOM WHERE THREE
JUVINILES WERE ASLEEP DURING THE MURDERS, ALTHOUGH ONLY A SLIGHT
AMOUNT OF BLOOD WAS FOUND IN THIS ROOM. THE THREE OTHER MINOR
CHILDREN, AGES 5, 9, AND 1? <10 or 13>, WERE UNHARMED AND DID NOT LEARN OF
THE MURDERS UNTIL THEY WERE REMOVED BY A NEIGHBOR THE FOLLOWING
MORNING AFTER THE MURDERS HAD BEEN DISCOVERED. ALSO LOCATED
IN THE MURDER HOUSE WAS A .22 CALIBER PELLET WHICH WAS LOCATED
ON THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR. ADDITIONALLY, NUMEROUS SMALL KNIFE
MARKS WERE LOCATED IN LIVING ROOM WALLS, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT KNOWN
WHETHER THESE MARKS WERE IN THE WALL PRIOR TO THE MURDERS. TWO
BLOODY FINGERPRINTS OF QUESTIONABLE VALUE WERE ALSO LOCATED ON
A LIVING ROOM WALL.
ALL EVIDENCE REMOVED FROM THE SCENE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAB FOR PROCESSING.
THE MURDERS WERE DISCOVERED BY MRS. SHARP'S DAUGHTER, SHEILA
------------------------- 4 --------------------------------
PAGE FOUR SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
SHARP, AGE 14, WHO RETURNED HOME SUNDAY MORNING AFTER SPENDING THE
NIGHT WITH A NEIGHBOR FRIEND. INTERVIEW OF SHIELA SHARP DETERMINED
THAT SHE LAST SAW HER MOTHER ALIVE AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 THE
PREVIOUS NIGHT WHEN SHE LEFT TO SPEND THE NIGHT WITH THE NEIGHBOR.
TINA WAS ASLEEP IN THE BEDROOM SHE SHARES WITH HER MOTHER AT THAT
TIME. THE TWO YOUNGER SHARP BOYS AND A NEIGHBOR FRIEND WERE
ALSO PREPARING TO GO TO BED AT THAT TIME AFTR WATCHING A
TELEVISION SHOW. NO ONE ELSE WAS PRESENT IN THE HOUSE AT THAT TIME, ACCORDING TO SHIELA.
JOHN SHARP AND DANA WINGATE APPARENTLY RETURNED HOME SOMETIME
AFTER THAT, AFTER HAVING HITCHHIKED FROM QUINCY, CALIFORNIA.,
APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES AWAY. THE BOYS WERE LAST SEEN HITCHHIKING
FROM QUINCY BY SEVERAL FRIENDS AT APPROXIMATELY 8:30 P.M. THEIR
EXACT METHOD OF TRAVEL TO KEDDIE AND THEIR ARRIVAL TIME IS UNKNOWN.
MRS. SHARP IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING DIVORCED FROM HER
HUSBAND WHO IS CURRENTLY WITH THE U. S. NAVY SEABEES, STATIONED
IN SLATON <Groton>, CONNECTICUT. HE HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE DEATHS
THROUGH THE RED CROSS AND WAS DUE TO ARRIVE IN QUINCY THE NIGHT
OF APRIL 13, 1981. MRS. SHARP WAS ALSO KNOWN TO HAVE A BOYFRIEND
IN THE KEDDIE AREA. THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS IN BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
AND HAD AN ALIBI WHICH WAS SUCCESSFULLY CHECKED OUT BY LOCAL
AUTHORITIES.
------------------------- 5 --------------------------------
PAGE FIVE SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE RELATIVE TO THE WHEREABOUTS OR FATE
OF TINA SHARP AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT RULED OUT ANY
POSSIBILITIES RE HER FATE, INCLUDING HER HAVING BEEN KIDNAPPED,
HER HAVING BEEN MURDERED AND THE BODY BEING REMOVED FROM THE SCENE, OR
HER HAVING BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN THE MURDERS. TINA SHARP
SPENT MUCH OF THE DAY OF THE MURDERS WITH HER MOTHER AND YOUNGER
BROTHRS TRAVELLING BETWEEN KEDDIE AND QUINCY, CALIFORNIA.
ACCORDING TO FRIENDS, SHE WAS KNOWN TO HAVE SEVERAL HIDING PLACES
IN THE NEARBY MOUNTAINOUS REGION AROUND KEDDIE, ALTHOUGH THE
HIDING PLACES ARE UNKOWN TO HER FRIENDS. SHE REPORTEDLY KEPT
THESE HIDING PLACES SECRET ONLY TO HERSELF BUT WAS NEVER KNOWN
TO REMAIN IN THESE PLACES OVERNIGHT. SEARCH OF THE SURROUNDING
AREAS BY PLUMAS COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE AND FRIENDS AND
NEIGHBORS OF THE VICTIMS FAILED TO LOCATE ANY TRACE OF TINA.
LIAISON WITH PLUMAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, QUINCY,
IS BEING MAINTAINED SHOULD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BE DEVELOPED
WHICH MAY SUPPORT A VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL KIDNAPPING STATUTE.
FULL RESOURCES OF THE FBI LABRTORY HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE.
------------------------- 5 --------------------------------
PAGE SIX SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
ADDITIONALLY, MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION IS BEING DEVELOPED
TO ENABLE THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT TO REVIEW THE CASE IN
AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE ON THE RESPONSIBLE
PERSON OR PERSONS WHICH MAY ASSIST LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THEIR
INVESTIGATION.
RECEIVED
FEDERAL BUREAU
OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
SC??03 150756Z
?R HQ
DE SC
? 15075 6Z APR 81
FM <from> SACRAMENTO (7A-506) (P)
TO DIRECTOR ROUTINE
QUANTICO - ATTN: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT, SA RICHARD ALUT
VIA HDQUARTERS
?F
UNCLAS
UNSUB: TINA SHARP- VICTIM. POSSIBLE KIDNAPPING. OD: SACRAMENTO
RE SACRAMENTO TELETYPE TO BUREAU, APRIL 13, 1981; SACRAMENTO
TEL CALL TO SA RICHARD ALUT, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT, QUANTICO,
APRIL 15, 1981.
INVESTIGATION AT KEDDIE , CALIFORNIA, BY OFFICERS OF THE
PLUMAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, HOMICIDE INVESTIGATORS FROM
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, AND APPROPRIATE LAB PERSONNEL
FROM THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAB IN SACRAMENTO, IS
CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ADDITIONAL INFORMATION RE:
THE MURDER OF GLENNA SUSAN SHARP, DOB MARCH 24 1945, HER SON,
JOHN S. SHARP, DOB NOVEMBER 16, 1965, AND A NEIGHBOR, DANA
PAUL WINGATE, DOB FEBRURY 8, 1964. AUTOPSIES CONDUCTED
DETERMINED THAT GLENNA SHARP AND JOHN SHARP WERE BOTH STABBED
------------------------- 2 --------------------------------
PAGE TWO SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
AND BEATEN TO DEATH AND DANA WINGATE WAS BEATEN TO DEATH BUT NOT
STABBED. A HAMMER WAS THE APPARENT INSTRUMENT USED IN THE
BEATING OF GLENNA AND JOHN AND A CLAW HAMMER AND A BLUNT INSTRUMENT
SUCH AS THE BARREL OF A RIFLE WERE THE MUDER WEAPONS ON DANA
WINGATE. WINGATE'S THROAT WAS ALSO TORN OUT WITH THE CLAW HAMMER.
ALSO FOUND AT THE MURDER SCENE WAS THE FRONT SITE RAMP FROM
A RIFLE WHICH HAD APPARENTLY BROKEN OFF DURING THE BEATING.
NO SUCH WEAPON WAS LOCATED. ALL THREE VICTIMS WERE BOUND HAND
AND FOOT, THE TWO BOYS HAVING BEEN BOUND WITH ELECTRICAL CORD
AND MRS. SHARP HAVING BEEN BOUND WITH ELECTRICAL TAPE WRAPPED
AROUND HER ANKLES AND PULLED UP AND WRAPPED AROUND HER WRISTS.
HER PANTIES WERE STUFFED IN HER MOUTH AND A HATBAND FROM
WINGATE'S COWBOY-TYPE HAT WAS ALSO TIED AROUND HER MOUTH. MRS.
SHARP WAS WEARING ONLY A HOUSECOAT. AFTER BEING KILLED, MRS.
SHARP WAS COVERED WITH A BLANKET WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED FROM
HER BED IN AN ADJOINING BEDROOM. SHE WAS NOT SEXUALLY ASSAULTED.
ALTHOUGH THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN A VIOLENT
STRUGGLE PRIOR TO THE MURDERS, SOME PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM
THE SHARP LIVING ROOM WERE NOT IN A CUSTOMARY POSITION. A
CUSHION FROM THE COUCH HAS BEEN PLACED UNDER THE HEAD OF WINGATE
------------------------- 3 --------------------------------
PAGE THREE SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
AS A PILLOW AND HAD EVIDENTLY BEEN THERE AT THE TIME HE WAS
MURDERED. BLOOD WAS SPLATTERED THROUGHOUT THE LIVING ROOM WHERE
THE MURDERS TOOK PLACE AND WAS ALSO FOUND IN EVERY OTHER ROOM
IN THE HOUSE, INCLUDING AN ADJOINING BEDROOM WHERE THREE
JUVINILES WERE ASLEEP DURING THE MURDERS, ALTHOUGH ONLY A SLIGHT
AMOUNT OF BLOOD WAS FOUND IN THIS ROOM. THE THREE OTHER MINOR
CHILDREN, AGES 5, 9, AND 1? <10 or 13>, WERE UNHARMED AND DID NOT LEARN OF
THE MURDERS UNTIL THEY WERE REMOVED BY A NEIGHBOR THE FOLLOWING
MORNING AFTER THE MURDERS HAD BEEN DISCOVERED. ALSO LOCATED
IN THE MURDER HOUSE WAS A .22 CALIBER PELLET WHICH WAS LOCATED
ON THE LIVING ROOM FLOOR. ADDITIONALLY, NUMEROUS SMALL KNIFE
MARKS WERE LOCATED IN LIVING ROOM WALLS, ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT KNOWN
WHETHER THESE MARKS WERE IN THE WALL PRIOR TO THE MURDERS. TWO
BLOODY FINGERPRINTS OF QUESTIONABLE VALUE WERE ALSO LOCATED ON
A LIVING ROOM WALL.
ALL EVIDENCE REMOVED FROM THE SCENE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE LAB FOR PROCESSING.
THE MURDERS WERE DISCOVERED BY MRS. SHARP'S DAUGHTER, SHEILA
------------------------- 4 --------------------------------
PAGE FOUR SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
SHARP, AGE 14, WHO RETURNED HOME SUNDAY MORNING AFTER SPENDING THE
NIGHT WITH A NEIGHBOR FRIEND. INTERVIEW OF SHIELA SHARP DETERMINED
THAT SHE LAST SAW HER MOTHER ALIVE AT APPROXIMATELY 10:00 THE
PREVIOUS NIGHT WHEN SHE LEFT TO SPEND THE NIGHT WITH THE NEIGHBOR.
TINA WAS ASLEEP IN THE BEDROOM SHE SHARES WITH HER MOTHER AT THAT
TIME. THE TWO YOUNGER SHARP BOYS AND A NEIGHBOR FRIEND WERE
ALSO PREPARING TO GO TO BED AT THAT TIME AFTR WATCHING A
TELEVISION SHOW. NO ONE ELSE WAS PRESENT IN THE HOUSE AT THAT TIME, ACCORDING TO SHIELA.
JOHN SHARP AND DANA WINGATE APPARENTLY RETURNED HOME SOMETIME
AFTER THAT, AFTER HAVING HITCHHIKED FROM QUINCY, CALIFORNIA.,
APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES AWAY. THE BOYS WERE LAST SEEN HITCHHIKING
FROM QUINCY BY SEVERAL FRIENDS AT APPROXIMATELY 8:30 P.M. THEIR
EXACT METHOD OF TRAVEL TO KEDDIE AND THEIR ARRIVAL TIME IS UNKNOWN.
MRS. SHARP IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING DIVORCED FROM HER
HUSBAND WHO IS CURRENTLY WITH THE U. S. NAVY SEABEES, STATIONED
IN SLATON <Groton>, CONNECTICUT. HE HAD BEEN ADVISED OF THE DEATHS
THROUGH THE RED CROSS AND WAS DUE TO ARRIVE IN QUINCY THE NIGHT
OF APRIL 13, 1981. MRS. SHARP WAS ALSO KNOWN TO HAVE A BOYFRIEND
IN THE KEDDIE AREA. THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS IN BUTTE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA,
AND HAD AN ALIBI WHICH WAS SUCCESSFULLY CHECKED OUT BY LOCAL
AUTHORITIES.
------------------------- 5 --------------------------------
PAGE FIVE SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE RELATIVE TO THE WHEREABOUTS OR FATE
OF TINA SHARP AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES HAVE NOT RULED OUT ANY
POSSIBILITIES RE HER FATE, INCLUDING HER HAVING BEEN KIDNAPPED,
HER HAVING BEEN MURDERED AND THE BODY BEING REMOVED FROM THE SCENE, OR
HER HAVING BEEN SOMEHOW INVOLVED IN THE MURDERS. TINA SHARP
SPENT MUCH OF THE DAY OF THE MURDERS WITH HER MOTHER AND YOUNGER
BROTHRS TRAVELLING BETWEEN KEDDIE AND QUINCY, CALIFORNIA.
ACCORDING TO FRIENDS, SHE WAS KNOWN TO HAVE SEVERAL HIDING PLACES
IN THE NEARBY MOUNTAINOUS REGION AROUND KEDDIE, ALTHOUGH THE
HIDING PLACES ARE UNKOWN TO HER FRIENDS. SHE REPORTEDLY KEPT
THESE HIDING PLACES SECRET ONLY TO HERSELF BUT WAS NEVER KNOWN
TO REMAIN IN THESE PLACES OVERNIGHT. SEARCH OF THE SURROUNDING
AREAS BY PLUMAS COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE AND FRIENDS AND
NEIGHBORS OF THE VICTIMS FAILED TO LOCATE ANY TRACE OF TINA.
LIAISON WITH PLUMAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE, QUINCY,
IS BEING MAINTAINED SHOULD ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BE DEVELOPED
WHICH MAY SUPPORT A VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL KIDNAPPING STATUTE.
FULL RESOURCES OF THE FBI LABRTORY HAVE BEEN MADE AVAILABLE.
------------------------- 5 --------------------------------
PAGE SIX SC 7A-506 UNCLAS
TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES.
ADDITIONALLY, MORE SPECIFIC INFORMATION IS BEING DEVELOPED
TO ENABLE THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES UNIT TO REVIEW THE CASE IN
AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP A PSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILE ON THE RESPONSIBLE
PERSON OR PERSONS WHICH MAY ASSIST LOCAL AUTHORITIES IN THEIR
INVESTIGATION.
