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Saturday, September 20, 2003 Posted: 0048 GMT
Convicted murderer William Floyd Zamastil walks off a plane at the San Bernardino International Airport in San Bernardino, California.
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SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) -- A man accused of clubbing to death a brother and sister 25 years ago in the Mojave Desert was extradited Thursday from Wisconsin to face capital murder charges.
William F. Zamastil, 51, is charged with the 1978 robbery and murders of Malcolm Bradshaw, 17, and his sister Jacqueline, 18, of Los Angeles.
Sheriff's deputies escorted Zamastil from a Wisconsin prison where he was serving time for murder.
"We're happy to have him back here," prosecutor Dave Whitney said. "He would have been eligible for parole next year."
When Zamastil was charged in June, Whitney would not say why the case was revived after so many years.
In 1982, Zamastil admitted the slayings in a telephone interview with a San Bernardino County detective, officials said. He was charged with the murder of Jacqueline Bradshaw two years later, but for undisclosed reasons the case was not prosecuted.
The Bradshaws were killed while hitchhiking home from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after helping a friend move. Autopsies showed they died of blunt-force injuries to the head.
Whitney said authorities were trying to determine if Zamastil might be connected to as many as five other killings in California and Arizona.
Convicted murderer William Floyd Zamastil walks off a plane at the San Bernardino International Airport in San Bernardino, California.
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SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) -- A man accused of clubbing to death a brother and sister 25 years ago in the Mojave Desert was extradited Thursday from Wisconsin to face capital murder charges.
William F. Zamastil, 51, is charged with the 1978 robbery and murders of Malcolm Bradshaw, 17, and his sister Jacqueline, 18, of Los Angeles.
Sheriff's deputies escorted Zamastil from a Wisconsin prison where he was serving time for murder.
"We're happy to have him back here," prosecutor Dave Whitney said. "He would have been eligible for parole next year."
When Zamastil was charged in June, Whitney would not say why the case was revived after so many years.
In 1982, Zamastil admitted the slayings in a telephone interview with a San Bernardino County detective, officials said. He was charged with the murder of Jacqueline Bradshaw two years later, but for undisclosed reasons the case was not prosecuted.
The Bradshaws were killed while hitchhiking home from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after helping a friend move. Autopsies showed they died of blunt-force injuries to the head.
Whitney said authorities were trying to determine if Zamastil might be connected to as many as five other killings in California and Arizona.
