Merced County Deputies Exhume 6-Year-Old's Body - CA USA

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KMPH Fox 26
Posted: May 14, 2010 10:53 PM PDT
By: Ashley Ritchie

The hole in the ground is where a tiny casket rested for the past 28 years.

Now it may be the missing link in a series of tragic events, all without closure.

"I don't know, it just seems funny that a lot of stuff that seems suspicious keeps happening," Lorin Morris said.

Like many Merced residents, Morris knows all about former RTS Towing owner Randal Wright and the devastation that's surrounded him.

"There is a common denominator. And I think it's pretty obvious all the numerators are gone," Merced County Sheriff Mark Pazin said.

It began in 1982, Wright's 6-year-old step-son Aaron drowns in the pool of a neighbor's home under Wright's care.

The drowning was ruled accidental.

Then, in December 1993, Steven Lombard and Paul Armstrong, both tow truck drivers who worked for Wright and had filed workers compensation claims against the company, vanished.

The case is now considered a double-homicide.

And then, in February 2009, Wright's wife, Karen, disappeared while vacationing in Mexico in the midst of the couple's divorce proceedings.

Detectives ruled the case a homicide last September.

"It seems like everybody that he comes in contact with is gone," Pazin said.

On Thursday, detectives exhumed the body of Wright's step-son.

"We're going to do everything within our power to identify anything that would link Aaron's death to another," Pazin said.

And again, like many of his fellow neighbors, Lorin Morris doesn't really know what happened to all of those people either.

But he knows one thing for certain.

"I don't know if it's a serial killer, but some killer," Morris said.

On separate charges, Wright is supposed to report to the Merced County Jail next month to serve a six-month sentence for car theft.

But he's requested an extension for when he has to report.

In August, Wright also pleaded "no contest" to felony embezzlement charges.

He remains free on bail.

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