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- Man Vows Suicide, Disappears
Sheriff’s deputies late yesterday cancelled a search after three days of looking for a Los Angeles man who threatened suicide and apparently disappeared into the hills near Pinetree tract.
The search for James Freddy Blackburn, 48, started late Tuesday after his friend, Raymond Byrne, 45, reported him missing, Blackburn’s 1971 blue Mercury was found on Land Station Road, just off Soledad Canyon Road, Tuesday night.
Sgt. William Violette, the man in charge of search and rescue operations from the Santa Clarita Valley sheriff’s station, said Blackburn left a note saying he was going far back into the hills and would then kill himself.
There was a quick search Tuesday before dark and two helicopters searched all Wednesday. Fog eliminated the use of helicopters yesterday but about 50 men, 30 of them on horseback, combed the area.
“There was an awful lot of country to search but we covered it all and didn’t find him,” Violette said.
The Signal, Newhall, California. Friday, 14 Dec 1973, page 1.
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- Death Ruled Accidental
[text about death of Barney Simmons in the parking lot of The Drifters bar]
In another homicide investigation in Santa Clara Valley, homicide officers said they are satisfied that the death of James Blackburn was a suicide.
The bones of Blackburn, a 48-year-old Los Angeles man, were found November 7 near the Pinetree tract. He vanished into that area nearly two years ago, in December 1973, after leaving a suicide note.
The Signal, Newhall, California. Monday 17 November 1975, page 1.
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