Nigger Kidnaps Robs Rapes and Murders White Woman
Suspect In Brutal Culver City Murder Captured
Tip Leads Police To Their Man
by Paul J. Young, Staff Writer
CULVER CITY, Calif. — The man who Culver City police believe brutalized and murdered a 23-year-old Glendale woman after carjacking her last week has been arrested, more than 2,000 miles from the scene of the crime.
Authorities located Jason Thompson at an apartment in Saginaw, Michigan, Friday. He’s the prime suspect in the kidnapping, rape and murder of Roberta Louise Happe, whose body was found late last week in a Culver City park.
The USC graduate apparently had been carjacked, then forced to drive her assailant to an ATM machine, from which she withdrew the maximum allowable amount of money.
Less than two hours later, she was found dead.
Detectives were immediately on the trail of Thompson, a reputed gang member, whose face matched that of the man photographed by the automatic teller.
Initially, investigators thought their man was still in the local area, but learned otherwise thanks to a tip early Friday afternoon.
“We received information this afternoon that he was in Saginaw, Michigan,” Culver City Police Department spokesman Ed Henneberque told CBS 2 News Friday.
“After confirming that, we contacted the Saginaw Police Department. They went to the location, and after a brief struggle, took the suspect into custody.”
Word of the capture provided some consolation to the grieving parents of the dead young woman.
“Now, of course, we have the long haul here that we will be going through,” Edie Happe, the victim’s mother, told CBS 2 News. “But the good news is just fantastic.”
Happe said that the pain of her family’s loss is tempered somewhat by the realization that the person allegedly responsible is no longer on the street. But there’s a long way to go before the healing can begin.
“It hasn’t hit us yet,” Happe told CBS 2 News. “My husband is very, very angry – and that’s a good thing for him, because that’s the way that we all feel. I’m angry also.
“But the way that I cope with a lot of things is that I always try to look at the positive side.”
One way of doing that, she said, is refusing to lose faith.
“I’m being helped because I talk to her. I will always be in communication with my daughter.”
Los Angeles County prosecutors are concentrating on having Thompson extradited back to California.
“He will have to go to court in Michigan for an extradition hearing,” Henneberque told CBS 2 News.
Barring any unforeseen problems, the suspect should be turned over to Culver City police within days, according to Henneberque.
CBS 2 News reported that the district attorney’s office may seek the death penalty in this case.
