New Jurors Asked to Solve Slaying ‘Puzzle’
About four months after jurors deadlocked in the trial of a British national accused of killing a family of four, a prosecutor today asked a new panel to piece together a “jigsaw puzzle” of circumstantial evidence and convict the man.
On Aug. 31, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury deadlocked 11 to 1 in favor of convicting Harvey Rader on four counts of murder stemming from the Oct. 12, 1982, disappearance of the Saloman family of Northridge.
The bodies of Sol Saloman, his wife, Elaine, and their two children, Michalle, 15, and Mitchell, 9, have never been found.
Prosecutors contend that Rader, 49, a Reseda used-car dealer, killed the family because of a business dispute with Sol Saloman, who owned a fire extinguisher company. Rader, however, has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence.
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