Police still seek clues in couple’s slaying

Eron Ben-Yehuda

Investigators have made no breakthroughs in the mysterious deaths of a

Huntington Beach couple found in their car on a desolate South County

road Nov. 20, an Orange County sheriff’s spokesman said.

The question of why Kenneth C. Stahl, 57, and his wife Carolyn

Oppy-Stahl, 44, were gunned down continues to hang over mourning family

members and friends as they prepare for a public memorial service

scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, 600

St. Andrews Road, Newport Beach.

Police are exploring all theories including that the couple -- he, an

anesthesiologist, she, an optometrist -- were victims of a carjacking,

road rage or a random shooting.

A security guard found them slumped over in their 1996 Dodge Stratus

parked along Ortega Highway, about nine miles east of San Juan

Capistrano. The engine was running and the headlights were on. Numerous

gunshots had shattered the driver’s side window.

On their last night together, they had celebrated Oppy-Stahl’s 44th

birthday.

Anyone with information is urged to call the Sheriff’s Department at

(714) 647-7055 or after hours at (714) 628-7170.