Description
On February 3rd 1996 Joshua Jenkins (aged 15) killed his family - sister Megan, mother Alene, father George, grandmother Lynn, and grandfather Bill in a house in Vista CA. He then set fire to the house and fled the scene. He was arrested a few hours later in the early morning of February 4th 1996. He eventually confessed to the murders on April 16th 1997 – various hearings and sentencing followed
Reports of the house fire before the murders were discovered. The fire was on "Bronze Way" in Vista and before the bodies were found was simply reported as a house fire (Feb 3rd/4th1996)
Reports of the killings and Joshua's arrest (Feb 3rd/4th1996)
The proceedings between the arrest and the guilty plea Feb 14th 1996 when Jenkins pleaded not guilty by way of insanity and April 8th 1996 when a
hearing at San Diego County Juvenile Court decided he should be tried as an adult
Reporting Joshua Jenkins changing his plea to guilty (April 16th 1997)
Reports from the 'sanity' phase of the trial - at San Diego Superior Court. April 29th 1997 where jurors were shown a video of Josh describing the killings and May 30th 1997 where the jury found him to be sane on four counts of murder)
Any coverage of the family's funeral (sometime in early Feb 1996)
