Blues Guitarist's Daughter Killed
C O N C O R D, Calif., Aug. 10 -- The search for three missing people endedwith the discovery of their bodies in a river, bringing the deathtoll to five in a mystery that stretches from the Sacramento Deltaacross the San Francisco Bay to posh Marin County.
Authorities confirmed the worst on Wednesday for family and friendsof the daughter of blues guitarist Elvin Bishop and a missingConcord couple when they identified the dismembered bodies fishedfrom a Sacramento County river as those of Selina Bishop, 22, ofWoodacre, and Ivan Stineman, 85, and his wife, Annette, 78.
The discovery follows the murder of Bishop’s mother JenniferVillarin, 45, and her friend Joseph Gamble, 54, who were found shot todeath in Bishop’s apartment on Aug. 3.
A Case of Greed?
The suspects in the deaths of Bishop and the Stinemans areSelina Bishop’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Glenn Helzer, his brother,Justin Helzer, 28, and friend Dawn Godman, 26, prosecutors saidWednesday.
And greed and extortion are believed to be among the motives forthe murders
The Helzers and Godman, who shared a house in Concord, were heldwithout bail Wednesday on other charges.
Although Marin County Sheriff’s investigators were working withConcord police officers Wednesday, authorities have not officiallylinked the three deaths with those of Gamble and Villarin.
The first bag containing body parts was found Monday when themanager of Willow Berm Marina near Isleton spotted a duffel bag inthe Mokelumne River. A marina employee found a second bag Tuesday,which contained a human head. A third bag containing human remainswas found on Tuesday and divers recovered another five Wednesday.
Rachel Linden, who manages the marina with her husband, watchedas at least one of the bags was recovered. “It was creepy whenthey lifted up the canvas bag,” she told the San FranciscoExaminer. “You could see blood mixed with the water. We knew rightaway this was trouble.”
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