A: A Sacramento County jury cleared Mary Louise Summers of criminal responsibility in the Aug. 15, 1986 crash in which two teenagers were killed and one was left paralyzed.

Summers was the only adult in the pickup truck driven by a drunken and unlicensed 16-year-old boy. But, according to stories in The Bee, the jury concluded that Summers was not aware of the driver's state of intoxication when she got in the truck with him and four other teenagers.

She was acquitted of two counts of aiding and abetting vehicular manslaughter and two counts of aiding and abetting a drunken driver.

Summers and her daughter, Debbie, were riding in the cab of the pickup with the driver, Matt Paisley, when it swerved across Highway 16 and overturned, spilling Michael Leland Horrell, Barry Leroy Fitts and Jennifer MacMonagle from the bed of the vehicle. Fitts was pronounced dead at the scene and Horrell died later at a hospital.

MacMonagle was left paralyzed and became active with the Friday Night Live organization as a speaker at student assemblies.

Juvenile court charges of manslaughter were filed and sustained against Paisley.

But testimony at trial suggested that most of Paisley's drinking was done away from the Summers' apartment. Other occupants of the vehicle testified that they did not know Paisley was under the influence and had no reservations about riding with him at the wheel.

A: Anthony Michael Vigil, 47, remains in Sacramento County Jail awaiting trial on charges of murder and assault with a deadly weapon in the shooting death of Michael Paul Gonzales, 26, outside a Gold River business.

Vigil's next court appearance is scheduled for May 8.

He was arrested following the shooting, which occurred shortly after 10 p.m. Oct. 6.

According to stories in The Bee, the California Highway Patrol dispatch center received an emergency call from a man on a cell phone who told the dispatcher there were trespassers at his business in the 11300 block of Amalgam Way, an industrial area along Highway 50 near Sunrise Boulevard.

Scramento County sheriff's officials said a law enforcement helicopter spotted a body on the ground and deputies who arrived moments later found Gonzales, who had been killed by a shotgun blast. His body was outside in a driveway that runs from the street between two businesses.

Vigil was standing nearby, and a shotgun was on the ground at his side, sheriff's officials said.

A: Marina A. Oania, 59, died in what Placer County sheriff's investigators said was an apparent murder-suicide at a private care facility just outside the Roseville city limits.

Killed along with Oania was Orlando Garces Hernando, 61.

According to a story in The Bee, both lived at the home in the 3100 block of Spahn Ranch Road, near south Cirby Way and Old Auburn Road.

Detectives said it appeared the two had argued and that Hernando shot Oania before turning the gun on himself about 7:40 on a Sunday morning.

Four other people were in the home, which was used as a care facility for the elderly, and they contacted authorities after the shooting.

A: Richard W. Keenan of Carmichael pleaded guilty to gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated in the deaths of Thaddeus C. Czuprynski III, 19, of Placerville and Marsha Runyon, 19, of Shingle Springs.

He was sentenced in December 2000 to 8 years in state prison.

The fatal crash occurred Sept. 23, 1999. According to stories in The Bee, Keenan, then 21, was legally drunk with a blood-alcohol reading of 0.085 and speeding at 74 mph when he lost control of his 19995 Lexus on rural White Rock Road near the Sacramento-El Dorado county line. The car flipped, throwing both Czuprynski and Runyon from the vehicle.

Five people were in the four-passenger car with three working seat belts, according to court evidence. Czuprynski and Runyon were sitting next to each other in a rear passenger seat. Keenan and two other passengers suffered minor injuries.

The prosecutor said that after the crash, Keenan and another passenger in the car concealed alcohol and marijuana before officers arrived.

A: You may be referring to Sandra Dixon.

A brief item in The Bee in October 1990 reported that Dixon, 36, died in a traffic accident on Freeport Boulevard near 38th Avenue.

Police reports indicated the collision occurred at 6:40 a.m. when Dixon made a left turn from Freeport Boulevard west onto 38th Avenue in her 1988 Toyota Corolla. Her vehicle was struck broadside by a 1981 Mercury southbound on Freeport Boulevard.

A: In late December 1990, Craig Alan Trimble, a robbery detective and 19-year veteran of the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department robbed a Raley's supermarket at Fair Oaks Boulevard and Walnut Ave. in Carmichael.

He took six people hostage, then shot himself in the head to avoid capture.

According to accounts in The Bee, the 44-year-old Trimble apparently entered the store just before closing on a Saturday night, waited in a store cooler, then sneaked out after closing and took six employees hostage.

He tied them up and held them captive from midnight Saturday until 4 a.m. Sunday. When an employee with access to the store's safe arrived, Trimble fled with an undisclosed amount of money.

Two sheriff's deputies across the street on a call at another market saw Trimble emerge from the Raley's store, dressed in a dark ski mask and dark clothes. When they attempted to pull him over four blocks away, instead of stopping the car, Trimble put a .357-caliber handgun under his chin and shot himself. He was identified through a fingerprint analysis.

Sheriff's officials said an investigation following Trimble's death indicated that he had financial problems and was living far beyond his means.

A: A Sacramento County jury convicted Patthana Sam Vannalee of attempted murder, mayhem and assault with a deadly weapon in the 2008 knife attack on his 16-year-old sister.

According to a story in The Bee, Vannalee, who was 19 at the time, attacked his sister in her bedroom shortly after midnight on a Saturday night.

Sacramento police officers found the girl in critical condition with wounds to her face, eyes and back of the neck. They said Vannalee attacked "viciously and without provocation," then fled.

He was sentenced in November 2010 to 25 years in state prison, according to Sacramento Superior Court online records, and is incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.

A: Richard Paul Pinola, Gregory Lee Rand and Dwayne Thomas DeLuna remain in state prison for the Oct. 23, 1994 shooting death of 19-year-old David Lamburth, a kitchen manager at Bistro Pete's restaurant in Antelope.

All three were 17 years old at the time of the shooting but were tried as adults.

According to accounts in The Bee, Pinola was working at Bistro Pete's on the night of the fatal shooting and left the back door open for DeLuna and Rand, who came into the restaurant masked and armed.

While Rand held a gun on an employee who was stuffing a bag with the restaurant's cash receipts, DeLuna tried to herd employees into a walk-in freezer. Lamburth was shot in the chest as he held his hands above his head.

DeLuna testified that the gun accidentally went off in the commotion. A jury convicted him of murder and robbery, and he was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole. Now 35, DeLuna is in High Desert State Prison in Susanville.

Pinola, now 35, also was convicted by a jury of murder and robbery, and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. He is incarcerated at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison in Blythe.

Rand, now 34, pleaded guilty to murder and robbery and is in California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville.

A: The death of 19-year-old Ginger Lee Jordan remains unsolved.

According to stories in The Bee, the Fair Oaks woman's body was pulled out of the Sacramento River on Dec. 13, 1987 by a boater clearing debris from around his craft in the 4400 block of Broadway.

Jordan disappeared Nov. 16 after leaving her boyfriend's home on Butterworth Avenue. Her car was found stripped and on fire on Interstate 80 near Winters Street two days later.

A: Nick Nathaniel "Nate" Morelos was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison for the 1991 stabbing death of of 16-year-old Shawn Cassinelli, a popular San Juan High School athlete.

Morelos, now 38 years old, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is incarcerated at California State Prison, Solano.

The assault occurred early on the morning of July 20, 1991 as Cassinelli was walking along a dark stretch of Old Auburn Road, according to accounts in The Bee. One of Cassinelli's two companions threw a bottle into the road in front of a passing car.

Morelos, a passenger in the vehicle, leaped out and charged the three pedestrians, plunging a 4-inch knife so forcefully into Cassinelli's stomach that it nicked the backbone.

At the time of Morelos' arrest, officers said several teenagers knew the killer's identity, but a "code of silence" protected Morelos from investigators until eight weeks after the slaying, when detectives confronted a girl who had bragged at a party that she knew who was responsible.

Richard Avalos was found guilty of being an accessory to murder by deliberately misleading sheriff's detectives investigating the killing. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

Three other people, Marcella Gomez and two juveniles, received 90-day sentences after pleading guilty to accessory charges.

A: In May 2011, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully filed 34 charges against former Sacramento Police Officer Brandon Mullock, accusing him of lying in police reports, in hearings and on driver's license suspension forms.

Of the 34 charges, 24 allege that Mullock falsified his reports and 10 allege perjury.

According to Sacramento Superior Court online records, he is scheduled for a preliminary hearing May 1.

Mullock's troubles began in January 2010, when he was accused of brandishing a gun during an off-duty incident and placed on administrative leave from the department, according to accounts in The Bee. He pleaded to a misdemeanor charge in that case.

While Mullock was on administrative leave, a deputy district attorney reviewing a DUI case noticed discrepancies between Mullock's police report and footage from his patrol cruise's in-car camera.

That led police officials and prosecutors to review cases in which Mullock was the primary officer or a key witness.

Mullock resigned from the department in August 2010, and in September, Scully announced that her office had to dismiss 79 cases because of questions about Mullock's credibility.

A: Michelle Marie Perez of Sacramento died in a single-vehicle accident in October 2006.

According to an account in The Bee, Perez, 20, was traveling west on the Arden-Garden Connector when she lost control of her car and struck a light pole. She died instantly.

Police said speed may have contributed to the crash.