A: The body 18-year-old Angela Dvorsky was found May 1, 1998 floating in the American River near the Watt Avenue bridge. Sheriff's officials said she had been stabbed numerous times in the upper torso and was believed to have been in the water for about two weeks.

According to stories in The Bee, her parents said she had been a straight-A student, but they started noticing signs of drug use and the next thing they knew she was pregnant.

Dvorsky was described as a chronic runaway who often hung out on Croetto Way in Rancho Cordova. Her parents said she survived on the streets by running with robbery gangs.

Friends said they had last talked to her in mid-March 1998. They said she was holed up in a motel and seemed paranoid over the phone. She told them she had been involved in a robbery where somebody got hurt and that her "crew" was concerned about her being a witness.

Dvorsky died leaving a 2-year-old son.

A: In answer to Question No. 2: Two men were sentenced to prison for the Dec. 30, 1986, beating death of 20-year-old Navy electronics technician Dan W. Lacy Jr.

Reyes Rios, the 17-year-old who beat Lacy with a baseball bat, was convicted of second-degree murder. His co-defendant, Ok Chul Shin, 20, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

According to stories in The Bee, Lacy was on Christmas leave from the Navy at the time of his death.

He and a friend in a pickup truck were chased by a carload of men after an angry confrontation outside the Confetti night club. When their pickup became disabled at the end of a dead-end street,they tried flee from their pursuers on foot. The friend escaped after being roughed up by a couple of the young men.

Family members found Lacy's body 37 hours later in a drainage canal that runs under Hurley Way.

Shin was not involved in the original confrontation but arrived later and gave Rios and his companions a ride back to the disabled pickup to steal stereo equipment. There they again spotted Lacy and chased him into Chicken Ranch Slough, where, Shin testified, two other young men appeared to kick him as he lay face-down in the sand of the canal. Rios then arrived with a bat and started taking swings at Lacy's head.

Rios was sentenced to 16 years to life in prison, and Shin received and 11-year sentence. Neither appears in an online roster of current California prison inmates.

A: A 17-year-old Woodland girl was sentenced to nearly three years in the custody of the California Youth Authority as the driver of the car that killed 20-year-old Jillian Kelley and injured 19-year-old Alison Murray.

Her mother, Lidia Ulloa, was sentenced to three years in state prison for covering up the March 2000 hit-and-run accident.

According to stories in The Bee, the teenager was convicted of vehicular manslaughter and three other felonies. She was not named in stories because of her age. Her mother pleaded no contest to being an accessory to the hit-and-run accident.

The accident occurred the night of March 12, 2000 as the teenager was driving home from work and her car veered to the right, striking Kelley and Murray as they walked in the bike lane in a residential street in Woodland.

Instead of stopping to help, the girl drove home. Her mother hid the white SUV in the family garage for five days before driving it to the Palm Springs area for repairs.

Woodland authorities said that if the teenager had pulled over to help, called for an ambulance or returned to the scene of the accident,the maximum penalty probably would have been six months in jail with a possibility of no jail time.

A: Jeffrey Gerald Jones, a former mental patient, was sentenced to death in 1989 for a series of hammer attacks in public restrooms that killed two men and gravely injured another in Sacramento in early 1985.

He also was sentenced in Yolo County to life without possibility of parole for the 1985 hammer slaying of a UC Davis professor. According to stories in The Bee, Jones pleaded guilty to murdering physics lecturer Fred G. Morris, 34, in a restroom on the U.C. Davis campus Jan. 21, 1985.

Jones received the death penalty for the fatal bludgeoning of Dr. Michael G. Corbett, 35, and Harry Dong, 47. Corbett was beaten to death Jan. 22, 1985 at the U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Dong died Jan. 28, a week after he was bludgeoned in the men's room at Sutter's Fort Park.

Another man, a former U.C. Davis medical student, John Rowland, also was brutally attacked by Jones in a restroom at the medical center, but survived.

Jones, 52, remains on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

A: According to a story in The Bee, Michael Francis Klaisle was arrested in July 2009 at a home in the 4700 block of Concordia Drive in El Dorado Hills.

Sacramento County drug task force detectives seized 47 pounds of marijuana worth and estimated $300,000. Investigators also confiscated $6,000 and impounded two vehicles.

A sheriff's spokesman said Klaisle was the head of a drug sales network that stretched across the country.

According to Sacramento County Superior Court online records, Klaisle pleaded no contest to marijuana trafficking and was sentenced to three years in state prison. His name does not appear in an online roster of current state prison inmates.

A: A Sacramento County jury found Don Cornelious Livingston guilty of first-degree murder and attempted rape in the death of Jacqueline Madero of Carmichael. He was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.

According to stories in The Bee, Madero, 46, a registered nurse, was strangled and suffocated in her bed about 2 a.m. June 12, 1995. Madero's 14-year-old son testified during the trial that he found Livingston, 18, on top of his mother, whose nightgown was pulled over her head. Her purse lay nearby, it's contents spilled over the floor.

The prosecutor argued that Livingston had gone to the house to visit Madero's son, who wasn't home, and that when he found the woman alone, he robbed and strangled her.

Livingston, now 34, is incarcerated at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione.

A: Sacramento County sheriff's spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos said a deputy spotted two people in a stolen vehicle at Bannister Park in Fair Oaks, and when the deputy attempted to contact them, they ran off.

The man jumped off the bluffs into the American River but was able to swim to shore, where he was taken into custody. The woman was not located.

Ramos said the man sustained cuts and scrapes, and was suffering from other medical issues, which required hospitalization. He will be booked into jail upon release from the hospital. His name has not been released pending booking.

Ramos said drug paraphernalia was found in the vehicle, which had been reported stolen from the Rosemont area. He said the man was in the driver's seat when the deputy spotted him.

The Sacramento Waldorf School on Bannister Road was under lockdown for a time during the search.

A: According to an online roster of inmates, Laurence Eugene Lapoint, 67, is at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison, Corcoran.

He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the murder of Ray Lockridge, 40, a Coker-Ewing vice president, during a 1985 rifle and shotgun attack on the Roseville real estate office. Lockridge died in his office of gunshot wounds while Lapoint held hostage another Coker-Ewing employee, who was wounded in the foot.

Lapoint surrendered to the California Highway Patrol about an hour after the shooting began.

According to stories in The Bee, the fatal shooting stemmed from Lapoint's feud with the firm over alleged deficiencies in a south Roseville home that his ex-wife had purchased from Coker-Ewing. Although divorced from his wife, Lapoint still lived in the home.

A: According to a story in The Bee, Mareko Tuisea was arrested in June 2007 in connection with the fatal beating of Homchanch Saykosy, 56, in Del Paso Heights.

Police said evidence found at the scene linked Tuisea to the incident.

According to Sacramento County Superior Court online records, Tuisea pleaded no contest to murder and was sentenced in January 2008 to 15 years to life in prison.

Now 31 years old, he is incarcerated at Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad.

A: Thomas Calvin Rambo, 20, was shot during an argument in the parking lot of Big Shot Billiards at 1000 Melody Lane in Roseville in the early morning hours of Oct. 1, 1994.

According to stories in The Bee, Rambo, who was described as a combative youth, had been ejected from Big Shot Billiards for fighting, and was fatally shot in a confrontation with 23-year-old Martin Vincent Harris.

According to testimony during Harris' trial, a friend of Harris was involved in a fight with several of Rambo's friends when Harris pulled a gun from under the seat of his vehicle and pointed it at Rambo, ordering everyone to back off.

Rambo, shirtless and unarmed, with both arms outstretched, challenged Harris, saying, "What are you going to do? Shoot me?"

Harris fired and the bullet struck Rambo in the heart. Harris then fled with three friends and led police on a 25-mile chase.

Harris claimed he shot Rambo in self-defense, and a Placer County jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced in 1995 to 16 years and eight months in state prison for killing Rambo, as well as evading arrest and for various drug charges to which he had pleaded guilty before the trial.

An online roster of inmates indicates that Harris is no longer in prison.

A: Pal Singh Chima was found guilty of first-degree murder in the May 2, 1992, shooting death of 19-year-old Alcides Sousa DeMelo.

According to stories in The Bee, Chima believed DeMelo was involved in the hit-and-run death of his son.

Jessy Chima survived the rollover crash of his small pickup truck on Jan. 16, 1992, but was killed moments later by a hit-and-run driver on Highway 99 south of Elk Grove, as he tried to cross the northbound lanes.

The prosecutor said the elder Chima became obsessed with his son's death and lured DeMelo to his home to confront him about what he believed was DeMelo's role in Jessy Chima's death.

Pal Singh Chima said during the trial that he shot DeMelo in self-defense after the young man attacked him and cut him with a knife. He said DeMelo came to his home angry that day because Chima had turned him in to the California Highway Patrol, which was investigating the accident. He denied that he ever thought of DeMelo as a prime suspect, only a prime witness.

DeMelo, whose family owned a dairy down the road from the Chimas' house, had been at the accident scene that night, but investigations by the CHP and an investigator hired by Chima cleared DeMelo of any involvement.

Pal Singh Chima was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Now 67 years old, he is at California State Prison, Solano, in Vacaville.

A: Patrick Gregory Baccari, 32, is incarcerated at Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy.

Last fall, the Placer County District Attorney's Office was prosecuting Baccari, a Roseville resident, for the 2009 rape of a woman in her late 20s in Rocklin. According to a story in The Bee, Baccari was out on $50,000 bail when he went on the run Oct. 17.

He originally was arrested in 2009 and was out on bail pending trial. When he failed to return to court during the trial, a warrant was issued for his arrest and the trial continued without him.

He was convicted of four felony charges Oct. 19. On Oct. 28, the FBI arrested Baccari in New York City and he was subsequently returned to California.