overpass. Close to midnight, the relieved hostage walked several miles to safety.
Clumsy mistakes by the trio soon led to their capture and trial. Even though they would actually serve only a little more than three years, a judge sentenced two of the men, on March 6, 1964, to life imprisonment.
On the very next day after that hearing, a woman in Flushing, Queens, New York, gave birth to a son and named him David.
Exactly fifteen years after the kidnapping date, another birth took place in Ukraine, USSR, on December 8, 1978. The mother immigrated to the United States with her young son, Mikhail Markhasev. He grew up in Orange County and drifted into a life of crime.
In mid-January 1997, nearly an hour after midnight, Markhasev and a few of his criminal associates stopped at a remote park-and-ride lot to use a pay phone for calling a drug dealer. This took place within short walking distance from the site where Sinatra Jr. had been released.
A few minutes earlier, Ennis Cosby, twenty-seven-year-old son of actor-comedian Bill Cosby, while driving north along the I-405, near Mulholland Drive, felt the thumping of a flat tire on his Mercedes. He exited on Skirball Center Drive, passed the park-and-ride lot, and pulled over to the shoulder next to a hillside cliff. Cosby telephoned a female friend who drove immediately to the site to aid him by aiming her headlights at his car while he changed the tire. She kept her engine running.
Shortly after her arrival, Markhasev strolled away from his companions, approached the womanâs car, and demanded money from her. Startled, she inadvertently jammed her accelerator down and barely missed Cosbyâs Mercedes as she surged up the street away from danger. Markhasev moved instantly over to Cosby and repeated his order to hand over all of his cash. Evidently dissatisfied with the response, he executed Cosby with a gunshot to the head.
The female friend later helped a police artist prepare a drawing of the man she saw. The killer is serving a life sentence in prison.
The strange linkage of events continued. Just a few years later, the boy born in New York and named David Mahler would move to the Hollywood Hills. He would occupy a home on Cole Crest Drive, less than five miles from the site where Ennis Cosby died and where Frank Sinatra Jr. was released. That hillside residence eventually became the site of yet another tragic murder.
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David âDaveâ A. Mahler, the first of three children delivered by his mother, grew up in comfortable circumstances, first in New Yorkâs Long Island and later in New Jersey. His father, a dedicated workaholic, accrued considerable wealth as a stockbroker and commodities trader, which enabled him to provide everything his wife, son, and two daughters could want. But underlying tensions resulted in familial strain. Arguments flared between the parents, as well as between father and son. Eventually the marriage ended in divorce, and Davidâs father soon remarried.
A popular website of horoscopes makes some interesting observations about David Mahler based on his birthplace, date, and time. It suggests that he is full of self-confidence and likes to dominate. He overcomes difficulties through sheer willpower. A taciturn person, he would have few close friends due to a reserved nature. Perhaps loved insufficiently by his parents, he would never get carried away by love for others. Irascible, he likes to criticize and contradict. His arguments are noisy and animated. A key weakness, the horoscope notes, is an immoderate taste for the pleasures of life, gambling, entertainment, and luxury. In relationships he likes amorous adventures, and, âof course,â is unfaithful if he has a serious relationship: He boils over, and is easily exasperated, with difficulty in controlling himself. Influenced by the opposing positions of Pluto and Mars at the time of birth, He is violent, brutal, and irascible. He succeeds in crushing
Clumsy mistakes by the trio soon led to their capture and trial. Even though they would actually serve only a little more than three years, a judge sentenced two of the men, on March 6, 1964, to life imprisonment.
On the very next day after that hearing, a woman in Flushing, Queens, New York, gave birth to a son and named him David.
Exactly fifteen years after the kidnapping date, another birth took place in Ukraine, USSR, on December 8, 1978. The mother immigrated to the United States with her young son, Mikhail Markhasev. He grew up in Orange County and drifted into a life of crime.
In mid-January 1997, nearly an hour after midnight, Markhasev and a few of his criminal associates stopped at a remote park-and-ride lot to use a pay phone for calling a drug dealer. This took place within short walking distance from the site where Sinatra Jr. had been released.
A few minutes earlier, Ennis Cosby, twenty-seven-year-old son of actor-comedian Bill Cosby, while driving north along the I-405, near Mulholland Drive, felt the thumping of a flat tire on his Mercedes. He exited on Skirball Center Drive, passed the park-and-ride lot, and pulled over to the shoulder next to a hillside cliff. Cosby telephoned a female friend who drove immediately to the site to aid him by aiming her headlights at his car while he changed the tire. She kept her engine running.
Shortly after her arrival, Markhasev strolled away from his companions, approached the womanâs car, and demanded money from her. Startled, she inadvertently jammed her accelerator down and barely missed Cosbyâs Mercedes as she surged up the street away from danger. Markhasev moved instantly over to Cosby and repeated his order to hand over all of his cash. Evidently dissatisfied with the response, he executed Cosby with a gunshot to the head.
The female friend later helped a police artist prepare a drawing of the man she saw. The killer is serving a life sentence in prison.
The strange linkage of events continued. Just a few years later, the boy born in New York and named David Mahler would move to the Hollywood Hills. He would occupy a home on Cole Crest Drive, less than five miles from the site where Ennis Cosby died and where Frank Sinatra Jr. was released. That hillside residence eventually became the site of yet another tragic murder.
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David âDaveâ A. Mahler, the first of three children delivered by his mother, grew up in comfortable circumstances, first in New Yorkâs Long Island and later in New Jersey. His father, a dedicated workaholic, accrued considerable wealth as a stockbroker and commodities trader, which enabled him to provide everything his wife, son, and two daughters could want. But underlying tensions resulted in familial strain. Arguments flared between the parents, as well as between father and son. Eventually the marriage ended in divorce, and Davidâs father soon remarried.
A popular website of horoscopes makes some interesting observations about David Mahler based on his birthplace, date, and time. It suggests that he is full of self-confidence and likes to dominate. He overcomes difficulties through sheer willpower. A taciturn person, he would have few close friends due to a reserved nature. Perhaps loved insufficiently by his parents, he would never get carried away by love for others. Irascible, he likes to criticize and contradict. His arguments are noisy and animated. A key weakness, the horoscope notes, is an immoderate taste for the pleasures of life, gambling, entertainment, and luxury. In relationships he likes amorous adventures, and, âof course,â is unfaithful if he has a serious relationship: He boils over, and is easily exasperated, with difficulty in controlling himself. Influenced by the opposing positions of Pluto and Mars at the time of birth, He is violent, brutal, and irascible. He succeeds in crushing
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