No Link Found Between Cases in Two States

Police in Arizona have ruled out any connection between the kidnap-slayings of women from Huntington Beach and Redlands and the disappearance of a woman in Bullhead City, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

Bullhead City detectives began looking for similarities after they were notified of the Nov. 14 arrests of James Gregory Marlow, 30, and his companion, Cynthia Lynn Coffman, 24, Bullhead City Detective Robin Holmes said.

“But after investigating, we have no connection between the two, at least that we can find right now,” Holmes said.

Marlow and Coffman were not in the area at the time that Pamela Joyce Simmonds, 35, disappeared Oct. 28 from Bullhead City, another police spokesman said.

Marlow and Coffman appeared in Redlands Municipal Court Wednesday. Judge John Arden postponed their pretrial hearing to Jan. 15. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Jan. 16.

Both have been arraigned on murder charges stemming from the Nov. 7 disappearance of Corinna D. Novis, 20, of Redlands. Miss Novis’ body was found bound and gagged Nov. 15 in a Fontana-area vineyard.

The couple have pleaded innocent.

Marlow and Coffman also are suspects in the kidnap-slaying of Lynel Murray, 19, of Huntington Beach. Her body was found Nov. 13, a day after she was reported missing from a Huntington Beach dry cleaning store where she worked.