The Region - News from Feb. 27, 1987
The confession by an Oceano man that he killed a Nipomo woman and her three young children will be admitted as evidence in his trial, Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Thomas Adams ruled. The trial of Richard A. Benson, 39, was moved from San Luis Obispo County because of publicity about the confession and about Benson’s prior convictions for kidnaping, child molestation and burglary. The bodies of Laura Camargo, 24, her son, Sterling, 2, and daughters Stephanie, 4, and Shawna, 3, were found in her burned home Jan. 5, 1986. The girls allegedly had been sexually molested.
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