The State - News from April 26, 1988

Sheriff’s officials said they are baffled by the discovery of the bullet-riddled bodies of three teen-agers in northeastern Humboldt County. There was no indication why the three had been shot, Sheriff Dave Renner said. The victims, tentatively identified as Robert R. Robbins, 19; Leo Carter, 18, and Lynn M. Masten, 16, were last seen alive March 2 in Hoopa, a small town on the remote Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. A methamphetamine drug lab had been suspected to have a part in the killings, but no such evidence was uncovered, sources close to the sheriff’s office reported. The truck the three victims had been driving was found about 15 miles from where the badly decomposed bodies were found.