San Diego
Police have arrested two men in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 30-year-old woman whose body was found last week on the mud flats of the San Diego River bottom near Old Town.
James Franklin Risner and Charles Kevin Rickard, both 21-year-old transients, were arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of killing Amanda Olmstead, said Lt. Dan Berglund of the San Diego Police Department.
Olmstead, a transient, was found about 9:15 a.m. Aug. 13 below the Interstate 5 bridges, Berglund said. She had been stabbed in the abdomen and the back of the neck, and was bludgeoned with what may have been a rock, Berglund said.
The motive for the killing appeared to be drug-related, Berglund said.
The pair was arrested about 6 p.m. Wednesday by the river, near the 4800 block of Friars Road, Berglund said. He would not give details about how detectives suspected the men.
Risner and Rickard were booked into County Jail downtown and are scheduled to be arraigned Monday, a jail spokeswoman said.
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