Sanity Hearing for Killer of 7 Delayed
After prosecutors raised new allegations, a judge Friday postponed the sanity hearing for the man who killed seven people at Cal State Fullerton in 1976.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Dan Wagner submitted tapes of recent interviews with Bonnie Sykes, the ex-wife of killer Edward Allaway, in which she alleges rape and domestic abuse by her husband. Wagner did not elaborate or say how the claims might be relevant to Allaway’s condition today. Allaway, who was found to be insane at the time of the killings, could be freed if he is judged to be sane.
Allaway’s hearing was to have begun Oct. 9.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Frank Fasel reset the date to Nov. 5, Wagner said, to give Allaway’s attorneys more time to review the new allegations.
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