Man Killed in Crash Had Stabbed Parents in 1989
The driver of a van that crashed into a Bay Bridge toll plaza building -- killing himself and a friend -- stabbed his parents to death in 1989, authorities said.
Artists Ronald Wade McClave, 39, of Oakland and Mildred Harris, 71, of Emeryville died Saturday in the accident. They were on their way to an art exhibition in San Francisco, where they were to have displayed paintings.
McClave was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the stabbing deaths of his parents in San Luis Obispo. According to published news reports, McClave had been hospitalized shortly before the killings after telling doctors that his parents were vampires.
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