Bautista Murders
On September 6 or 7, 1984, a personal tragedy struck Nash. A former lover of his, Maureen Bautista, and her son Telesforo were stabbed to death. Hells Angels biker Robert Frederick Garceau was convicted of these murders and sentenced to death. Newspaper accounts of the crime mentioned that Telesforo was actually a son of Nash.
Garceau was turned in to the police after he murdered Greg Rambo, who had helped him dispose of the bodies of the Bautistas. Rambo's wife knew of the Bautista murders and talked to the police (under an agreement of immunity). Garceau was convicted of all three murders.
At trial, evidence was presented that Garceau murdered Ms. Bautista because she threatened to expose Garceau's drug operations to Nash. Her son was murdered because he was a witness to her murder. A lengthy court appeal was launched to vacate Garceau's death penalty, but in 1993 the California Supreme Court upheld the legality of what became known as "The Nash testimony". Garceau died in prison of natural causes in 2005.
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