Post by faser41 on Aug 25, 2020 19:51:21 GMT
Wow!
What a Homecoming! Fellow Alum JJD returns to Sac State to be sentenced and face his victims. The same campus he, his wife and some of the victims attended and or graduated from. Not to mention numerous of the officers who investigated him back in the day also attended that same university and the same program. I am sure he sat in the same class in the Criminal Justice program and possibly like most vets, he sat in the back of the class. The Ballroom has been refurbished since I went there and up to a few years ago, the Criminal Justice building (Social Science) was the oldest building on campus. In fact, that building was a former Naval Communications facility that became surplus in the early 1950’s.
The sentencing day was a homecoming in so many ways. The original Ballroom back in the late fifties and early sixties was the site of so many gala events. The college (originally Sacramento State College) was founded by Charles M. Goethe and I urge many to research him because his beliefs were in part based on early or agreed with early criminology theories. Goethe died in 1966 and for the last years of his life lived as a single, eccentric millionaire who counted Governor Edmund (Pat) Brown as among his friends. He lived on (Poverty Ridge) a Hill neighborhood on the south sector of Sacramento’s Midtown. We loved going to his mansion on Halloween in the early 1960’s because he gave money, candied apples and had huge pumpkins arrayed in the front of his mansion. Mr. Goethe was an unabashedly upfront eugenicist who never really extolled any supremacy of the white race but made specific studies of people of color and reasoned their natural disposition toward, disease, dysfunction, crime and violence were inherited. He gave nearly his entire fortune to Sacramento State and his other ventures in horticulture, National Parks were appreciated until his racial views were uncovered.
He got culture cancelled about 20 years ago.
So ironic that a pointed head serial killer from European ancestry would plead guilty in the very same ballroom Mr. Goethe had feted his elite friends. I find it quite eerie that I may have sat in the same seat as JJD or sat on the same bench studying prints in the lab as this killer did. Unlike Goethe, my family lost everything in the Great Depression of the late twenties and never fully recovered. Now, on a Friday afternoon in August of 2020, at arguably one of the more beautiful California State Universities, in a leafy campus next to a river, this killer is sentenced to prison and leaving this campus one more time. Never a homecoming like this before!
