{"id":147946,"date":"2026-01-24T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147946\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:54:22","slug":"kosciusko-county-man-arrested-for-1975-cold-case-murder-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/147946\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosciusko County man arrested for 1975 cold case murder in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; A Kosciusko County man was arrested this week for a murder that happened in California more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to Indiana State Police, investigators were asked in 2024 by cold case detectives in San Diego to assist with a 1975 murder case. Indiana investigators helped over the next year and were able to identify 71-year-old Johnnie Ray Salisbury of Syracuse as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/suspect-in-1975-north-park-slaying-jailed-indiana\/509-822ca266-7678-422a-a68c-c383264a6d88?tbref=hp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.cbs8.com\/article\/news\/local\/suspect-in-1975-north-park-slaying-jailed-indiana\/509-822ca266-7678-422a-a68c-c383264a6d88?tbref=hp\">CBS 8 San Diego<\/a>, Salisbury allegedly killed then-34-year-old Edmund LaFave, whose lifeless body was found in a pool of blood in his bedroom on Feb. 25, 1975. CBS 8 says LaFave had been severely beaten and repeatedly stabbed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Despite an exhaustive investigation at the beginning of the case, it eventually went cold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to CBS 8, investigators identified Salisbury as LaFave\u2019s alleged killer via genetic genealogy, which combines DNA testing with analysis of family histories and other forensic evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">It\u2019s unclear at this time if there was a motive for the killing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Salisbury was taken into custody after investigators from the San Diego Police Department flew to Indiana and an arrest warrant was served on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Salisbury is being held in the Kosciusko County Jail as he awaits extradition back to California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WNDU. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) &#8211; A Kosciusko County man was arrested this week for a murder that happened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[73504,2040,7,9,8,25599,73505,5686,73503,1555,1331,74,68524,46787],"class_list":["post-147946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-73504","tag-arrested","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cold-case","tag-edmund-lafave","tag-killing","tag-kosciusko-county","tag-man","tag-murder","tag-san-diego","tag-syracuse","tag-wndu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}