Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – A Superior Court judge has ordered Marci Kitchen, 39, of Fortuna to be arraigned on May 25 for all the vehicular manslaughter charges brought against her last September in connection with the deaths of two 14-year-old girls, her daughter Kiya and her close friend Faith Tsarnas. Deputy District…
Kitchen’s son testifies his mother confessed her guilt
Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – “I did it, I did this. I killed her; I killed them both.” These are the words Jevin Kitchen testified that he heard his mother say as the two stood together grieving with his father Joseph. The three were gazing in disbelief in an Oakland hospital last July…
Adultery alleged as motive in Fortuna murder
Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – The state charges that an extramarital affair led to the gunshot murder of a Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department captain in front of his home Sept. 26, but the lone suspect pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Sept. 29. Jon David Goldberg, 36, is being held on $1 million…
Adultery alleged motive in Fortuna murder
Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – The state charges that an extramarital affair led to the gunshot murder of a Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department captain in front of his home Sept. 26, but the lone suspect pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Sept. 29. Jon David Goldberg, 36, is being held on $1 million…
Parents battle in Fortuna hit & run tragedy
Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – Compounding the despair of their teenage daughter’s July 13 hit-and-run death, divorcees Joseph and Marcia Kitchen are fighting over the custody and visitation of their 17-year-old son. They are equally embattled over the cremated remains of their 14-year-old daughter, Kiya. In court documents, Joseph Kitchen accuses his ex-wife…
CHP names ‘parties of interest’ in Fortuna fatals
Paul Mann Mad River Union Marcia Maelinda Kitchen and boyfriend Joshua Wren Pearlston have been named “parties of interest” by the California Highway Patrol in its stymied hunt for the driver responsible for the criminal hit-and-run deaths of two Fortuna teenagers on July 12. Both Kitchen, mother of Kiya Kitchen, one of the girls killed,…
Fortuna’s grief likened to Newtown’s
Paul Mann Mad River Union HYDESVILLE – At a Saturday afternoon funeral service, Pastor Michael Delamarian III of Hydesville Community Church compared the grief inflicted by the hit-and-run deaths of two teenagers near Fortuna to the misery that engulfed Newtown, Conn. in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre at Christmastime in 2012.…
Fortuna’s grief likened to Newtown’s
Paul Mann Mad River Union HYDESVILLE – At a Saturday afternoon funeral service, Pastor Michael Delamarian III of Hydesville Community Church compared the grief inflicted by the hit-and-run deaths of two teenagers near Fortuna to the misery that engulfed Newtown, Conn. in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre at Christmastime in 2012.…
Fortuna Lad Arrested After Some Plaza Punchy-Face – May 14, 2012
The officers located a 22-year-old male adult injured at the scene. The man had substantial facial injuries as a result of the fight and was transported to Mad River Community Hospital for treatment.