“He seemed to be a very shy kind of kid, he didn’t have very many friends, but I figured it to be that he didn’t dress nicely, he didn’t have a lot of money,” she said. Her parents said she was too young to date, but she flirted with him and soon they were “dating” - which mostly meant hanging out together at school.
Mia Chatman was an Oakland Technical High School sophomore in 1987 when she noticed a shy, good-looking senior named Charles Stevens. He’s on death row, but none of them are completely free. All these years later, the ripples keep buffeting those around him. So another set of friends and family are joining the sad fraternity of those carrying the taint of Stevens’ crimes in their minds and hearts everyday.
Police are still gathering other evidence charges haven’t been filed yet, but they’re confident enough to say definitively that it was Stevens’ dark work. The case remained unsolved until DNA found at the scene recently matched up with Stevens’. Now, Oakland Police say Stevens is responsible for another murder -the April 1989 stabbing of Brenda Belvins, 26, whose body was found on theporch of a house on 54th Street in North Oakland. But Stevens, now 38, still has another, separate court case pending and has not yet asked federal courts to intervene.
FREEWAY KILLER VICTIMS SERIES
That revelation came 14 years ago, and 18 years now have passed since Charles Arnett Stevens killed four people and tried to kill six more in a three-month series of random shootings on or near Interstate 580 in Oakland.Ĭalifornia’s Supreme Court upheld his conviction and death sentence June 4.
FREEWAY KILLER VICTIMS SERIAL
A Serial Killer’s Legacy – East Bay Times
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