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Date: April 25, 2010 Victim(s): Phuong Le Location: Gateway Blvd, Fairfield

Phuong Le was initially reported missing at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, 4/25/2010. On Friday, May 15, 2010, the deceased body of Phuong Le was discovered in Napa County along Highway 121. The Fairfield Police continues to investigate Ms. Le's death as a homicide. 
If you have any information regarding Phuong Le, you are encouraged to call Fairfield Police at our Investigations Tip Line: 707.428.7345 or any of the police department phone numbers listed above.
Read the full  press release (updated 5/10/2010).

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Marcella Woolsey, age 40, was the manager of the J. Herbert Hall Jewelers store in the Solano Mall and lived alone in the residence at Cedarbrook Drive. On June 10, 1981, Ms. Woolsey returned home at 10:00 PM after a dinner with a female companion. An assailant shot at Ms. Woolsey through a kitchen window. Ms. Woolsey was shot in the head while standing in her kitchen. An unknown male called a telephone operator and said that a woman had been shot in a residence at Cedarbrook Drive. Responding officers found Ms. Woolsey on the kitchen floor and summoned medical assistance. Her wounds were fatal; she died without regaining consciousness. Her jewelry was missing from the residence. However, a partial recovery of the Ms. Woolsey's jewelry was made in August 1981 and individuals were questioned as to where and how they came into possession of the jewelry, but no arrests were made.
UPDATE: Suspect in this case and has been identified has been deceased since 1996.

Priscilla Lee Strole, age 38, was unemployed and living with her son at their residence located at the 1000 block of Buchanan Street, Fairfield. On August 31, 1983, at about 7:45 pm, her son left the residence with a friend and Ms. Strole was alone at residence. Ms. Strole spoke with a friend on the phone at about 9:00 pm. When her son returned home at 9:45 pm, he could not get into the residence, so he knocked on the door. He then walked to the rear of the residence and looked in through a window and saw his mother lying on the floor in the living room, naked. He ran to a neighbor's residence and had them call the police. Ms. Strole was deceased upon the arrival of emergency personnel. An examination revealed that Ms. Strole had been beaten about the head and died from that trauma. Ms. Strole had also engaged in sexual intercourse just prior to her death, unknown if it was consensual or if she had been raped. The suspect used several weapons from within the residence during the homicide.
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Dever was reported missing by her boyfriend from their Oakbrook Drive residence on 8-5-96. The boyfriend said Dever left the residence on 6-14-96, saying she could not take it anymore. Dever has not been seen or heard from since that time. The boyfriend also said Dever had left for periods of time before but had always returned. Investigators contacted family and friends and no one has had any contact with Dever. Investigators also conducted a nationwide search of Dever's credit and personal information with negative results. There were both prior reported and unreported domestic violence cases involving Dever and her boyfriend.
UPDATE: Dever's body was located in 1996 in a rural part of Solano County and has now been positively identified. The Solano County Sheriff's Office is continuing the investigation.
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Kathryn Vitagliano lived in the residence on Robin Drive with her two adult daughters. She was last seen alive by a neighbor around noon, on Friday 11-28-2003. One of Ms. Vitagliano's daughters returned home at 8:30 PM and found Ms. Vitagliano dead on the living room floor. She had suffered numerous stab wounds to her body and died as a result of the wounds. There were no signs of forced entry to the residence. It appeared as if Ms. Vitagliano was in the process of preparing food for Thanksgiving dinner (the next day) when she was stabbed.

On 6-12-1998 at 9:56 PM, Reginald Infante, age 14, and two friends, ages 15 and 16, were walking in the vicinity of Tanglewood Drive and Bay Tree Drive in the City of Fairfield. The three youths had just finished watching a softball game at Laurel Creek Park and were walking to the Solano Bistro on Claybank Road.

On 7-10-05 at 11:15 AM, Ryan Lumagui, age 20, was driving with his 24-year-old acquaintance in the front passenger seat in his red 1994 Cadillac DeVille. He was travelling Eastbound on Interstate 80 approaching the Airbase Parkway Off ramp.

A tan or silver colored small sized sedan was traveling along the driver's side of Lumagui's vehicle when an occupant of that vehicle fired several gunshots into Lumagui's Cadillac. The two vehicles then collided, side-by-side for a short distance. As the two vehicles separated, Lumagui's vehicle left the roadway at Airbase Parkway and crashed while exiting the off ramp. The suspect vehicle continued Eastbound on Interstate 80 at a high rate of speed. Lumagui was struck by gunfire in the head and body. He subsequently died at the University Medical Center in Sacramento. His passenger suffered a superficial gunshot wound to the face. There were no indications that the incident was provoked or that Lumagui and his passenger were specifically targeted.