The Octopus Murders

 From the confrontation. One of the death threats. “Heart & kindness” lol is that what you call it - I don’t care how many brainwashed people say otherwise, I know the truth.  

 Deputy Attorney General Mike Murphy from San Diego who is prosecuting the Jimmy Hughes homicide case in Indio notified Rachel Begley on June 24th that he planned to drop charges against Hughes on July 1, the 29th anniversary of the triple homicide in which Begley's father, Ralph Boger, was murdered.  Ralph Boger, Fred Alvarez and Patty Castro were found dead on July 1, 1981 in Rancho Mirage; each had been shot execution style in the back of the head. Rachel Begley was only 13 at the time. In 1984 James "Jimmy" Hughes claimed to authorities and reporters that he was the bag-man in the murders, that he delivered the money for the hit and the Cabazon Indian tribe's administrator, John Phillip Nichols, had contracted the hit.  Hughes left the United States before he could testify and built a new life in Latin America where he has lived for 28 years. The triple homicide case had never been solved until Detective John Powers of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department took control of the cold case file on November 27, 2007, the result of Rachl Begley's determined efforts to get her father's case reopened.  Today, three years later, that case is being closed again, despite the fact that Jimmy Hughes has been in custody with special circumstances for 9 months and the self-confessed "hit-man" publicly admitted he was the perpetrator.