The backstory: Santa Cruz sheriff's deputies responded to Aptos Village Park on May 28, 1976, over reports of a dead woman. There, the body of 25-year-old Karen Percifield was found. Officials ...

A man convicted of two murders in the 1970s has been identified as the killer of a woman found dead in a Santa Cruz County park 40 ... in the death of 25-year-old Karen Percifield, but the ...