Cousins enter pleas in 1973 shotgun slayings of 2 girls
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Two men charged with murder in the 1973 shotgun slayings of two young girls entered pleas to murder charges in Yuba County court on Tuesday, Deputy Yuba County District Attorney John Vacek said.
Larry Don Patterson pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder Tuesday, and his cousin, William Lloyd Harbour, pleaded no contest to the same charges.
The two were charged in September with six counts each in the killings of 12-year-old Valerie Janice Lane and 13-year-old Doris Karen Derryberry in a long-stalled cold case.