On Sept. 18, 1973, drinking heavily, Parsons took a fatally high dose of morphine and died in that very room. When he arrived at the hospital early on Sept. 19, 1973, he was declared dead on arrival.

The suspect, Glenn Cox, 39, is incarcerated at Avenal State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the Long Beach Police Department said in a statement.

Ellis Handy seeks parole again for the 1974 murder and sexual assault of Tanya Gardini, a San Diego State freshman.

PEORIA — A jury on Wednesday convicted a former Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the ...