1984: Richard Farley meets Laura Black and falls in love with her. She does not feel the same. He tries to convince her that she loves him by sending her all sorts of gifts. Laura continues to ignore him so that she does not hurt his feelings. He calls her and shows up at her desk all throughout the day. He follows her after work too. He sends her letters constantly.
1985: Laura contacts her Human Resources Department to see if they can assist her with the problem with Farley. The Department demands that Farley attends counseling. He attends, but his harassment continues. His work and relations with his coworkers suffer, and he is finally fired in 1986. He continues to stalk Laura Black.
February 2, 1988: Laura Black gets a restraining order against Richard Farley. The court date is February 17th.
February 16, 1988: Richard Farley walks into ESL Inc in Sunnyvale, California and shoots and kills 7 people. Laura Black and two others are also wounded in the massacre. He surrenders after 6 hours when the negotiators promise to give him a Sub sandwich and a Pepsi. Laura stays in the hospital for almost 3 weeks. She receives a letter from prison from none other than Richard Farley.
October 1991: Richard Farley is convicted of first-degree murder. Judge Joseph Biafore sentences Farley to California’s Death Row.
2009: Richard Farley still sits on death row in San Quentin his death sentence is upheld.
The title of this post is misleading: Laura Black was stalked and wounded by Richard Farley, but she did not die.
ReplyDeleteWhere does it say Laura Black died?
ReplyDeleteJudge Franklin D. Elia issued a patently unconstitutional and overbroad restraining order with few facts and no notice and no hearing allowed. He caused a precariously balanced person to go over the border by prohibiting him attending his own college classes and being on his own college campus. Judge Elia should have been removed from the bench for gross incompetence. Instead he is an appellate judge in the Sixth Appellate District Court. Santa Clara Superior Court is known to continue to regularly issue fraudulent no notice and inflammatory restraining orders. That court will cause more deaths.
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