Mystery Location No. 97: April 22, 2018

Wow! This one was hard to find. I finally found the name of the street in a court document and when I Googled Ewell family murders and the street name, there was the house number!

This is 5663 East Park Circle Drive, Fresno, California, where three members of the Ewell family -- Dale, Glee and Tiffany -- were murdered on Easter Sunday (aka Resurrection Sunday), on April 19, 1992, after returning from their beach house. Another family member, Dana Ewell, age 21, was visiting his girlfriend's family that weekend. Her father was an FBI agent, so he had an airtight alibi. The house had been ransacked and at first, investigators thought they may have surprised a burglar. Dale Ewell had also been involved in some shady business deals and it was thought that it could have been a contract killing, or retaliation by someone who might have felt cheated.

It turned out that Dana Ewell had arranged for his friend, Joel Radovcich, to kill his family so that he could inherit several million dollars. Dana Ewell, like the Menendez brothers, was influenced by the movie, The Billionaire Boys Club, and told people that he owned the airplane business that was really owned by his father. The two friends were also suspected in the death of Austin Ewell, Dana's grandfather, who died in an explosion in Ohio in August of 1994. Austin Ewell was convinced from the beginning that Dana had something to do with the murders. Radovcich was in Ohio when the explosion occurred. Both Dana and Radovcich were tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

In Spanish, "Fresno" means "ash tree."

Governor Jerry Brown of California is known as "Governor Moonbeam."

The Ewell case was on Dominick Dunn's TV show, Power, Privilege and Justice."