Inmate accused of 3rd slaying

A 67-year-old man already serving life sentences for two other murders has been linked by DNA evidence to a previously unsolved third killing, Orange County prosecutors said.

David Richard Campbell was charged Wednesday with one felony count of special circumstances murder with a sentencing enhancement for multiple murders and the personal use of a firearm, according to Orange County prosecutors.

Campbell is already serving a life sentence for the 1981 Halloween murder of his friend William Kimble Raber of Buena Park, whose headless torso was found in Riverside County.

On Jan. 2, 1982, Campbell met with his friend Frank “Bart” Marshall, who said that Raber had not been seen in awhile, according to Orange County prosecutors.

Campbell became paranoid that Marshall knew about the Raber murder and shot the 26-year-old man in the head, prosecutors said. Marshall’s body was then dismembered and discarded near Big Bear. His remains, discovered in 1985, were unidentified for more than 27 years.

The Fullerton Police Department was able to link Campbell to the murder through DNA technology, which was not available to investigators at the time the crime took place.

Campbell is in custody in Salinas Valley State Prison in Soledad, but he will be brought to Orange County to face the charge.