Arrest Made in Stanton Mobile Home Murders
The identity of the suspect was not immediately released.
Thursday, Jan 7, 2010 | Updated 3:00 PM PST
A day after Orange County sheriff's investigators recovered the car of one of the victims, an arrest was made in connection with the slayings of a man and woman in a Stanton mobile-home sales office nearly nine months ago, according to a sheriff's spokesman.
Golden Sun Homes owner Richard Palmer found his 42-year-old son, Mathew Francis Scott and his longtime secretary, 50-year-old Elizabeth Ann Palmer, shot to death on Feb. 2 in the company's offices on Beach Blvd.
The identity of the suspect was not immediately released. Sheriff's officials scheduled a late afternoon news conference to discuss details of the arrest.
Investigators had been looking for Palmer's 2004 GS300 Lexus since the killings. They found the car this week in the parking lot of the El Dorado Inn in Anaheim, and staked it out, hoping someone would try to drive it. The license plates had been removed and a temporary paper plate was put in its place, according to sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino.
The vehicle was towed to the county's forensics lab on Wednesday so it could be examined for evidence.
