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William Floyd
ZAMASTIL
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics:
Rape - Robbery
Number of victims: 3 +
Date of murders: 1978
Date of birth: 1952
Victims profile: Female victim /
Jacqueline Bradshaw, 18, and her brother, Malcolm, 17
Method of murder:
??? /
Beating
Location: Wisconsin/California, USA
Status:
Sentenced to two terms of 25 years to life
on June 1, 2004
Killer of teens in
1978 given 2 life sentences
Los
Angeles Daily News
June 2, 2004
SAN BERNARDINO - The one memory that
has played itself over and over again in Caroline
Zeoli's mind is how her children were killed in cold
blood by a man named William Floyd
Zamastil.
Zamastil, 52, was sentenced
Tuesday to two terms of 25 years to life for the
bludgeoning deaths of Jacqueline Bradshaw, 18, and her
17-year-old brother, Malcolm. The Canoga Park siblings
were hitchhiking home from Las Vegas when Zamastil
picked them up at a Barstow gas station on Feb. 27,
1978, the last time they were ever seen alive.
Convicted killer
pleads guilty to murdering 2 Valley teens
Los
Angeles Daily News
May
29, 2004
SAN BERNARDINO - Convicted killer
William Floyd Zamastil pleaded guilty
on Friday to the February 1978 bludgeoning murders of a
Canoga Park brother and sister near Barstow.
Zamastil, 52, will avoid the
death penalty and serve 25 years to life in prison for
the beating deaths of Jacqueline Bradshaw, 18, and her
brother Malcolm, 17. The murder sentence will run
concurrently with a 25 years to life sentence
Zamastil is serving in Wisconsin for rape and murder
in that state.
The plea bargain struck with county
prosecutors closes the 26- year-old murder case 13
months after it was reopened by the Sheriff's Department. Zamastil likely will never see the inside of a
California prison.
Wisconsin killer
extradited to California
Saturday, September 20, 2003 - CNN.com
SAN BERNARDINO, California (AP) -- A
man accused of clubbing to death a brother and sister 25
years ago in the Mojave Desert was extradited Thursday
from Wisconsin to face capital murder charges.
William F. Zamastil, 51, is charged
with the 1978 robbery and murders of Malcolm Bradshaw,
17, and his sister Jacqueline, 18, of Los Angeles.
Sheriff's deputies escorted Zamastil
from a Wisconsin prison where he was serving time for
murder.
"We're happy to have him back here,"
prosecutor Dave Whitney said. "He would have been
eligible for parole next year."
When Zamastil was charged in June,
Whitney would not say why the case was revived after so
many years.
In 1982, Zamastil admitted the
slayings in a telephone interview with a San Bernardino
County detective, officials said. He was charged with
the murder of Jacqueline Bradshaw two years later, but
for undisclosed reasons the case was not prosecuted.
The Bradshaws were killed while
hitchhiking home from Las Vegas to Los Angeles after
helping a friend move. Autopsies showed they died of
blunt-force injuries to the head.
Whitney said authorities were trying
to determine if Zamastil might be connected to as many
as five other killings in California and Arizona.
William Floyd Zamastil, age 26
County and State: San Bernardino, California
Date
of Crime: 2/27/78
Summary of facts of the crime, and case resolution:
Zamastil picked up two teenage hitchhikers – a brother
and sister – then raped, tortured and bludgeoned them to
death. He pleaded guilty to two sentences of from 25-to-life;
he was already serving a life sentence in Wisconsin for
another murder. It was not until a police detective
dusted off the 25-year-old file on the hitchhiker
murders that Zamastil was connected to them.
Depravity
Point Total:
21
Weight=3
Additional murder
2
Sexual assault
1
Weight=2
Robbery
1
Kidnapping
3
Multiple stab/bludgeon
2
Weight=1
Prosecutorial Reasons for Not Pursuing Death
Sentence
