Nearly 31 years ago, Jamie Peters walked into his mother’s home in La Mesa and dropped off his house keys. It was a brief nighttime visit. He paused long enough to look around the familiar …
June 19, 2019
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Stories by H.G. Reza
The unsolved case of La Mesa's Jamie Peters
Mission Hills visitor to Vietnam sucked into MIA search
Antonio Palma felt something or someone was driving him to visit Vietnam, a place to which he had no ties. Not knowing what awaited him and traveling to the other side of the world without …
October 3, 2018
Alleged sexual assault at Lincoln High School leads to teacher's suicide
At the end of his life, Nathan Page dismissed the loyalty of friends who cared deeply about him. In a fit of pique, he unfriended many of them on Facebook and attacked them in angry …
March 28, 2018
Two separate tragedies on the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation
Leonard Duguay’s 85th birthday came and went on July 5, 2016, without celebration. The Modjeska Canyon resident had disappeared and the search for him took a mysterious turn weeks later when his car was found …
April 26, 2017
Army platoon interpreter in Afghanistan ends up in El Cajon
Sher Mohammad Haidari heard the radio crackle with Taliban chatter as the Army platoon he was with trudged through a valley in eastern Afghanistan looking for a U.S. soldier who had abandoned his post. The …
December 14, 2016
9/11 could have been stopped in San Diego
The 9/11 attacks could have been derailed in San Diego, had the CIA not spiked a memo alerting the FBI about an Al Qaeda terrorist who was coming to the United States and ended up …
September 7, 2016
What was Omar al-Bayoumi doing in San Diego?
Bayoumi met the hijackers at a Los Angeles restaurant, found a Clairemont apartment for them, helped them open a checking account at Bank of America, and hosted parties for them in San Diego and El Cajon.
July 27, 2016