David Allen Rundle

Rundle was sentenced to death in 1989 for the murders of Garcia and Sorensen. As the sentence was being handed down multiple jurors were reported crying. He was also given a life sentence for the murder of Lactawen. He is currently incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison.

On April 16, 1987, Rundle was attacked in his sleep by his cellmate Melton Eugene Voight, who was awaiting trial for armed robbery. Rundle was hospitalized for 10 days, while Voight was moved to Folsom State Prison for his violent outburst.

In May 1986 Rundle, high on marijuana, was pacing around the Sacramento River near Front Street, an area known for a high population of vagrants. While there he chatted up one transient, 21-year-old Elizabeth Latorre Lactawen. According to Rundle, he was able to convince her to follow him to the bushes where the two proceeded to have sex. Rundle then claimed he "freaked out" and out of instinct started strangling her until she died. He left her dead body beneath the Pioneer Bridge in Sacramento, where it was found on May 10 by an unidentified person who called into the Secret Witness Program. In the investigation a witness who saw the killer came forward to police, and due to Rundle, then 21, looking young for his age, the attacker was described as looking like a 17-year-old male who was about 5ft 10inch. A reward of $2,500 was announced to anyone who could identify the killer.

David Allen Rundle (born January 4, 1965) is an American serial killer and rapist who murdered three young women in Sacramento and Placer County, California over six months in 1986. He admitted to all three killings, blaming his actions on mental illness and abuse he received as a child. Convicted of all three murders and sentenced to death for two of them, he is currently on death row.

David Allen Rundle was born in Nevada County on January 4, 1965, the son of chief warrant officer for the United States Navy David William Rundle. Although born in California, his family moved to live in Idaho. According to his parents, he was a normal child who enjoyed fishing and hunting, which changed when he fell into a drug addiction at age 14. In later years it came out that his mother sexually abused him in his youth. His parents later moved Georgia, where he attended high school but dropped out not long after. After a while they moved to Colfax, California, where the family stopped seeing Rundle. In 1984, Rundle got married, but once his wife fell pregnant he abandoned her. Instead, his parents started taking care of her.