Paula Zahn to Cover the Case of Missing Fullerton College Student
Categories: 2010 Homicides
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| Investigation Discovery |
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| Courtesy of the Orange County Sheriff's Department |
| McAmis's mugshot after his 2010 arrest. |
It would be close to ten years before investigators located Ekelund's remains buried in a Santa Clarita canyon where McAmis operated a tractor for his father's construction company. As a Fullerton College student studying journalism in 2009 I interviewed the man who confessed in 2010 to strangling Ekelund in his Whittier apartment, then burying her on his lunch break. In the years before his arrest, McAmis lived the good life in a Fullerton neighborhood with his wife and family, spending his days playing Xbox and operating a gaming website. He's currently housed in Wasco State Prison on a 15 to life sentence.
Following his arrest, I continued to cover the story for the Weekly and was interviewed for the forthcoming episode of the Paula Zahn show. Whether any of my segment makes it to air is uncertain, and largely irrelevant. Crime buffs will want to watch how Placentia Detective Bryce Angel and Larry Montgomery, a clever cold case investigator with the Orange County District Attorney's Office, masterfully cracked a case that had come to a stalemate between cops and a cold blooded murderer.
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