James Clifford Carson (aka Michael Bear Carson) and Suzan Barnes Carson were serial killers active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s. Involved in the counter-culture movement, their crimes emerged from a shared missionary philosophy to exterminate individuals they believed to be "witches". The pair reportedly kept a list of targeted individuals including celebrities and political figures such as Johnny Carson and then-president Ronald Reagan.

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  • James Clifford Carson (aka Michael Bear Carson) and Suzan Barnes Carson were serial killers active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s. Involved in the counter-culture movement, their crimes emerged from a shared missionary philosophy to exterminate individuals they believed to be "witches". The pair reportedly kept a list of targeted individuals including celebrities and political figures such as Johnny Carson and then-president Ronald Reagan. After their arrest in 1983, they held a news conference confessing to murders including those of Karen Barnes, stabbed to death in her home in Haight-Ashbury, Clark Stephens, murdered and mutilated in Humboldt County and John Hillyar, murdered while hitchhiking in the Napa Valley. On 12 June 1984 the Carsons were convicted of one murder and sentenced to serve twenty five years to life in prison. Later they were convicted of two other murders and given the same twenty five years to life sentence.
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  • James Clifford Carson (aka Michael Bear Carson) and Suzan Barnes Carson were serial killers active in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s. Involved in the counter-culture movement, their crimes emerged from a shared missionary philosophy to exterminate individuals they believed to be "witches". The pair reportedly kept a list of targeted individuals including celebrities and political figures such as Johnny Carson and then-president Ronald Reagan.
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  • Michael Bear Carson and Suzan Carson
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