Body found west of dam. Shot several times with a high-powered rifle Rachell Ward, a 14-year-old from Red Bluff, California, was brutally murdered on March 3, 1983. On the morning of her death, Ward was walking to school, a short five-block journey, when she disappeared. Later that day, her body was discovered along Pine Creek Road, a few miles west of Red Bluff in Tehama County. The investigation revealed that she had been bound, sexually assaulted, and shot in the back of the head. The community was left in shock, and authorities immediately launched an intensi
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