no. >> this prosecutor says nellie stanworth was likely killed in early november. saying the autopsy revealed it was murder. saying it did not appear his wife knew about the death though the body had been on the property sometime. stanworth spent seven years on death row for killing two teenagers in 1966 for a series of kidnap rapes before and after. in the 70s, california overturned the death penalty. last week stanworth blurted quote i plead guilty to everything. i did everything. this is the third one. this time, he said little. except to ask for a device for the hard of hearing. his prior outbursts may come back to haunt the killer its something that can be used against him. it's something i can use if we need to. >> he will be in fairfield next month. >> still head here tonight the calm before the storm. you're going to see what organizers of the mavericks surf contest are doing. they await arrival of those big waves. >> there are big waves coming up. a spare the air alert. accu-weather forecast is coming up. >> a calm calls a plumbing company estimating for f

detectives arrived at his home, they found nellie stanworth's remains. according to the complaint prosecutors think dennis stanworth killed his mother november 6th of last year. her body found outside on the property stanworth shares with his wife and father-in-law. his wife was in court but declined comment to abc 7 news. >>[ó, and just devastated this area. >> his arrest and that he has been living free for 22 years has been difficult for the families of the two teen-aged girls he was sent to death death row for sexual assaulting and killing in 1966 this, woman is afraid of stanworth. she was raises as a sister as one of the young victim autos are you confident they'll keep him in this time? >> no. i'm scared to death. they are going to -- someone is going fall through cracks and he's going to be best behavior, it's going to happen, again. very no confidence at all. >> now, this case stanworth being charged with first degree murder with special circumstance he killed before. if convicted he could face the death penalty. that is the sentence he escaped 4

investigators believe she is the suspect's mother nelly stanworth. according to police, dennis stanworth was sentenced to death for sexually assaulting and killing two teenaged girls in 1966. his sentence was reversed later. >>> in contra costa county, pittsburg police say there's much more to the story about a man who killed a suspected burglar inside his apartment. four people are now in custody accused of what began as an elaborate plot to scare the man. investigators say charmaine was having an extramarital affair and wanted to frighten her husband into moving out of the apartment that they shared on east leeland lane. >> they plotted a burglary with her current boyfriend in an effort to scare him him to leave the residence. >> police say they enlisted three other men to help out. it all unfolded tuesday morning. investigators say the husband got into a struggle with one of the suspects robert earl lindsey and managed to stab lindsey to death in self- defense. the woman, her boyfriend and the two other suspects were arrested. they are eligible for

he called them just before noon yesterday to say he had just killed his 89- year-old mother, nelly stanworth, in a home on the 2500 block of marshfield road here in vallejo. dennis has a long and violent criminal history including kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing two teenaged girls in contra costa county back in the 1960s. he spent decade in prison sentenced to death for that but his sentence was reversed and he was paroled. now, police are going to be talking more about this case later on this morning here in vallejo and we will keep you posted. live in vallejo, anne makovec, cbs 5. >> thank you. >>> breaking news in new jersey. these are live pictures from the scene of a bus crash in the city of old bridge, new jersey. according to early reports, two buses smashed into one another on route 9. a school bus and a passenger bus. you see all the chaos down below. the passenger bus appears to have a tree through the roof. it doesn't appear there were any students on the school bus though. we'll be monitoring this story and bring you any updates as we get them. quite a situation in ne

it's unclear at this point what, if anything, she knew about nellie stanworth's murder ot fact the body was on the property. dennis stanworth is due back in court next week. at that time he may enter a plea and statementing made could be used at his trial n fairfield abc 7 news. >> thank you. >> seven people suffered injuries and one person taken to the hospital for anxiety after two school buses got into a minor accident this afternoon. they got into a fender bender at clayton road and marsh creek road. police say one bus rear ended another, and they say no one was seriously hurt. >> the alameda county sheriff's department no longer actively searching for a jail inmate who escaped today. the 31-year-old being transported to highland hospital. authorities launched a search of the area. he was in custody on multiple robbery charge autos in san francisco, people are out in numbers to make a point about sexual violence against women. a rally scheduled before an attack last weekend. abc 7 news is live in the mission district want to a story. nick? >> they say that that was necessary because

that he called them just before noon yesterday to say he had just killed his 89- year-old mother nelly stanworth0 block of marshfield road in vallejo. dennis has a long and violent criminal history including kidnapping, sexually assaulting and killing two teenaged girls in contra costa county back in the '60s. he was sentenced to death for that. but his sentence was reversed. and he was freed. again, police say he just admitted to killing his mother. police will tell us more about this crim later on this morning and we'll keep you posted. live in vallejo, anne makovec, cbs 5. >>> all right, anne, thank you. >>> in contra costa county, there's much more to the story after a man killed a suspected burglar in his apartment. four people are now in custody accused of what pittsburg police say began as a plot and ended in homicide. investigators say charmaine taijeron set it up to frighten her husband out of their apartment. police say taijeron and her boyfriend enlisted three other men to help. investigators say the husband stabbed one suspect in self- defense. taijeron, her boyfriend and the two oth

checked it out and sure enough they found evidence that dennis stanworth did kill his mother nellie stanworthp sheet back in 1966 he pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and shooting to teenage girls 14 and 15 years old. >> he was sentenced to death but that was overturned. the authorities sentenced to life in prison. somewhere along the way we are trying to find out when he was eventually paroled. once he got out of prison he stayed with his mother until what happened yesterday. we will try to get more information before the news conference. i know investigators will arrive here about 8:00 a.m. this morning. hopefully that would cause more inflation on exactly what happened. they have known this guy for quite some time. when they pulled up his record they were like ah ha we know you are we will learn more about him in about five hours now. >> what was the relationship with the mom over the years will? >> it is a gated community. i am sure there are in shock. we will try to get reaction from the neighbors. as far as we know he and his mom were the only two people stayed at home.

. >> reporter: 70-year-old dennis stanworth is in jail accused of killing his 90-year-old mother nelly turner stanworth. police say he called them yesterday to tell them what he had done. police came to his home on marshfield road in hidden brook and found his mother's body. >> oh, awful. >> reporter: these ladies live in the neighborhood. >> we were always kind of leery of him. >> reporter: that killing was just the latest for stanworth. back in the '60s, he kidnapped and sexually assaulted and killed two teenaged girls in contra costa county. he was sentenced to death in 1966 but that sentence was later turned into a life sentence. >> the victims have no rights. >> reporter: stanworth was let out of prison on parole and was registered as a sex offender with the vallejo pd since the '90s. >> i do believe in truth in sentencing. the sentence was life, it should have been life. it's not my position and i respect the law and enforce it. >> reporter: neighbors say he lived with his son and son's wife here. >> walk like this i never i didn't know him. >> reporter: why? >> i'm scared. [ ind

the state 70 road dennis stanworth told police that he had killed his 89 year old mother and nellie stanworthher body. he is a former death row inmate was found guilty in 1966 of kidnapping and killing a teenage girls in contra costa county. he had been living with his mother after being paroled. >> the suspect accused of adapting his children from san francisco and boarding installing got last year will be in court for his preliminary hearing today. this is video christopher mcveigh's last court hearing. he took his three year-old daughter brooklyn and 2 year-old son at that and from their mother home their mother's home back as the december of last year. he then drove into the mir are or where he stole a 40 ft. sailboat. the coast as does it attract the track about the monterey bay and the children safely reunite with their mother. is facing five felony counts in this case. >> more on a developing story at the i crews may be surgicenter ballot well for a long time is a look for human remains. it is all part of the speed freak killers case. tim and plan for killing a rampage and 1980's and 9

police say dennis stanworth admitted to killing nellie turner stan worth in their home this woke. convicted killer convicted of that. but his sentence was changed when they did away with that. he was released on parole in 1990. >>> police in free monte in fremont say that was the first homicide of the year, they found it there then. two hours later a 27-year-old man showed up at the police station and turned himself in. investigators say he also handed over the gun used in the killing. both the victim and the suspect live at the home and they were related. they have yet to release a motive. >>> police say they are searching for at least two men who held 14 people hostage during a robbery at a clothing store. police say robbers stabbed an employee and sexually assaulted another during the four hour long hostage stand off at a nordstrum rack, they entered then and held them at gunpoint. hours later a swat team stormed into the store and discovered they had fled. the frightened hostages were found huddled together. >> the majority were in one location, a storage room in one of the --

. >> philip bensing lived next door to stanworth's mother a woman he affectionately referred to as nellie bell. he says she loved to sit on porch and tend to her tomatoes. he claimed stanworth told him his mother died more than a month ago. >> i have no idea why anybody would want to do that to her, no idea, let alone her son. >> friends and neighbors say stanworth should never have been released. they wonder how many more killers and rapists are living nearby. we're told stanworth served just 13 years in prison. he declined to talk to us from jail today. he's expected to be arraigned in court in the next few days. reporting live in solano county, i'm jodi hernandez, nbc bay area news. >> thank you. in the south bay now, who's in charge? as of next week, san jose will not have a police chief and as of right now, they have no finalists. the news came today from the city manager. the current chief is retiring and the assistant chief is already heading to another department. nbc bay area's david trujillo broke this news on twitter today and joins us this evening from city hall. >> raj, every

neighbors say they are not entirely shocked. 70-year-old dennis stanworth has been in jail accused of killing his 90-year-old mother nelly. police say he called them yesterday to say what he had done. police came to his home on marshfield road in hidden brook and found his mother's body. >> awful. >> reporter: these ladies live in the neighborhood. >> we were always kind of leery of him. >> reporter: that killing was just the latest for stanworth. back in the '60s he kidnapped, sexually assaulted and killed two teenaged girls in contra costa county. he was sentenced to death in 1966 but that sentence was later turned into a life sentence. >> the victims have no rights. >> reporter: stanworth was let out of prison on parole and was registered as a sex offender with the vallejo pd since the '90s. >> i believe in truth in sentencing. the sentence was life, it should have been life. but it's not my position and i respect the law and i enforce the law as it's giving to us. >> reporter: neighbors say stanworth lived here with his son and his son's wife. >> i didn't know him. i'm scared. >> reporter: now that he is incarcerated

. >> the 70 year-old dennis stanworth told police that he had killed his 89 year- old mother nellie.led officers to robotic. >> he is a former death row inmate who was found guilty in 1966 of kidnapping and killing two teenage girls in contra costa county. he had been living with his mother after being paroled. >> a man was killed after his big rig crashed along highway 37 and vallejo is been identified as 430 william ballard of roseville. >> this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc seven news. he was driving west on 37 when he collided with a white pickup. the big rigs fell from a high way to a grassy area near north bound 294 bursting into flames. saxons of both highways were closed for several hours. >> the caiman that was found apparently guarding 34 lbs. of marijuana at a castro valley home on tuesday as died. the alligator like creature named steve was seized reprobation check and handed over to the oakland zoo. the owner is now facing drug charges. >> we're getting our first look at the man accused of dousing his girlfriend with gasoline and setting her on fire.