Gerald & Charlene Gallego

When Gerald and Charlene returned to her parents house the next morning, the police were there.� Gerald disappeared quickly, leaving Charlene to deal with investigators questions.� She and her boyfriend had gone to a movie the night before, she said; theyd driven his red Triumph.� When detectives reminded her that the Triumph had been parked in front of the house all night, she said theyd gotten so drunk she couldnt remember which car theyd taken.� The detectives left deeply suspicious.

Gerald decided that Craig Millers body, which hed taken no trouble to conceal, had to be moved before police found it.� He didnt know, however, that it had already been discovered, and when he and Charlene went looking for it that night, it was nowhere to be found.� It was time to run, they decided.� They drove to Reno where they ditched the Olds and boarded a bus for Salt Lake City.

Back in Sacramento the evidence was mounting.� Craig Millers fraternity brother identified a picture of Gerald as the man hed seen in the Oldsmobile with Craig and Mary Beth.� Charles Williams told police that Stephen Feils real name was Gerald Gallego.� The bullets removed from Craig Millers body matched those Gerald had shot into the ceiling of a bar where he had worked.�

Charlene called her parents from Salt Lake City asking for money, which they wired to her.� She and Gerald moved on to Denver, then to Omaha, Nebraska, where once again she called her parents.� Reluctantly, they agreed to wire more money.� This time, though, they told the FBI what they were doing.� Agents were waiting at the Western Union office in Omaha, and they picked up the couple without a struggle.

Mug shots of Gerald and Charlene
Gallego when they were arrested.

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