Judicial Follies: Murder on the highway

Judicial Follies: Murder on the highway

On the night of December 27, 1986, 20 year-old Cara Evelyn Knott left her boyfriend’s home in Escondido, California, in northern San Diego County. He had been severely ill — so sick that Knott had stayed with him overnight to help him recuperate. She was heading for her parents’ home in El Cajon in the southwest part of the County. The route there took her along Interstate 15. Knott never reached her parents’ home. Concerned that she had indeed …