Brown

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL

HISTORY

On October 28, 1980, about 7:30 a.m., 15-year-old Susan Jordan left her home to walk to Arlington High School. Peo- ple v. Brown, 40 Cal. 3d 512, 522 (1985). She never arrived, and efforts throughout the day to locate her were unsuccess- ful. That evening, Susan’s mother answered the telephone and a caller asked “Hello, Mrs. Jordan, Susie isn’t home from school yet, is she?” Mrs. Jordan replied that she was not. The voice then declared, “You will never see your daughter again. You can find her body on the corner of Victoria and Gibson.” At Mrs. Jordan’s request, the caller repeated the information, then hung up. Within a half-hour, another call said, “On the corner of Gibson and Victoria, fifth row, you will find a white Caucasian body of a young girl in the orange grove.” Id.

While police officers were at the Jordan home later that evening, a third call was received. The caller said, “You can find Sue’s identification in a telephone booth at the Texaco station at Arlington and Indiana.” Id. Officers were sent to the Texaco station, where they discovered two Arlington High 12610 BROWN v. ORNOSKI School identification…