John Linley Frazier (January 26, 1946 – August 13, 2009), also known as The Killer Prophet, was an American mass murderer who killed five people in Santa Cruz County, California, the first of three men who would go on killing sprees in Santa Cruz County in the 1970s, the others being Herbert Mullin and Edmund Kemper. Biography John Linley Frazier was born on January 26, 1946, to Patricia Irene ( Adams) and William B. Frazier. After his mother remarried, to Santa Cruz resident Pierre Pascal, Frazier attended elementary and middle school in Capitola, followed by Santa Cruz High School, where he dropped out in 1961 as a freshman. Frazier's "first brush" with the juvenile justice system was at age 15, and he was held in police custody again in 1964. Following a car accident in the late 1960s, he had become a religious fanatic who obsessively studied the Bible. He believed the voice of God was telling him to commit homicides in order to prevent the environment from being destroyed by rich men like Victor Ohta. God, Frazier told friends, had chosen him to save the environment. Murders Background The murders took place a little over a year after the Tate–LaBianca murders by Manson Family members in Los Angeles as well as the Zodiac Killer murders in San Francisco. Frazier had convinced himself that he was the John referred to in the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, and efforts by his wife and mother to get Frazier to seek therapy were unsuccessful. A week before the murders, he told his wife that "some materialists might have to die" for him to fulfill his destiny. Day of the murders On October 19, 1970, Frazier entered the home of wealthy ophthalmologist Victor Ohta in the oceanfront resort area of Soquel, a few miles south of Santa Cruz. Perched atop a hilltop overlooking Monterey Bay, the mansion had been designed by a disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright. Frazier proceeded to murder Ohta, his wife, their two sons, and Ohta's medical secretary. He shot the five of them with a .38 caliber revolver and pushed their bodies in the home's swimming pool. After the killings, Frazier typed a note on a typewriter owned by Ohta, which he left on the window of Ohta's Rolls-Royce. The note read: Halloween, 1970. Today World War III will begin, as bought to you by the People of the