Nearly 41 years after a carpenter was found beaten to death in his home, Newport Beach police arrested a 70-year-old man in connection to the cold case. Michael Larry Manatt was arrested Friday on ...

11:05 a.m. Dec. 11, 2024: A previous version of this article identified the suspect as Larry Manatt. His full name is Michael Larry Manatt. Nearly 41 years after a carpenter was found beaten to ...

The case went cold but was reopened in recent years, giving authorities a fresh set of eyes to try to find a person of interest. "In 1983, [Newport Beach Police Department] detectives completed ...

More than a week after Newport Beach police announced they’d found and arrested a suspect in a four-decade-old homicide case, the man has been freed and county prosecutors say they don’t ...

A 70-year-old man who Newport Beach police have publicly identified as the suspected killer behind a 41-year-old cold case slaying has yet to be charged with the crime and has already been ...

The Newport Beach Police Department has made an arrest in connection to a 41-year-old cold case murder of an Orange County man. Detectives from the NBPD arrested Michael Larry Manatt, 70 ...

who was killed in his Newport Beach home on December 13, 1983. In 1983, NBPD detectives completed many interviews and collected evidence from the residence, though detectives were unable to file ...

The 19-year-old pre-med college student attended the University of Pennsylvania and returned home to Southern California for ...