Launius Cass Paley was suspected of killing 27 people in California before dying at age 37 .
Reportedly , at the time of his death , at age 37 , police investigators throughout California – largely in the Sacramento area – had 27 open homicide cases they believed were perpetrated by Launius Cass Paley , quotation in the director 's cut of Wadd : The Life and Times of John C. Holmes , 1998In May 1974 , he was arrested for and charged with the 1973 murder of a reputed police drug informant who had been killed over a botched drug deal .
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