http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/34307241/

"Detectives said Sunday the victim of a double slaying on a beach a week ago has beeen identified as an Army deserter carrying a friend’s identification so he wouldn’t be caught. Homer Clyde Shadwick, 19, of Saginaw, Mich., was hacked to death as he slept on a University of California campus beach with two acquaintences after attending a Fourth of July fireworks display. A California youth also was slain, and another has been in critical condition since the attack. Officers first thought Shadwick was Larry Steve Hess, 20, of Lagrange, Ind., because that was the name on all identification cards in his wallet. Fingerprints received from Florida, where Hess had an arrest record, proved the victim was not Hess. Final identification was made after the FBI was able to match the victim’s fingerprints with Shadwick’s. Shadwick’s sister I was located in Seaside. Calif., and she identified the body. Detectives also found Hess living at the home of Shadwick’s sister and her husband. Hess said he was unaware he had been listed as the victim. Hess told officers he and Shadwick lived together in Saginaw before hitchhiking to the coast in June. Shadwick was listed as a deserter from Ft. Lewis, Wash., since October. He and Hess closely resembled each other, deputies said. Detectives did not know how Shadwick met up with Thomas Victor Dolan, 17, of Manhattan Beach, and Thomas M. Hayes, 19, of Hermosa Beach, but think they met while hitchhiking. The trio apparently decided to spend the night on the beach after watching a fireworks display. Hie bodies of Shadwick and Dolan – beaten and cut up by a knife and a machete-like weapon – were found Sunday morning. Hayes has not fully regained consciousness. No arrests have been made in the case."

The Escanaba Daily Press, 13 July 1970.

The incident happened shortly after the Button and before the Kathleen Johns letter.

QT