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In 1952 on a highway near the outskirts of Plumas County, in the small Northern California mountain village of Chester, a local businessman, Guard Young, and three of his young children, sisters Jean, 7, Judy, 6, and Sondra, 3, and a neighbor boy, Michael Saile, 4, are carjacked, robbed and savagely bludgeoned by the so-called Mountain Murder Mob.

Young and three of the children are killed, but Sondra managed to survive the attack.

Jack Santo leads the four-person gang, which includes Emmett Perkins, George Boles and Harriet Henson.

Thus begins the premise for the real-life crime story, “A Massacre of Innocents,” by Roseville resident and author Loren Abbey, with research by South Carolina native Pamela Zibura, published last year by iUniverse.

At the time, Abbey said that Young owned a food store with his wife; Young’s Supermarket, which is today a sporting goods emporium called Sports Nut in downtown Chester.

“Chester didn’t have a bank at the time,” Abbey discovered in his r