Police Say Woman Had Yosemite Victim’s Banking Numbers
MODESTO — A woman recently indicted for mail theft had the checking account and automated teller machine numbers of Carole Sund, who was abducted and killed along with her daughter and a young traveling companion during a trip to Yosemite, investigators said.
Rachel Lou Campbell, 36, who is being held without bail in Fresno, is a key witness in the ongoing investigation and is attempting to negotiate a plea arrangement with prosecutors, according to three unidentified sources close to the investigation.
Details of the case, now in the hands of a Fresno grand jury, were reported by the Sacramento Bee.
Investigators believe that others took information from Sund’s ATM and check identification cards and gave it to Campbell with the intention of creating check facsimiles bearing Sund’s account number.
The cards were in a portion of Sund’s wallet that was found on a Modesto street three days after the sightseers disappeared. The bodies of the Eureka mother, her daughter, Juliana, and their Argentine friend, Silvina Pelosso, were found about a month later in two different locations.
Campbell’s lawyer, Frank Carson of Modesto, could not be reached for comment.
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