Noe Cortez
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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They stopped at a baseball field where they became intimate. But when Margaret Williams decided that she didn't want to continue, John Getrue sexually assaulted her and strangled her to death.
There was witnesses. Some of the other students that were at the same function said that they walked away together. There was some other students that saw them near the baseball field. They interviewed him and he eventually admitted to what he did. So the. German authorities conducted their investigation along with a parallel investigation by the military police.
And so he was convicted of the murder, the sexual assault and murder of Margaret Williams. And he was sentenced to 10 years in jail.
I looked into his criminal record and what I found out was that in 1975, he was also arrested and convicted of a sexual assault of a 17-year-old girl in the city of Palo Alto.
I found out that he was still alive and that he lived in the city of Newark, California, which was located just a few miles from San Jose and Palo Alto.
The information that I received that he was possibly the person that that the DNA was associated to underneath Leslie Perloff's funerals. It's just an investigative lead. We have to confirm that this is the actual person. That's actually his DNA.
We went to his house and set up surveillance on him. Our goal was to hopefully follow him somewhere and obtain some surreptitious DNA, something that he would discard, something that we can collect and compare. Any DNA that he left behind in this evidence item that he discarded to the DNA located under Leslie's fingernail clippings.
And it was sometime around 12 o'clock in the afternoon that a female drove into the driveway. That's when I first saw John Getrue walk out of his house and get into his vehicle. We followed the female, which I later found out was his wife. and John Gettrude to a doctor's office.
After he was done with his doctor's appointment, he walked to another part of this complex where there was stores, and I saw him buy a cup of coffee along with his wife, and eventually they walked into the pharmacy to get John Gettrude's medication.
My partner, Sergeant Piazza, sat inside the pharmacy directly across from John Getrie as he consumed his coffee, and he observed him throw away his cup in a garbage can. As soon as John Getrie and his wife left, we collected both cups that were discarded, and I later submitted those cups to the Santa Clara County Crime Lab.
I was notified by the crime lab that the DNA from the coffee cup that John Getru was drinking was the match to the DNA underneath Leslie Perloff's fingernails.
He was 74 at the time of his arrest.
We had him transported to my office, the sheriff's office headquarters in San Jose, and that's where I interviewed him for two to three hours.
I asked him about Eddie had been arrested. He said no. And when I told him, well, I found out that something happened in Germany. And he said, well, looks like you did your homework.
I'll let you know what's going on and why you're here today.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Before I let you know what's going on, I just want to get your personal information. Just confirm your name. Your full name is John Arthur. Getru. I started the interview with just the general information about himself. And so I slowly talked to him about himself, about his family, about his family's history, about where he lived.
He made statements about being older and his memory wasn't that good anymore, that he couldn't remember certain details.
Now, you mentioned that he had never been arrested, and I found out that something happened in Germany.
And so we continued the interview, and eventually I also brought up the 1975 rape arrest and conviction of the 17-year-old female in Palo Alto. He said something like, oh, that was so piddly. They said I raped her, but he didn't want to go into details about that case. And then at some point, there was another accusation against you about a sexual assault from the Palo Alto Police Department?
Okay. Did you end up serving time for that? Do you remember?
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