A California man was arrested in connection with a double homicide a month after one of his alleged victims called him out by name in a Facebook post.
James David Collier, 66, was taken into custody by California Highway Patrol detectives on Sunday, the culmination of a monthlong homicide investigation . On March 24, the bodies of Sean Pfeffer, 45, and Colter White, 54, were found in the back of a pickup truck in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Both died of gunshot wounds, according to the Santa Clara Medical Examiner.
But it was a social media post by one of the dead men, published on the purported day the alleged murders took place, that led the police in Collier’s direction.
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In a March 23 post on Facebook , published at 5:10 p.m. that day, Pfeffer seemed to point the finger at Collier. Pfeffer wrote, “If today isn’t work out know that it was James Collier the piece of crap that I invited to this mountain that still hasn’t left,” adding, “I’m rolling down there right now Jimmy I hope you shoot me.”…