Murder by suicide: Judge’s ruling a ‘gut-punch’ in Linda Cummings’ case

Orange County Superior Court

Department C-35

Oct. 9, 2009

Louis Wiechecki, in a suit and tie, sat at the counsel table in Judge Frank Fasel’s eighth-floor courtroom awaiting the most important judicial ruling in his life.

Editor’s note

Former Orange County Register reporter Larry Welborn covered Linda Cummings’ story from 1974 until his retirement in 2014 and still pursued the truth in the following years. He wrote about it in the new book “Murder by Suicide...