Pleasanton high school trainer, charged with double murder, resented victims during rocky relationship, police say

The clock struck midnight on Feb. 20. Allen Swadley, driving down Lyle Drive in San Jose, had just turned 32 years old.

But it would be a birthday without celebration. A police squad car was behind him. Within the first few minutes of his birthday, he’d be handcuffed, en route to Dublin’s Santa Rita Jail, facing charges of double murder.

It had been a wild 48 hours for Swadley. After the killings of Lori Simonds and her son, Evan, in their home on the 3100 block of Joanne Circle...