Crime Solvers Central
Crime Solvers Central
302 Cases Solved. Advancing justice for missing persons, unsolved homicides, unidentified and unclaimed remains.

Forum Posts for Margaret Moreno:
Be respectful. Abuse of these forums will not be tolerated.

Margaret Moreno, 44, was one of five people shot dead during the Pato’s Place massacre on July 18, 1995, at Pato’s Place bar, 725 West Prosperity Avenue, Tulare, California. Three men wearing ski masks and armed with shotguns entered the bar that night, demanded money and collected roughly $300 before the robbery turned into an execution-style shooting; each victim was shot at point-blank range. The bar’s owner, Guadalupe Cantu, was critically wounded.

Investigators described the probe as extensive and eventually identified three suspects: Timothy Young, Donald Young and Anthony Wolfe. Wolfe, initially arrested on unrelated counterfeiting charges, cooperated and sought immunity; his testimony helped link the Young brothers to the killings. In April 1999 Timothy and Donald Young were arrested and charged with five counts of murder and one count of attempted murder with special allegations that exposed them to the death penalty, and the case proceeded through lengthy pretrial and trial phases.

Does anyone have personal recollections of Pato’s Place or information about that night that could shed light on the massacre?