Boyd Wayne Johnson was 24 when he was murdered on May 8, 1982, inside the Alameda County jail in California. The motive given was Mason’s belief that Johnson was a snitch who had provided information to authorities.

Mason’s documented crimes began with a series of robberies and strangulations of elderly people from March 1980 to May 1982; he was arrested on February 4, 1981. After Johnson’s killing, Mason was convicted of five counts of first-degree murder, including Johnson’s, and was sentenced to death in 1984. The account notes Mason was executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison on August 24, 1993.

Does anyone have memories or documents about Johnson’s time in the Alameda County jail or about the circumstances that led to him being housed with Mason?