David Allan Oliker was 18 when he was killed on February 10, 1973, in Santa Cruz, California. He was one of four teenage boys shot while camping in Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park. The attacker, Herbert Mullin, approached the group claiming to be a park ranger and told them to leave; when they refused, he returned the next day and fatally shot them. The bodies were not discovered for a week.

Mullin, then 25, had a documented history of mental illness and drug use. After his arrest, investigators linked weapons found in his car to the bullets used in the killings and charged him with multiple homicides including Oliker’s. David Allan Oliker was born July 26, 1954, in Los Angeles and was the son of Philip Alexander Oliker and Sally Diane Deutchman.

Did anyone in the community know David or the other campers and have details about their time in the park?