On February 9, 2000, the bodies of Skip Tillman, 55, and his wife Joni, 51, were found buried in a shallow grave in a remote wash in Yucaipa, California. The couple had last been seen at their La Cañada Flintridge home on February 6, 2000 and were reported missing before their remains were located three days later. Both had been strangled.

Investigators have noted several possible motives mentioned in connection with Skip’s life. He was an accountant who faced allegations of embezzling a substantial sum from a client, and the couple had been involved in a legal dispute over a land deal in Georgia. Authorities have pursued leads related to those disputes but the killings remain unsolved and the case is being treated as a cold case by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.