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March 4, 2011

Skinhead drug suspect breaks down in court, asks for help

By Sam Stanton
sstanton@sacbee.com

The 36-year-old man detained on drug charges following the slaying Wednesday of nationally known skinhead organizer David Austin Lynch broke down in court this afternoon, crying out that he had lost his wife, his best friend and his children and saying he needed help.

"Can I speak?" Charles Gilbert Demar III said after Superior Court Judge Lawrence G. Brown read the three felony counts that could send Demar to prison for life under California's Three Strikes Law.

As Brown tried to caution Demar that it would be better for his lawyer to speak for him, Demar interrupted.

"I've been a productive member of society for six years," he said. "My kids. I've lost my best friend. ... I have nothing. I have nothing. I just need help."

Demar's attorney, Philip Cozens, calmed his client and asked the judge to allow him to see the psychiatrist at the Sacramento County Jail, where he is being held on $2 million bail.

Demar is charged with transporting methamphetamine for the benefit of a street gang, posssession for sale of methamphetamine and manufacturing the drug. Because he has previous felony convictions for burglary and assault he could face life if convicted on the current charges.

He has been named by Citrus Heights police as a "person of interest" in the early Wednesday slaying of Lynch, a 40-year-old man who was one of Demar's closest friends. Police have not said Demar is a suspect in the case, and Demar's former mother-in-law told The Bee Thursday that Demar would never have harmed Lynch.

Demar's wife, Sara, died Feb. 19 of undetermined causes, and she and Demar had two children, a 5-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.

Demar, a tattoo artist and lead singer in a popular white power band, also was fired recently from a job as an asbestos removal worker.

He did not enter a plea today and the case was continued to March 18.

Call The Bee's Sam Stanton, (916) 321-1091.

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Q: Where are the two men who were convicted of murdering my friend John O'Friel in Davis and left his body in a field in Woodland?

A: Timothy Wayne Wilson, then 22, of San Francisco, and a 17-year-old Davis boy were arrested in the July 8, 1993 murder of software salesman John Duncan O'Friel, 46, of San Bruno in a Davis park.

According to stories in The Bee, O'Friel's body was found early June 9 alongside a Yolo County road between Davis and Winters. The discovery came just hours after San Francisco police contacted the Davis Police Department to say that a 17-year-old Davis boy and a companion had been stopped for an illegal turn in San Francisco and the companion had fled.

The San Francisco officer who made the stop discovered blood in the back of the car registered to O'Friel and reported that the youth confessed to having been involved in a murder in Davis' Sycamore Park earlier that night. The youth, who was not identified in the stories because of his age, told police that he and Wilson had met O'Friel at a convenience store and gone with him to the park to drink beer.

Wilson was arrested about a month later. In 1994, a Yolo County jury convicted him of second-degree murder and sentenced him to 15 years to life in prison. In 2009, he was denied parole for five years.

According to an online roster of state prison inmates, Wilson, now 41, is incarcerated at California State Prison, Solano in Vacaville.

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