Young Carole Holman was good at many sports, especially soccer.
(Photo courtesy of Virginia Griffiths)
Carole dressed up as an angel.
(Photo courtesy of James and Vicki Holman)
Carole watched one of Mt. St Helens’s eruptions from her backyard.
(Photo courtesy of James and Vicki Holman)
Carole on her senior prom night.
(Photo courtesy of James and Vicki Holman)
Always a prankster, teenaged Todd Garton got his birthday cake all over his fingers and face.
(Photo courtesy of Collin Colebank)
Todd was the driving force behind Detente Touch, a popular band in Portland, Oregon, in the late 1980s.
(Photo courtesy of Collin Colebank)
Todd and fellow band member Ursula Desailles jamming on stage.
(Photo courtesy of Shannon Colebank)
Carole modeled a beautiful wedding dress before marrying Todd Garton in 1991.
(Photo courtesy of James and Vicki Holman)
Todd and Carole were married in Reno, Nevada.
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Lynn Noyes never gave up in her quest to have Todd all to herself, even after she married another man.
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Todd Garton recruited gun enthusiast and wargame fan Dale Gordon for his team of “assassins.”
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Norman Daniels as a senior at Alameda High School.
(Yearbook photo)
Daniels was recruited by Garton for his team of assassins.
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Todd showed his allegiance to Ireland and America by having a tattoo placed on his upper arm.
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Lynn Noyes was so enthralled with Todd that she got a tattoo on her arm similarly stating “One.”
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Todd boasted of military medals that he had never earned, including a Purple Heart and Marine Lieutenant’s Globe and Anchor pins.
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Todd claimed that he wore this jacket while helping the Irish Republican Army in Belfast.
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Planning to assassinate Lynn Noyes’s husband, Garton and his associates amassed an arsenal of weapons.
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Todd Garton created a homemade silencer for his sniper rifle.
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Garton used a Lasersite on his rifle during target practice from a motel window in Portland, Oregon.
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Garton, Daniels, and Gordon planned to gun down Dean Noyes in this Portland parking garage where he usually parked before going to work.
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When Noyes failed to show up at the parking garage, the trio of gunmen went to kill him at the home he shared with his wife, Lynn.
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Todd pretended to be happy when Carole told him she was pregnant, but he did not want children with her.
(Photo courtesy of James and Vicki Holman)
Carole Garton was seven months pregnant when she went to visit her mother in Oregon.
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On April 28, 1998, Garton went to Norman Daniels’s mobile home and gave him a package that supposedly came from The Company.
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The package had a wax seal on its surface, which Daniels thought was in the shape of a ram’s head.
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The impression on the wax seal was actually made by Todd Garton’s diving bubble pin.
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To get Daniels ready for his “mission” to kill Carole, Todd watched assassin videos with him.
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It appeared as though the elusive Colonel Sean, a high-powered operative in The Company, had sent e-mails to Daniels. In reality, Todd Garton sent the emails from this computer in his home.
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Todd Garton’s pistol had a Celtic Cross on the grip.
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Garton helped Norman Daniels buy this pistol. It was to be used to kill Carole.
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Deputy DA Greg Gaul, with the help of Shasta County Sheriff’s Detectives, put together a case against Todd Garton, Lynn Noyes, Norman Daniels and Dale Gordon in the plot to kill Dean Noyes and the murders of Carole Garton and her unborn son.
(Photo courtesy of Greg Gaul)
A key piece of evidence against the conspirators was this label maker that Todd had used to print up instructions for Norman Daniels.
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Miraculously, a Shasta County Sheriff’s scuba diver was able to retrieve the label maker out of the Sacramento River where Todd had thrown it after Carole was killed.
(Author’s photo)
Todd Garton and his fellow conspirators were all either found guilty or pled guilty to various crimes. Garton was found guilty of first degree murder and sentenced to death.
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Todd said that Carole and the unborn baby’s ashes were deposited over beautiful Burney Falls, but their actual location remains a mystery.
(Author’s photo)