The State - News from March 14, 1985

Rafe Barker, sentenced in 1983 for helping a self-styled Nazi kill a youth near Oroville, has been arrested as an escapee from a California Youth Authority institution. Yolo County detectives said Barker, now 20, was arrested outside a West Sacramento motel. The officers had staked out the motel on an unrelated case, but saw Barker display a knife and then conceal it. They said he gave a false name when they arrested him but, through fingerprints, he was identified as the young man who escaped from a Santa Cruz County CYA facility on Jan. 13. Linda Swafford, 31, was also arrested on a charge of aiding and abetting an escapee. Officers said Barker had been staying with her. Barker was a prosecution witness against Perry Bernard (Red) Warthan, a self-styled Nazi who was convicted of first-degree murder in the shooting of Joseph Hoover, 17.