"At about 10 p.m. on the evening of Dec. 14, 1984, Arndt and his date were in a parked car in a wooded area on Mountain View Road in Burney, an unincorporated town about 50 miles northeast of Redding. A large sedan with a dull finish reportedly drove close to the couple, so they drove on to a more private spot."
""When the shooting started, Terry covered the female victim with his own body to protect her from being shot," the sheriff's office said in a statement this week. The man then got into the car and sexually assaulted the woman. Afterward, she drove the car into town and flagged down a California Highway Patrol officer as the suspect fled the scene, aided in his escape by the falling snow that covered his tracks. Arndt was declared dead that night at a local hospital."
Roger Neil Schmidt, who was 23 at the time, pleaded guilty to murder and sexual assault for a December 14, 1984 attack in Burney, Shasta County. At about 10 p.m., 18-year-old Terry Arndt and his date were parked in a wooded area on Mountain View Road when a large sedan drove near them and later returned. The driver approached and shot Arndt through the driver's side window with a .22-caliber rifle. Arndt covered the female victim with his body and was killed at a hospital that night. The assailant then sexually assaulted the woman before fleeing; snowfall helped obscure his tracks.
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