Ronald Joseph Adeeb, BHS 1972

NOTE: Ronald Adeeb went missing Jan 1982 and so did six other people and all had ties to a used car dealership in the valley owned by Harvey Rader. All seven people remain missing. Below is exert on the case and links to other articles on this case..

As the investigation lurched forward, the police discovered that Rader had ties to three other unsolved missing-persons cases. Seven months before the Salomons vanished, British expats Peter and Joan Davis disappeared. The couple bought and sold luxury cars with Rader. According to reports, Rader told the police that Peter Davis was involved in fencing stolen jewelry and guns. When the police arrived at the Davises’ house in Granada Hills, the couple’s dinner was still cooking on the stove; their luggage, a valuable painting reportedly by Gainsborough, and their pet Akita were gone. Their Thunderbird was abandoned in a Los Angeles International Airport parking lot. This, the police would learn, was two months after a Burbank businessman named Ron Adeeb told relatives he was going to see a man about cars and vanished. The man was later determined to be Rader. Adeeb’s car was found in an LAX parking lot as well.

LAPD detectives believed that all parties had been murdered, and Rader was the prime suspect. But they lacked three significant elements to prove his guilt: a motive, witnesses, and the bodies.

In November 1983, Rader’s cousin, Ashley Paulle, came forward with a shocking story. Paulle had worked for Rader’s dealership, but returned to England after the Salomons went missing. He eventually contacted the authorities after being pressured by a private investigator hired by Elaine’s family. In exchange for immunity from prosecution, Paulle returned to the U.S. and told investigators he witnessed Rader shoot Sol in the head in the office at his dealership after Sol demanded repayment of the $20,000 he had invested. Paulle claimed that another car dealer named Gerald Baxter and two Italian men were present, and that he was instructed to drive Rader and the Italians to the Salomon home, where they subsequently murdered Elaine, Michelle and Mitchell. Paulle then helped Rader bury the family’s bodies in the desert in Antelope Valley. 

Paulle also implicated Rader in the disappearance of a British couple named Peter and Joan Davis, who went missing on March 17, 1982. The Davises lived only two miles away from the Salomons and also did business with Rader’s dealership. According to Paulle, Rader murdered the couple in order to steal valuable artwork from their home and he helped Rader bury the bodies in the desert near Bakersfield. 

Paulle also claimed that Rader told him he was responsible for the January 1982 disappearance of a Burbank businessman named Ronald Adeeb, who also invested money in Rader’s dealership, but Paulle had no idea where Adeeb’s body was.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-01-02-me-34203-story.html

https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/salomon-unsolved-murder/https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/9d5fyo/the_1982_disappearance_of_the_salomon_family/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-me-2199-story.html