A 70-year-old man who Newport Beach police have publicly identified as the suspected killer behind a 41-year-old cold case slaying has yet to be charged with the crime and has already been released on bail from city lockup.
Investigators on Dec. 7 announced that they had arrested Michael Larry Manatt for the Dec. 13, 1983, killing of Ronald Gaskey, a 36-year-old construction worker found dead in the hallway of his Newport Shores home.
But more than a week later, the case had not been submitted to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, DA spokeswoman Kimberly Edds said.
DA officials — who would decide what criminal charges to file — “do not anticipate anything being submitted to us,” Edds added.
Newport Beach police officials did not comment on when, or if, they plan to submit the case to the DA’s Office.
Newport Beach officials in a recent statement regarding the cold case noted that detectives back in 1983 had “completed many interviews and collected evidence from the residence (but were) unable to file charges on any suspect.”
The case was reopened “over the past few years,” Newport officials wrote in their recent statement, with current detectives having “diligently read through numerous reports, studied evidence and completed additional interviews, which ultimately led to the identification of Michael Larry Manatt as a suspect in the murder.”
Newport Beach police officials have not specified exactly how long Manatt has been a suspect in relation to Gaskey’s killing, what specific evidence is believed to tie him to the slaying, or what tie, if any, existed between the two men.
Following his arrest, Manatt — unlike most suspects in serious crimes — was never transferred from the Newport Beach city jail to county jail, Newport Beach police officials acknowledged.
Instead, police officials said, Manatt was released after posting bail, which had been set at $1 million.
According to a Daily Pilot article written around the time of the killing, a girlfriend found Gaskey’s body after he didn’t show up for work. Police at the time determined that he had been clubbed in the head and face with an unknown object, according to that news article, and ruled out robbery as a motive as the home had not been ransacked.
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