Crime Stopping: Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services supplies videotape to America's Most Wanted Marysville murder case has suspect linked to Sacramento restaurant murder and Riverside County murder attempt

Marysville detectives talk with homeowner Brandon Clark (left picture) outside his Freeman Street home early on the morning of March 18, after a friend, Timothy Michael Demastes was shot inside the home by a man who they barely knew. One of the witnesses to the shooting is interviewed in a patrol car (right picture).

Marysville officers and detectives inside the home (left picture) after homowner Brandon Clark (red shirt) talks to them about the shooting, which happened in a back bedroom. Video Stills by Ted Langdell ©2001

America's Most Wanted crew in Marysville, April 6

 

	As soundman Stan Chan (left) and cameraman Gib Randal (right) wait, America's Most Wanted Correspondent Pat Lalama checks a segment shot in front of a Marysville home that murder suspect Keshan "Snap" Mitchell alledgedly broke into and after shooting a teenager in a home a couple of blocks away.
Digital Still photo by Ted Langdell © 2001. Media may use in related stories with credit and advisory of use to Ted Langdell by e-mail via ted@tedlangdell.com. Click on picture to download 1,280 x 960 pixel @ 72dpi resolution photo.

Police and witnesses say Mitchell shot Timothy Michael Demastes in the home on Freeman Street, then fled on foot, and surprised an elderly couple inside their nearby home. He took cash and keys to a pickup parked outside, then fled in the truck, police say. The pickup was later found abandonded in Linda, about two and a half miles from the murder scene. 15 days later, Mitchell alledgedly shot a man at a Lyon's restaurant in Sacramento, and fled with two women in a Cadillac Esclade sport utility vehicle. He's also wanted for assaulting and shooting his girlfriend in the face and body in Riverside County. Police consider him armed, dangerous, and liable to get angry with very little provocation. America's Most Wanted airs the segment about Mitchell on Saturday, April 14 at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times. Marysville police will be standing by as the program airs in Northern California on Fox 40 (KTXL) in Sacramento, Fox 30 (KCVU) Chico, and Fox 2 (KTVU) San Francisco. It is the second time Langdell has supplied footage to the Fox network crime-stopper program. After learning of the search for a missing Yuba City boy as the search was being organized, he provided footage of Michael Lyons and his parents to Sacramento television stations before the Yuba City youngster's body was discovered in the Feather River bottoms a mile or so from Lyons's home. More recently, he provided stations with exclusive video interviews of slain Grass Valley restaurant manager Mike Markle's mother, his former wife and of the somber scene and stunned patrons at the Yuba City Lyon's restaurant where Markle had worked before being transferred to the chain's Grass Valley location. "That was pretty tough, since Mike was a student in my ROP Radio-TV class at Marysville High, and I know Margie Markle from covering the Marysville Unified School Board where she's a trustee," Langdell says. "My wife and I were waited on by Mike early Christmas morning. What a shock!" When the 1997 Willams fire hit the Yuba County foothills, Langdell was the first news person on the scene. "ABC opened its Sunday night broadcast with shots of flames on both sides of Marysville Road that I took with the camera one hand, and the other on the wheel." It also used portions of an interview with (then) Yuba County Sheriff Gary Tindel, as he described how he and deputies almost got caught in the fire while trying to get people to evacuate. "As he talks, you see the fire coming over the ridgelines in the background, consuming more acres, homes and businesses." A Yuba-Sutter resident since 1965, Langdell operates a media production, advertising and marketing business in Marysville. His news background includes stints as a radio and television reporter and cameraman at the State Capitol in Sacramento and with a number of Sacramento radio and television stations.

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