James “Jimmy” Hughes [of Jimmy Hughes Ministries in Honduras] had been charged with murder and conspiracy in the deaths of Ralph Arthur Boger, 42, Patricia Roberta Castro, 44, and Fred Alfred Alvarez, 32, who was vice chairman of the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians Tribal Council. They were found dead July 1, 1981, at 35-040 Bob Hope Drive in Rancho Mirage.

But Deputy Attorney General Mike Murphy told Riverside Superior Court Judge Dale R. Wells that prosecutors “have lost confidence to proceed in the prosecution in this case.”

Murphy said the attorney general’s office came across new information while investigating the 29-year-old case.

“We have done our best to search out all the files (and) found some more evidence that the sheriff’s department didn’t have,” he said. “We also developed new information that was not known to law enforcement prior to (the filing of charges).”

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