Reporting from Sacramento -- Closing a chapter on one of Los Angeles' most infamous crimes, the state parole board Tuesday rejected the final bid for the release of "Onion Field" killer Gregory Powell, whose 1963 kidnapping and murder of a police officer shocked the city and shattered the myth of th
Gregory Powell, 77, has terminal cancer and is serving a life sentence for kidnapping police officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger in 1963. He fatally shot Campbell in an onion field near Bakersfield, while Hettinger escaped. He did not attend the hearing in Sacramento.