Profile

Name: Sarkis Peltekian
Sex: Male
Race: Other
Age Now: 46
Height: 5'8\"
Weight: 200 lbs
Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown
Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown
Wanted for: UFAP ; Jul 02, 1993
Felony DUI, Long Beach, CA; Jul 02, 1993
Manslaughter (7 counts), Long Beach, CA; Jul 02, 1993

Locations

Last seen: Unkown
Possible location: Houston/Pasedena, TX Illinois Lebanon Glendale, CA Whittier, CA
Last known: Unkown

Traits

Born in Lebanon
Speaks fluent Arabic
Legal resident of the United States
Father of a 9-year old daughter
Wears fancy clothes
Enjoys fast cars
Drinks Budweiser beer
Has worked as car mechanic,tire and paint salesman

Case Story

Highway Of Horror

Maia Sanchez joined eight of her friends on the evening of July 1st, 1993, to do what thousands of kids in California did every night - head for the beach. They got there late - around 11:00 p.m. - so they couldn't stay long. But it was a warm summer night and there was plenty of laughter, some flirting, time to listen to the ocean, and feel the sand between their toes. After about an hour, they all piled back into the Mitsubishi pick-up they came in. Maia, who was just 16, sat in the front with the driver, Peter Hidalgo, 20, and another girl, Misty Marie Gray, 14. The rest of the group, six boys, Albert Castanon, 14, Gerry Lopez, 14, Freddy Guitierrez, 14, Victor Carsi, 18, David Frausto, 19, Jesus Chinkosky, 20, huddled in the bed of the truck. Maia promised her father she'd be home by 1:00 a.m., so they decided to take the Long Beach Freeway back home. They were on the freeway about fifteen minutes when a teal green Camaro passed them like a shot in the fast lane. But then came the loud sound of scraping metal. The Camaro careened against the freeway's center divider and fishtailed around. \"And I see these headlights coming straight at us, \" Maia later recalled, \"And they hit...\" The impact sent the truck skidding out of control and then, unbelievably, it jumped the guard rail and plummeted off the highway, 50 feet down onto a railroad yard below.

Blood On The Tracks

In an instant, a fun and carefree summer night was transformed into a hellish scene of blood and carnage. Bodies had landed everywhere - on train cars, on the rails, in the dirt. Inside the crushed cab of the truck, driver Peter Hidalgo and Maia Sanchez clung to life. They had both been wearing seatbelts. \"I woke up,\" Maia remembered, \"and I felt kind of swollen. Like everything was just aching...I was just lying there and I couldn't move. And I heard Peter calling for Misty...I felt really exhausted and really tired and I felt myself fall back and my eyes closed. And I thought, 'This is what it must feel like to die.'\" Police and paramedics quickly converged on what many of them would claim was the most horrific accident scene they could ever remember. As they went about their work searching for survivors, Maia lay seriously injured and in shock, going in and out of conscioiusness. \"I was laying down and a firefighter came over and asked someone who was sitting beside me if this one was alive? And I remember thinking that he's just being overdramatic.\" Sadly, he wasn't. All six boys in the bed of the truck had been hurled to their deaths. Misty, the girl sitting next to Maia in the truck, was not wearing her seatbelt and was thrown through the windsheild. Seven young lives snuffed out in an instant. Down in the railroad yard, Peter and Maia were pulled from the crushed vehicle and quickly taken to the hospital. Fifty feet above them, on the Long Beach Freeway from which they'd descended, another drama was taking place.

Road Rage

California Highway Patrol were on the scene and questioning the driver of the teal green Camaro. His name: Sarkis Peltekian. They noticed his red, glassy eyes and slurred speech. He claimed that another car hit him and caused him to spin out of control. He said he didn't remember hitting a pickup. Officials arrested him for suspicion of drunk driving and took  him to a hospital. At the time of the accident, Sarkis Peltekian was 32 years-old. He worked as a mechanic at the Grand Prix Auto and Tire Center in Glendale, California. Police say Peltekian also liked to take his Camaro and drag race on deserted streets. He didn't have a record, but according to officials, he was known to carry a gun - and liked to enjoy his favorite beer, Budweiser. After leaving work on July 1st, 1993, cops say Peltekian ate dinner and had a beer. When he got home, they say he had a few more. Then, officials say he went over to his parent's house and drank more beer. Finally, according to officials, he went to visit a friend, where more alcohol was consumed. A little before midnight, Peltekian headed home. But, he would soon find himself in the back of a police car, his beloved Camaro totaled, and seven young people killed. Tests revealed Peltekian's alcohol level to be .10 - two points above California's legal limit. But on July 3rd, his parents put their house up for bond, and Sarkis Peltekian walked free. Soon, he quit his job, left his apartment, and skipped his court date. Just like that, he was in the wind, and cops are looking for him still.