Yesterday during a court appointed hearing before San Diego County Superior Court Judge Richard Monroe, Carlsbad Police Detective Josh Bubnis told the judge that DNA, flip flops, and surveillance footage are the three crucial pieces of evidence that led the Carlsbad police to arrest a 17-year-old boy in the death of 68-year-old Lisa Thorborg.

San Diego County Superior Court Judge Richard Monroe released the 17-year-old suspect’s name. Due to the 17-year-old suspect being a 17-year-old suspect whose case remains in juvenile court, I’ll let y’all know who he is after the state moves the case over to adult court.

On November 23, 2020, Lisa Thorborg was stabbed to death during a hike on Hosp Grove Trail in Carlsbad, California. The police found the teen suspect’s DNA on the back of Lisa Thorborg’s shorts. His flip-flops were located approximately 20 feet away from her body, and he was seen running shirtless, up and down the Hosp Grove Trail, on his way to folks’ houses where the police say the camera footageshowed him trying to break into folks’ cars.

Needless to say, all of the evidence led the police to take the time last Monday to arrest the 17-year-old boy while he was chillaxing on one of the local beaches.

The boy’s lawyer, Debbie Kirkwood, believes the state is picking at a bean less stalk because they don’t have anyone else to pin the tail of the donkey on. “That’s his habit and custom. That is why he is there. He’s not there to stab old ladies in the neck,” is what Terri Figueroa of The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Attorney Debbie Kirkwood as saying about the state’s evidence against her client. Attorney Debbie Kirkwood went on to let everybody know that she doesn’t believe the DNA evidence passes the smell test because it is just 11% of the DNA from the area that was swab and the DNA was found on the back of Lisa Thorborg’s shorts; which, to Attorney Debbie Kirkwood, suggest that her client and Lisa Thorborg sat down on the same log whenever they stopped to rest.

The police obtained the boy’s DNA from the table where he was questioned and then matched it to the DNA on the back of Lisa Thorborg’s shorts.

It is not clear why the teen allegedly stabbed Lisa Thorborg. There aren’t the usual clues like a stolen purse, money, credit cards, or any indication of sexual assault. He just allegedly stabbed her for what appears to be no reason at all; which will increase his chances of getting the adult treatment the state gives to juveniles such as himself.

Under California’s law, section 707, the prosecutor can make a request to have a juvenile’s case moved to adult court if the juvenile has been charged with murder. The court may take certain factors, like a juvenile’s behavior, into consideration whenever deciding whether to move the juvenile’s case from juvenile court to adult court.

Unfortunately for the 17-year-old fella, his suspension from school in Oregon for fighting and his running away from boarding school in Hawaii paints a picture of a little devil in carne who’ll do better by living his lifetime out in a correctional facility.

Lisa Thorborg was a widow who, during May of this year, moved from Oregon to live with her daughter and her family.

The 17-year-old suspect has lived in several states which include Oregon, Hawaii, and now California; which he arrived to in September of this year.

The 17-year-old boy is living with his maternal-grandmother in California. The grandmother says she hasn’t had any trouble out of him and that everyone “met him says what a nice, polite young man he is.”

The state, though, would beg to differ because they know that “nice, polite young” men don’t try to break into folks’ cars or end up in a situation whereby their DNA is found on the back of an old woman’s shorts. Those things don’t happen to “nice, polite young” men who have never ran away from school or been suspended for fighting in school. “Nice, polite young” men don’t do those things, there. No sir, unh-unh.

The 17-year-old suspect in the killing of 68-year-old Lisa Thorborg is, however, a “nice, polite young” man who has gotten himself in a situation whereby his alleged act of committing the world’s oldest and most deadliest of sins could very well lead to him living his life out in a prison cell.