Herbert Mullin

Writing about Mullin is heavy, and I won't pretend otherwise. He killed thirteen people in early-1970s California while gripped by a delusion that the murders prevented earthquakes. I have zero interest in mythologizing him; what I sit with instead is the failure of a society to reach a severely mentally ill man before catastrophe. His case is a grim study in untreated psychosis and the gaps in mental-health care, and the only people who deserve remembrance here are his victims and their families. I record him soberly, as a cautionary chapter, nothing more.

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Name (English)

Herbert Mullin

Name (Japanese)

ハーバート・マリン

Reading

はーばーと・まりん

Born

April 18, 1947 – August 18, 2022

Origin

Salinas, California, United States

Height

175 cm

Occupation

serial killer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Mullin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1383283

Tags

• California
• serial killer

Last updated

September 25, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.