Broker Charged With 1980 Murder of Parents

David Boysen accused of shooting at point blank range

March 7, 2005

By PATRICK CROWLEY

No arrests were made at the time.

But last year police finally charged someone with couple’s murder — their son, a Los Angeles-area mortgage brokerage manager named David Andrew Boysen.

Boysen was charged in May with two counts of murder, Paul Levikow, a spokesman for the San Diego County District Attorney’s office, said in an interview with MortgageDaily.com.

“It was a cold case that we’ve recently reopened,” Levikow said.

Citing a gag order imposed by a San Diego County Superior Court judge neither the prosecutors nor Boysen’s lawyer, Danny Davis of Beverly Hills, are saying much about the case.

Boysen, 48, is being held in jail without bail. Levikow, who confirmed Boysen worked in the mortgage industry, said the name of the company is not in the official case file.

Davis hung up his cell phone before answering questions posed by MortgageDaily.com.

But court records indicate that while a judge has refused to dismiss the charges against Boysen, prosecutors are being told to prepare answers for what he wasn’t charged with in 1980.

Davis has argued in court filings that no new evidence linking his client to the murders have been discovered or admitted into court.

Levikow said because the case is still in court he could not answer any questions about the evidence nor release many details about the investigation.

But he did say that witnesses have testified in preliminary hearings held late last year that Boysen may have had a motive for the killings.

“People have said that at the time he may have been having some money problems and that he was upset that his parents had changed their will to leave all of their assets to their church,” Levikow said.

“That was described as a possible motive,” he said.

Police in Oceanside reopened the case in January of 2004, working with the district attorney’s new cold case unit.

The district attorney’s office has said little about why the case was reopened other than statements made by Boysen’s ex-wife and sister to police at the time of the murders incriminate him.

The North County Times has reported that in 1982 Boysen’s wife, from whom he had separated and has since divorced, told police she had lied when she initially told investigators that Boysen had been with her the night his parents were killed.

The paper quoted an investigator in the district attorney’s office.

Davis has filed papers saying the charges should be dismissed because of mistakes made at Boysen’s preliminary hearing. He has also argued that Boysen’s rights were violated because it took police more than two decades to charge him with the crimes.

Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty. If convicted Boysen faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, Levikow said.

Patrick Crowley is a political reporter and columnist and former business writer for The Cincinnati Enquirer. Email Patrick at: pcrowley@enquirer.com