The State - News from April 23, 1987

A handyman was arrested in Sacramento and charged with six murders between last June and this week after two bodies were found buried in the backyard of his former residence, police said. Investigators also have discovered indications of further burial sites near homes where Morris Solomon Jr. of Sacramento worked, Sgt. Bob Burns said. Solomon, 43, was charged with six counts of homicide. Police said that Solomon himself reported the discovery of the first of the bodies, that of a woman found in the closet of a home he was renovating. Two of the other victims were found buried in the yards of Solomon’s previous homes.