On Oct. 15, 1981, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office went to the residence of 30-year-old Sonia Carmen Herok Stone in Monterey County, California. She had been murdered. Ms. Stone was a single mother, living alone with her young daughter and worked as a merchandizer for Levi Strauss Company at the time of her death.
Detectives worked the case and soon identified a suspect, Michael Scott Glazebrook, who was 25 years old at the time and Stone’s neighbor. The case went to trial in 1983 and resulted in a hung jury. As a result, the District Attorney’s Office decided not to retry the case.
In late 2020, detectives at the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office and Deputy District Attorney Matt L’Heureux re-examined the Stone case. They soon discovered that there were several pieces of evidence in the case file that could likely be tested using modern DNA technology. The items were sent to the Department of Justice DNA lab for testing. Detectives also obtained a search warrant for a new sample of Glazebrook’s DNA. Glazebrook was not hard to find as he still lives and works in Monterey County.
Earlier this month we were informed that evidence from the Stone crime scene was a match to Glazebrook’s DNA profile. Last week, detectives conducted surveillance at Glazebrook’s residence in the City of Seaside. At about 8p.m., he drove away from his home. Glazebrook was stopped and taken into custody without incident. The now 65-year-old suspect was booked into the Monterey County Jail on a warrant for murder and his bail was set at $1,000,000.
In honor of Stone, all detectives wore Levi’s Jeans during the operation to arrest Glazebrook. Anyone with information about the Stone case or Michael Glazebrook is asked to call Detective Arras Wilson at 831-755-7203 or Detective Sergeant Bryan Hoskins at 831-755-3773.
Republished courtesy of Monterey County Sheriff's Office.