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Three California Highway Patrol officers who were arrested on Friday were linked to the murder of a car thief after allegedly helping with the cover up, alongside a prominent criminal defense attorney and his family and two liquor store owners.Officers Walter Wells, Scott McFarlane and Eduardo Quintanar Jr are all accused of having a hand in the elaborate cover up, as all three shared a friendship with the suspects.In the case that has rocked the city of Turlock, defense attorney Frank Carson, 60, was charged with the first-degree murder of 26-year-old Korey Kauffman, who disappeared from his hometown of Modesto three years ago.Kauffman, a known scrap metal thief, was allegedly shot dead while trying to steal an antique car from Carson's house in March 2012, according to a police affidavit obtained by DailyMail.com.Carson, his wife, Georgia Defilippo, 63, daughter, Christina Defilippo, 36, Wells, McFarlane Quintanar and two liquor store owners were arrested in Turlock on Friday.A ninth suspect, Robert Lee Woody, was arrested and charged with murder in the case last year.The tangled web surrounding the death of Korey Kauffman is reminiscent of HBO's True Detective, set in the fictitious Californian town of Vinci, where small-town politicians and corrupt police conspire to cover-up the death of a local businessman. The three highway patrol officers appeared to have close ties with the liquor store owners, Baljit Athwal and Daljit Atwal, who each face murder charges.Wells, an officer with California Highway Patrol’s Merced office at the time of the investigation, had invested $10,000 into the brothers’ business.
