A 48-year-old man has made a guilty plea in a terrifying Shasta County throat slashing case. On August 16th of 2019, Chad Ryan Kaufman went into a woman’s home on Happy Valley Road, beat her up, kidnapped her and took her out into the bushes, where he tried to rape her, stabbed her multiple times and slit her throat twice, nearly killing her. When deputies arrived the victim had regained consciousness and described her attacker, who she did not know. Kaufman, who was on parole, was picked up and the victim positively identified him. Kaufman entered a guilty plea last week in a deal that will get him a sentence of 21 years in prison.
-Steve Gibson