Parkview Community Reacts To Neighbor’s Body Found

A murder in a Palm Springs senior mobile home community left neighbors confused and afraid to talk.

“I don’t know what the circumstances are. I’m just scared,” neighbor Heine Stanhope said.

“We just have the regular little break-ins, you know, things missing off the porches. Having it escalate to this extreme, I think a lot of us should be upset,” neighbor Matthew Blanchard said.

Neighbors say the victim lived in the Parkview mobile home community, yet police found his body 20 miles away in Sky Valley on Sunday, on the side of Rudder Row Lane.

“I think for the Coachella Valley as a whole, it’s a normal thing when someone gets murdered they are removed from their place and taken to the desert hoping suspicion will be taken off of them.”

Police arrested 45-year-old Jason William Brokken Monday in connection with the murder.

A close family friend who lived with the victim says he was Ken Moody. The friend describes the suspect as a transient who stayed at different homes in the community. Neighbors say Moody was 75 years old.

“He was a wonderful man. Just the kindest man, and he became a friend a long time ago,” Stanhope said.

They also say they think something was wrong.

“He once said, Ken, that he could not understand why things were going on for him,” Stanhope added.

“I just know the people he had in there were unsavory, were not the type of people I would have in my house,” Blanchard said.

The sheriff’s department hasn’t released any motives, but one neighbor says he has an idea.

“Money is the only thing I can think of. Because Ken was well off,” Stanhope pointed out.

Investigation continues, and neighbors remain shaken.

“It’s scary, when that could happen. And when I’m anxious, I’m even more scared. I’m afraid to live here now,” Stanhope said. “I didn’t believe it. That’s what got me in shock and fear. That, if he’s the one that did it, which is so difficult for me to think that somebody could kill somebody.”

Brokken was booked into the county jail in Indio, on $1 million bail.