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    Why street racing murder charges in LA often don't stick

    by Nicole Santa Cruz and James Queally, Los Angeles Times Dec 26, 2018 6 minutes

    LOS ANGELES - Natalie Volkoff and her son were driving home from a church youth event when they saw two cars approaching fast in the opposite direction.

    One of the cars lost control, sending the other spinning over the center divider and into the driver's side of Volkoff's gray Honda.

    After the crash, Volkoff's son, Alex, then 11, looked at the driver's seat. His mother was motionless. Blood dripped from her mouth.

    Authorities said the cars involved in the December 2016 crash that killed Volkoff, 41, had been racing at up to 113 mph.

    The two men arrested in Volkoff's death initially were charged with murder. Nearly two years later, Corey Kiefer and Jacob Zamora, both 24, pleaded no contest to felony vehicular manslaughter and were sentenced to six years in prison, the maximum term.

    Since 2009, authorities in Los Angeles County have made arrests in more than half the cases where street racing was suspected in a fatal car crash. But those rarely have led to significant

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