Opinion ID: 1365990
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: The Prior Uncharged Murders.

Text: In April 1980 the bodies of two unidentified teenage girls were found in an orchard near Bakersfield in Kern County, about 100 miles south of Fresno. Both had been recently shot in the head. One of the victims had been bound at the wrists and ankles. The other was partially clad and was unbound. The latter victim showed signs of recent sexual activity; sperm and semen were found in the victim's vagina and rectum. Pubic hairs found on a nylon jacket near the body were indistinguishable from defendant's. A bullet fragment recovered at the scene was incontrovertedly shown to have been fired from the revolver belonging to defendant's girlfriend Cathy Lozano. Tire tracks near one of the bodies, while they could not have been left by defendant's truck, were not inconsistent with Lozano's car. Evidence from defendant's time cards showed that he was working in Fresno on the dates the killings had to have occurred. It would have been possible, however, for him to drive from Fresno to the Bakersfield area and back again between clocking out on one of the two nights in question and clocking back in the next day. Lozano was outside the state at that time, with her car but without her revolver, which she believed to be in defendant's possession. [7]