country states conviction birth_place birth_date victims article_title name apprehended
united states california guilty tarzana , california 1937 one robert peernock
 robert peernock september 1987
robert peernock

robert john peernock -lrb- born c. 1937 -rrb- , from the los angeles district of tarzana , is an american convicted for the murder of his wife , claire laurence peernock , and for the attempted murder of his daughter , natasha peernock , on july 22 , 1987 .
peernock was a former pyrotechnics engineer and california state employee with the department of water resources who claimed he was framed because he was about to publish a book exposing state corruption .
