The leading cause of death among death row inmates in California is natural causes.
Well good riddance.
Another one bites the dust.
How much was spent trying to keep him alive?
It all began in Sept. 1984 when Maureen Bautista threatened to inform the police of her boyfriend's methamphetamine laboratory in Shandon, California. Fearing that his narcotics operation would be discovered, Garceau stabbed Bautista to death. He also murdered her 14-year-old son, Telesforo, because he witnessed his mothers death.
Six months later, the bodies were found stuffed in a bedroom dresser that had been buried under concrete in the backyard of Greg Rambo, one of Garceau's drug-dealing partners.
By that time, Rambo had also been slain.
In 1985, a jury in Monterey County convicted Garceau of killing Rambo and he was given a sentence of 33-years-to-life for that homicide. Then a separate jury was convened in Bakersfield during that same year in the slaying of the Bautistas, the crime for which Garceau received the death sentence.
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Maureen Bautista and her 14-year-old son Telesforo were stabbed to death in September 1984. Six months later, Susan Rambo—the widow of a drug dealer who had been recently murdered himself—led police to the corpses which were buried in her backyard.
Garceau was convicted of murdering Greg Rambo, who had allegedly helped him bury the Bautistas, and sentenced to 33 years to life imprisonment. Prosecutors then introduced evidence of the Rambo murder at Garceau’s trial for the Bautista murders.
They also presented testimony from Susan Rambo—under grant of immunity—that she helped dig the hole in her backyard, where a dresser containing the Bautistas’ bodies was buried. Several other prosecution witnesses were implicated in covering up the Bautista murders or the Rambo murder, or in the drug business.
I do love waking up to a story with a happy ending.
Thanks. Ahh, lovely day pending.
This is why the Death sentence is not a deterrent. too many of them are never carried out.
Criminal , murderers who receive the death sentence should get an automatic appeal,within 6 months. That appeal held in another jurisdiction preferably where they know little about the crime committed. Upon a conviction in that appeal they should die within 7 days.
Waste of taxpayers' money, all those years. But good riddance to the subhuman POS, anyway.
I hope it hurt
This is probably how Scott Peterson will die. If he'd never murdered Lacy, he'd probably have a larger chance of being killed in an auto accident some time in the next 30 years than he has of being executed now. The one good thing about a California death sentence is that it more effectively keeps a murderer in prison for the rest of his natural life than any "life without parole" sentence can.