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Steven Dean Gordon, the homeless sex offender who was convicted last year of murdering four women in Orange County, was sentenced to death Friday for his crimes.
I wondered why he wanted the death penalty, but then after reading a bit about Cali's death row, it seems he has been inducted into the bad boy hall of fame. Now he has his twisted legacy and a ticket to years of appeals. If I were a CA taxpayer I'd be pi$$ed. What a mess.
"You're missing one."
That's how Detective Julissa Trapp of the Anaheim Police Department said she first learned that Steven Gordon might have one more victim. One she never knew existed.
Detective Trapp was investigating the death of 21-year-old Jarrae Estepp. Her body had been found at an Anaheim trash facility on March 14, 2014. After a month-long investigation, Gordon was arrested in connection with the murder. When Trapp interviewed Steven Gordon, she suspected he had killed three other women too: Kianna Jackson, Josephine "Monique" Vargas, and Martha Anaya. During the course of a 13-hour interview, Gordon confessed to murdering all four women, who had been working as prostitutes in Orange County, California.
He claimed he worked with a partner named Franc Cano. Cano has pleaded not guilty is awaiting trial.
Gordon told Detective Trapp something else in that police interview. There was one more victim -- a Jane Doe.
There’s an unsourced comment that Cano has a pretrial hearing scheduled for 29 April 2022, but I haven’t been able to verify it on the Orange County Superior Court’s site.
(Of course, maybe it’s being held elsewhere, but Gordon was tried in OCSC, so assuming.)