DNA Evidence Linked Bracamontes To Killing
POSTED: 7:39 am PST December 14, 2005
UPDATED: 11:26 am PST December 14, 2005
SAN DIEGO -- A man who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and suffocated a 9-year-old South Bay girl more than 14 years ago was sentenced to death Wednesday.
Manuel Bracamontes, 42, was convicted Sept. 2 of first-degree murder and special circumstances in the June 19, 1991, killing of Laura Arroyo. The same jury that found Bracamontes guilty recommended the death penalty -- a recommendation accepted by Superior Court Judge John Thompson.
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Bracamontes was arrested in October 2003 after a DNA match was made from sperm taken from the victim's body, Peed said.
"I didn't kill that girl," Bracamontes said in court Wednesday. "You guys resolved nothing."
Five witnesses testified they saw Bracamontes at the girl's condominium complex the night she disappeared. Until a week before her death, he had lived in a unit across the way with his then-girlfriend, Maggie Porter, whom he married while awaiting trial, and their children.
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