Sandra Velasco, 52, was killed in June 2017 — soon after a domestic violence incident involving her estranged husband
LOS ANGELES — A man was convicted Monday of the first-degree murder of his estranged wife,in Granada Hills nearly five years ago.
The coroner’s office could not determine how the woman died, but the prosecution believes she was stabbed, given the discovery of a knife with the victim’s blood on it and a large amount of blood in the back seat of her car, according to Deputy District Attorney John McKinney. She had also suffered blunt force trauma resulting in a skull fracture, according to the prosecutor.
Of his then-missing wife, Veloz told his aunt that he wanted to get his wife’s benefits through the U.S. Postal Service, where she was a longtime employee, McKinney told jurors. Those statements didn’t “prove what his state of mind was when Sandra died in that hallway,” the defense attorney told the panel.
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