Franc Cano, 36, was sentenced to life in prison for his connection to the kidnapping, rape and murder of four Orange County women back in 2013 and 2014.
A serial sex offender who killed four Orange County women was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday.
After his defense team reveled"mitigating factors" during trial, prosecutors dropped their search for capital punishment. Cano then pled guilty on Thursday. Steven Dean Gordon, 53, a co-defendant of Cano's in the case, was convicted of the same killings in 2016 and sentenced to death in 2017. To this day, authorities have been unable to locate the bodies of Vargas, Jackson and Anaya. The discovery of Estepp's body led detectives to a number of clues that connected Cano and Gordon to the other murders.
Hasse said that Cano was born into a"close-knit working class" family in Compton. He noted that he was Roman Catholic, then Jehovah's Witness before reverting back to Catholicism.
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