A Torrance man pleaded no contest Monday to rape and murder in the deaths of a teen girl and a young woman about eight months apart in 2011. The plea from Geovanni Borjas, 38, opens him to possibility of a life prison sentence without parole. Borjas pleaded no contest to two counts each of first-degree murder and forcible rape, along…
Guzman had been reported missing a month earlier. She left her home in Lincoln Heights the day after Christmas to go to a store but never returned.
Police initially did not believe the two killings were related. But Beck said detectives were eventually able to connect the crimes and requested permission from the state Attorney General's Office to perform a familial DNA search. The case marked the second time Los Angeles police had relied on a familial DNA search, which can narrow the search for a suspect to a particular family and point detectives to suspects whose DNA is not yet in a database. Beck noted that Borjas' DNA was not in any existing database prior to hisThe LAPD also used familial DNA in the ``Grim Sleeper'' serial killer case, in which detectives used a discarded pizza crust to collect DNA linking the killings to Lonnie David Franklin Jr.
Borjas faces a possible sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Prosecutors were originally seeking the death penalty in the case, but that punishment wasCopyright CNS - City News Service
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