People v. Parker
California Supreme Court
1Opinion of the CourtWerdegar, J.
*1187 Gerald Parker, nicknamed the "Bedroom Basher" by the media in the late 1970s for a string of unsolved home-invasion rape murders *1188 in Orange County, was convicted by a jury of the first degree murders of Sandra Fry, Kimberly Rawlins, Marolyn Carleton, Chantal Green, Debora Kennedy, and Debra Senior (Pen. Code §§ 187, subd. (a), 189 ) 1 with the special circumstances of multiple murder and murder during the attempted commission or commission of the crimes of rape and burglary (§ 190.2, subd. (a)(3), (17)(C), (G)). The jury returned a verdict of death, and the court imposed judgment…
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