California sex offender found guilty of murdering 4 women
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Jurors took just an hour Thursday to convict a California sex offender of killing four women — crimes that were mostly committed while he was being tracked by GPS and that now make him eligible for a death sentence.
Victims’ relatives clutched hands in the Orange County courtroom and closed their eyes while the guilty verdicts against Steven Dean Gordon were read. Some trembled and some cried.
“I can’t say it’s justice but it’s peace. It’s a little bit of peace,” Jodi Estepp, the mother of victim Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, told The Associated Press outside the courtroom.
Gordon himself showed no emotion in court.