A man who pleaded guilty for murdering a young lady in 1995 whose corps was discovered in San Marcos was sentenced to life in jail without the prospect of parole in a trial on Friday.  

Michael Eddie Williams, 37, was pronounced guilty in the strangling death of Shannon Conway, an 18-year-old homeless woman from Los Angeles who had been making her home along the Ocean Beach area. He pleaded guilty last month in Vista Superior Court to murder in the first-degree and said that he killed her during a rape. 

Conway’s unclothed body was discovered on July 30, 1995, by an embankment off Craven Road, just west of Twin Oaks Valley Road.

Williams is ordered to continue a 40-year prison sentence in Mississippi until he has served the sentence fully. He is already sentenced to serve in a previous case  for sexually abusing a child before he can start serving his prison for life sentence, prosecutors inform. 

Initially, another man was taken into custody who was thought to be linked to the murder, but charges against him were dropped. DNA tests revealed that the semen from the scene were not compatible with that suspect’s. The blood examined in his van also did not belong to Conway. 

Following the closing and reopening of the case, investigators came to find a match to the DNA from the scene, which ended up being William’s mach. He was sent to the San Diego County jail in December.

Sheriff’s detectives have taken a 21-year-old man from Campo into custody who is believed to be linked to the death of his 4-month-old baby girl, authorities reported Tuesday.

Luis Alberto Duran is charged with assault against his daughter, Imalla Duran, who was killed in the attack on Friday, stated sheriff’s homicide Lt. Dennis Brugos.

Deputies and paramedics received a call from the baby’s grandmother’s home located on Campo Truck Trail when the baby did not have a pulse. Imalla was declared to be dead at the scene. Her body did not reveal  that she had suffered serious blows, and detectives were unable to find evidence of an assault at that instant, Brugos said.

An autopsy carried out on Saturday showed that she had undergone mysterious trauma that was not explained in the family’s reports on the incident, Brugos added. The source of her death has not been made known by authorities.

The baby’s father was taken into custody on Monday on charges of assault in the murder of his daughter. He was being detained in San Diego jail without bail. He is set to stand trial in El Cajon Superior Court on Wednesday.

A jury found a 30-year-old man accused of beating his mother to death guilty of the crime. The man murdered his mother at her home in Alpine just a few days before Christmas in 2008.

John Nicholas Gunther was found guilty on  Friday of first-degree murder in the death of Dixie Lee Larson in her home on Spring Oaks Road.

She was beat to death, prosecutors reported, Gunther is set to receive his sentence on July 15.

Prosecutors informed the jury that in the weeks prior to the murder, Gunther had informed others that he intended had said that in the weeks before the killing that Gunther had told others he wanted to kill Larson. Gunther was back and forth in rehab programs for drug issues and when his mother came to the point where she told he he was not allowed to live in her home.

That upset him greatly as reported in a preliminary hearing when he commented on the death of his mother.

A man murdered in his apartment last week has been recognized as 54-year-old Nick Alfaro, the Medical Examiner’s Office reported Monday.

Officers received a report to come to the Centre City Manor apartments located on Fourth Avenue near Ash Street Wednesday after the manager discovered his body located on the first-floor studio. According to friends and family, he was not spotted for a couple days, San Diego police Lt. Ernie Herbert said. An autopsy revealed Alfaro passed away from severe blows to the head. 

Homicide investigators kept searching for possible suspects and were talking to people in the area who may have seen or heard suspicious activity, Herbert added.  

Alfaro used to be a champion boxer from the Tucson area in the 1970s and 1980s, family members reported. He was a resident of San Diego for the last ten years.

Sheriff’s investigators are asking for the public’s assistance in order to find and identify the man guilty of throwing a deadly punch during a brawl in front of Cardiff bar last month that resulted in the death of a 24-year-old Marine.

Over eight men are thought to have had a role in the fight that started after they left Yogi’s Beach Bar and Restaurant on South Coast Highway 101 around 2 a.m. Feb. 27.

Thomas Elliott was discovered unconscious in a parking lot in front of Ki’s Restaurant and between Yogi’s and Kraken Bar and Restaurant, sheriff’s Detective Kurt Cartie stated.

Elliott, was a current Marine, passed away in a hospital March 6.

Sheriff’s officials report that in the middle of the brawl, in which there were multiple military members, Elliott was socked in the face and knocked unconscious. He dropped to the ground and struck his head on the pavement. He was put on life support but never became conscious again.

Cartie reported that officials were unsure about the events leading up to the brawl. “Everybody was drinking,” he informed.

He added that he is hoping witnesses will take a risk and converse with investigators.

Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (888) 580-8477 or send e-mail or text messages to sdcrimestoppers.com. Officials are offering up to $1,000 for information that leads to an arrest in the case.

A man from Bonita was sentenced to serve a year in prison and put on probation Friday after he was found guilty of conspiracy to obstruct justice for lying to authorities in the mist of a murder investigation.

Maxwell Corn, 26, was declared guilty in October 2009 for lying to authorities who were looking into the murder of a woman and her baby son in order to help his friend out, who was found guilty of first-degree murder.

Corn’s friend, Dennis Potts, was found guilty in a different trial in which he choked 22-year-old Tori Vienneau and her 10-month-old son to death.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Bernard Revak had demanded that the state Department of Corrections assess Corn before deciding whether to sentence him to another three years in jail or give him probation. There was no evidence that Corn had a role in the murders.

The victims were discovered on July 26, 2006, in an apartment located on South 45th Street in Southcrest where Vienneau and her child had been living.

A little before her murder, Vienneau had asked Potts to take a paternity test to find out whether he was the father of her child. He consented to the test, but sent in Corn’s biological information and evidence to a lab instead of his own, so the result revealed that Potts was not the father of the child.

A man found guilty for battering his ex-girlfriend and lighting her on fire was sentenced to serve  17 years plus a life term in prison Friday.

Todd Wimler was found guilty of attempted murder, arson, aggravated mayhem, spousal abuse and other charges in an incident on  Dec. 6, 2008, incident at a mobile home on Japatul Road near Lyons Valley Road near Alpine.

At a preliminary hearing in April, victim Deborah Carr reported that she had been dating Wimler on and off for two years. She went to see him at his trailer when he attacked her.

He beat her, drenched her legs in flammable liquid and set both her and the trailer on fire.

She lived, but she was severely burned as a result that doctors placed her in a coma for a duration of time and she needed skin grafts to cover her burns.

Wimler is to serve the 17-year sentence first and then the life term afterward. He will not have the option of parole as he serves the life term for seven years.

A preliminary hearing date has been scheduled for August 4 for the registered sex offender who is the suspect in the death of 17-year-old Chelsea King.

The preliminary hearing for John Albert Gardner III was originally set to take place on March 18, but his attorneys pressed for a later date.

Judge David Danielsen also confirmed a gag order not allowing attorneys and participants in the case from spilling any information about the trial regarding evidence that may be used or ongoing research having to do with Gardner.

Gardner, who entered a not guilty plea in the death of the young teen, arrived at his court date in San Diego Superior Court Dept. 12 for today’s readiness hearing. He remains detained without the possibility of bail.

Video streaming of the status conference hearing has been finished and is available.

A man who was found guilty of stabbing two people, one of which was his former wife, was sentenced to serve 21 years plus a life term in jail as of Monday.

Miguel Delvalle, 49, was found guilty of attempted murder in a San Diego court in February.

Lawywers argued that Delvalle confronted his ex-wife at a market locatted on Ocean View Boulevard in Mountain View on April 21. She was with her fiance during the encounter.

He stabbed the man numerous times before running after his ex-wife and attacking her with a knife as well in the neck and ace. Witnesses report that he shouted threats of murder at her.

Prosecutor Dan Link debated to the jury that the attack was motivated by jealousy or intense anger. Jurors found  him guilty of one charge of premeditated attempted murder and another of attempted murder, as well as charges of causing severe body injury.

Link stated that Delvalle will first serve the 21-year sentence and then start the life term next. He will not be faced with the possibility of parole until seven years of his life sentence have been completed.

Police on Wednesday were looking into a case of vandalism in which the Rancho Bernardo home of the mother and stepfather of the man arrested in connection with the disappearance of Chelsea King was tagged with spray paint. 

Police reported that graffiti was found on the garage door of the town home located on Matinal Road around 5:39 a.m. Police Sgt. Ray Battrick reported that the tag said, “Chelseas blood is on you” and “Move out.”

John Albert Gardner III, 30, is set to stand trial on Wednesday afternoon. His mother and stepfather are residents in the townhouse, which is located by the park where a body thought to be Chelsea’s was discovered in a shallow grave Tuesday afternoon.

Gardner was taken into custody on Sunday after he was believed to be the murderer and rapist in Chelsea’s death. 

Two men covered the tag with graffiti shortly after. Television news crews caught a loud  argument between the two men, who informed reporters that they were not residents in the area but were getting rid of the graffiti as an act of public service, and an upset neighbor who told them to get out of the neighborhood.