Overview
- A Chula Vista jury convicted 48-year-old Eduardo Magana of second-degree murder in November, and a judge on Tuesday imposed a 15-years-to-life sentence.
- Superior Court Judge Timothy Walsh called Magana’s actions “horrific, calculated, (and) perverse” and imposed the maximum term allowed.
- Prosecutors say Alexis Berenice Guadarrama Orozco, 33, met Magana at the Star Motel in Otay Mesa on July 15, and all contact from her stopped the next day.
- Surveillance captured Magana loading a large, heavy object into his car trunk early July 16; he was arrested three days later in Bell Gardens.
- Authorities say her remains are believed to be in Southern California, and the DA and San Diego police urge tips to the SDPD Homicide Unit or Crime Stoppers.