Overview
- The jury also found a multiple-murder enhancement true, and Perez now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, with sentencing set for April 6.
- Perez was additionally convicted of assault on a child under eight causing injury likely to result in death.
- Prosecutors said the killings occurred between 1992 and 2001 in multiple Central and Northern California counties, and all victims were under six months old.
- The investigation began with a 2007 discovery of a one-month-old’s remains in a cooler in Conway Slough near Woodland, with DNA later identifying the child as Nikko Lee Perez.
- Several siblings’ remains have not been recovered, and authorities arrested Perez in January 2020 days before his scheduled release from state prison as the case advanced.