An Orange County man gets life in prison for murdering four women in Anaheim and Santa Ana beginning in 2013.
Franc Cano, who with an accomplice abducted and killed several women in Anaheim and Santa Ana while on sex-offender probation, pleaded guilty to murder Thursday after prosecutors dropped their call for the death penalty.
It has been nearly a decade since Cano, 36, embarked on a five-month series of murders with his companion, Steven Gordon. Their targets were women working in street prostitution in Anaheim and Santa Ana. Her body was never found. Nor was the body of a second woman, Josephine Monique Vargas, 34, who vanished 18 days later. Nor was the body of a third, Martha Anaya, 27, who disappeared 19 days after that.
His accomplice, Steven Gordon, went to trial in 2016 and insisted on representing himself, describing Cano as a predator with no conscience and referring to him alternately as “my friend” and “that little bastard.”When a young woman’s body is found at a trash-sorting plant, Anaheim homicide Det. Julissa Trapp embarks on a relentless quest for answers.
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