Michael Bernard Lewis
Facts of the Crime:
Sentenced to death in Riverside County on May 1, 1998 for killing Patricia Miller, of Moreno Valley, on August 2, 1991. Miller's daughter, then 13, discovered her mother's body on the living room floor of her apartment. Miller's throat was slashed after she had been strangled to unconsciousness and raped. The link to Lewis came through DNA evidence. Prosecutors said Lewis probably killed Miller after he raped her to keep her from reporting the crime and sending him back to prison. Lewis previously had served two years in prison for raping and choking a Venice woman who survived the attack and identified him to police.
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