Timothy Lee DePriest
Summary of Offense:
Timothy Lee DePriest kidnapped Hong Thi Nguyen, 23, of Garden Grove on December 17, 1989, and shot her to death when she resisted his efforts to rape her. Prosecutors argued that DePriest grabbed Nguyen out of her car as she left work, tried to rape her, then shot her and left her half-naked body near a trash bin.
DePriest was sentenced to death in Orange County on May 27, 1994.
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