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    James Winslow Dixon, Jr. - California Death Row


    Christina Burmeister




    Facts of the Crime:

    Sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on May 2, 2008 for the slitting the throat of 20-year-old Christina Burmeister of Cerritos in the mountains above Azusa on August 18, 2001.

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    James Dixon Sentenced to Death

    POMONA, Calif. (AP) -- A death sentence was handed down Friday for one of three defendants convicted of the 2001 murder of a Cal Poly Pomona student who was abducted on her way to a fraternity party.

    James Winslow Dixon Jr., 35, was convicted in March of first-degree murder for the killing of 20-year-old Christina Burmeister of Cerritos, who was found dead in her pickup truck -- her throat slit -- in the mountains above Azusa on Aug. 18, 2001.

    Henry Arnold Singer, 29, and Dixon's wife Markeisha, 26, both pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and were previously sentenced to 25 years to life in state prison.

    The victim was last seen alive the day before her body was found. According to investigators, she had stopped to buy cigarettes in Pomona before she was kidnapped near a Holt Avenue fraternity house.

    She was kept face-down in the backseat of her truck as the trio forced her to reveal her banking information. Her abductors then drained her account and drove her into the mountains, ignoring her pleas for mercy.

    James Dixon is believed to have wielded the knife on the victim. DNA taken from a cigar butt found in or near her truck tied the career criminal to the crime, sheriff's Detective Philip Guzman said in 2005.

    Jurors found true the special circumstance allegations of murder during a robbery and murder during a kidnapping, and also convicted Dixon of raping two women in July 1996. It took the Pomona Superior Court panel less than a day to reach its death penalty recommendation.

    Surveillance video from a Washington Mutual automated teller machine in Montclair showed a hooded woman believed to be Markeisha Dixon using Burmeister's ATM card to make three withdrawals -- two for $100 and one for $200.

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    Dixon's direct appeal has been fully briefed before the California Supreme Court since January 29, 2015.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S163417

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