Jeanette Elias
Steve Carl Evans
Summary of Offense:
Sentenced to death in Orange County on January 9, 2009 in the August 19, 2003 murder of 24-year-old Jeannette Elias. She had been stabbed more than 22 times, but authorities just stopped counting the wounds at that number. Three of the wounds were fatal. Evans was convicted on July 22, 2008 of first-degree murder and the special circumstance allegations of murder during attempted rape and during sexual penetration with a foreign object by force. He was also convicted of attempted forcible rape and sexual penetration by a foreign object by force. He assaulted the woman and tried to rape her before stabbing her with several knives, including a meat cleaver and a butcher knife. The victim was found fully clothed, but her hard plastic driver's license was found folded into fifths inside her vagina, and DNA from Evans' saliva was found on the victim's breasts.
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