Summary of Offense:
Hronis and co-defendant John Anthony Bertsch were convicted of abducting 35-year-old Linda Ann Canady on December 22, 1985 from the Arden Fair Mall parking lot, then raping and murdering her and dumping her bound and gagged body into a drainage ditch in Imperial County. The case evolved into one of the most protracted in Sacramento history. The two were arrested in 1990 but charges were dismissed over evidence problems three years later. Charges were refiled in 1995 and the trial eventually took nine months to complete, generating 49,000 pages of court records.
Hronis and Bertsch were sentenced to death in Sacramento County on December 19, 2000.
For more on Bertsch, see: http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...hlight=bertsch
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