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    Shazer Fernando Limas Sentenced to LWOP in 2012 CA Slaying of Arlet Hernandez, Two Sons Still Missing


    Shazer Fernando Limas




    Arlet Hernandez Contreras




    Brea Landfill Search Resumes for Children Believed Dead


    Investigators resumed the search in a landfill for two children believed to be the victims of a man arrested after a standoff on Interstate 5 last week.

    Tuesday's search efforts at the Olinda Alpha Landfill in Brea began at 9 a.m., as two cadaver dogs from the Ventura County Sheriff's Department scoured the area.

    Investigators are looking for a 2-year-old boy and a 4-month-old boy. The body of the boys' mother -- 31-year-old Arlet Hernandez Contreras -- was found April 25 along a freeway. She was identified May 4.

    Her ex-boyfriend and father of the children, Shazer Fernando Limas, was arrested Thursday following a pursuit with police on Interstate 5 near the San Clemente checkpoint.

    The 31-year-old was charged with three counts of special circumstances murder, meaning he is eligible for the death penalty if convicted.

    Limas may have allegedly disposed of the bodies in a trash dumpster, the contents of which were taken to the Brea landfill, police said.

    Authorities are using a bulldozer to dig two to three feet below the surface to let the dogs search the area, Orange Police Department Sgt. Adams said. The dogs search between 20 to 40 feet at a time.

    The search is expected to be completed Tuesday, Adams said.

    Limas made his first court appearance Monday for an arraignment, which was postponed until May 23.

    Prosecutors claim that child support payments may have been at the heart of the crime. Court records show that Limas was to begin paying Contreras $300 a month.

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    Circumstances of the Case

    On April 14, 2012, Limas is accused of stabbing and murdering his girlfriend 31-year-old Arlet Contreras and her sons, 2-year-old Fernando L. and 4-month-old Emmanuel L. at an Orange apartment they occupied in the 3000 block of West Chapman Avenue.

    On April 15, 2012, Limas is accused of going to Long Beach Memorial Hospital for surgery on a cut to his hand.

    On April 24, 2012, Limas is accused of buying a sundry of supplies at a Home Depot. He is accused of moving out of the apartment.

    On April 25, 2012, Limas is accused of disposing of victim Contreras' body, which was found in the City of La Puente by County workers with multiple stab wounds that same day. Her body was found on the street in the gutter.

    On April 28, 2012, Limas is accused of turning in his keys and a letter of notice to vacate to the apartment management.

    On May 3, 2012, Orange Police Department (OPD) was contacted by apartment management about blood found in Limas' vacant apartment. Later that day, at approximately 6:30 p.m., OPD located Limas driving a Nissan 350Z in Santa Ana. Limas is accused of leading police on a high-speed pursuit going south of the Interstate 405 to Interstate 5. The California Highway Patrol took over the pursuit approximately 15 minutes into the pursuit. Limas was detained when his vehicle was disabled by a spike strip and he was arrested at 7:30 pm.

    On May 4, 2012, OPD contacted various County Coroners' Offices and found Contreras' body at the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office.
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    Search ends at landfill for missing boys

    The search for the bodies of two young boys believed to have been killed by their father inside their Orange apartment has concluded without success at a Brea landfill, authorities said.

    Shazer Fernando Limas, 31, has been charged in the stabbing death of his 31-year-old girlfriend, Arlet Hernandez Contreras, whose bloody body was found under a tarp in a gutter in Los Angeles County. He has also been charged with killing his two sons – Fernando, 1, and Emanuel, 3 months – with sentencing enhancements for multiple murders and for using a deadly weapon that could bring him the death penalty.

    Investigators and cadaver-sniffing dogs searched the Brea landfill for several days for the bodies of the boys. Police said they had no specific evidence that led them to the landfill but were searching it on the theory that anything thrown out from Limas' apartment would end up there.

    "We were confident at the end of the search that there wasn't anything there," Orange police Sgt. Dan Adams said, adding that investigators have not determined a specific location they will search next.

    "(Limas) has not told us specifically where the bodies are," he said.

    No one filed a missing report on Contreras or her sons and there was no sign of a disturbance before the blood was discovered, Adams said.

    The investigation began after a manager at Renaissance at Uptown Orange, 3063 W. Chapman Ave., found blood in the vacant apartment where Limas lived with his girlfriend of three years and his two sons, Adams said. Limas moved out on April 28 and a cleaning company found blood on the floor, beneath the carpet and on the walls, he said.

    Limas worked for a commercial-cleaning supply company, but Adams said it was not clear whether he attempted to clean the apartment before he left.

    Limas had been ordered to pay $284 a month in child-support payments to Contreras beginning April 1, court filings show. "That's a possible motive right now," Senior Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons said.

    Prosecutors allege Limas stabbed Contreras and their two sons at their apartment on April 14. They base that, in part, on a hospital visit by Limas the next day to have surgery on a cut on his hand. Police have not recovered the knife used to kill Contreras.

    Limas also visited a Home Depot in the days after the murders, prosecutors say. He bought a tarp, Simmons said; he did not know if he bought anything else and said police are reviewing surveillance tapes.

    Limas disposed of Contreras' body 10 days later, on April 25, according to the District Attorney's Office account. Workers in La Puente found her later that day in the gutter, covered by a tarp, in an area near the 60 and 605 freeways known for trash dumping, prosecutors said.

    Police said it's not clear what else Limas did, or where he was, in the days after the killings. They also do not know where the body of his girlfriend was in the days before it was left on a La Puente Street.

    Limas was arrested on May 3 after he led police on a chase. Police said they began searching for him and the rest of his family after receiving reports of blood in their apartment. Adams said that officers initially were trying to make sure he and the others were safe; they tracked Limas to an office-industrial area near John Wayne Airport and tried to pull him over.

    He stopped his Nissan 350Z near the San Clemente Border Patrol checkpoint and sat in his car for about half an hour before he was detained.

    Investigators contacted neighboring counties as they tried to locate the rest of his family. They learned that the Los Angeles County coroner had an unidentified woman who matched Contreras' description, and confirmed it was her.

    Limas made a brief court appearance Monday. His arraignment was continued until May 23. He was being held without bail at the Orange County Jail.

    http://www.ocregister.com/news/limas...as-police.html
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    Search for Missing Boys Moves to Different Landfill

    Orange detectives today used cadaver dogs to search another landfill for two boys believed murdered by their father, who's also charged with killing their mother.

    Shazer Fernando Limas, arrested May 3, is charged with the murders of his wife, 31-year-old Arlet Hernandez Contreras, and their two boys: year-old Fernando and 3-month-old Emmanuel, in the family's Orange apartment in the 3000 block of West Chapman Ave.

    Contreras' body was found April 25 dumped in La Puente but she was not positively identified until about a week later.

    A search of the Brea Landfill last week found no trace of the boys. Detectives learned that the trash haulers under contract to the apartment complex also took refuse to the Frank Bowerman Landfill in Irvine, Orange police Sgt. Dan Adams said.

    A new search started this morning, Adams said, adding that he expected the painstaking process to last about four days.

    Workers at the landfill have spread out garbage collected from the area around the date of April 14 -- the time detectives believe the killings occurred. That same day Limas allegedly went to a Long Beach hospital to have cut on a hand treated.

    Limas, 31, was charged May 7 with three counts of murder. A special circumstance allegation of multiple murders has been filed, making Limas eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors have not decided whether to seek execution.

    The charges also include a sentencing enhancement allegation of using a deadly weapon, according to Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons.

    Lima's arraignment is set for May 23.

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    Search for children believed buried in landfill will continue

    Police said they will continue to search an Irvine landfill for the bodies of two children prosecutors believe were killed by their father more than a month and a half ago.

    “We will continue searching until we feel that the area of concentration at the landfill has been completed,” said Sgt. Dan Adams of the Orange Police Department. “At this point, I don’t know how many more days or hours that will take."

    Shazer Fernando Limas, 31, was charged with three counts of special-circumstances murder in early May, which makes him eligible for the death penalty.

    Investigators believe he stabbed and killed his girlfriend, Arlet Hernandez Contreras, and their two sons, ages 1 year and 3 months, in their apartment in Orange on April 15.

    Contreras’ body was found in a gutter in La Puente 10 days after she disappeared. The boys' bodies have not been recovered.

    Adams said Limas has been cooperative with investigators.

    “He just hasn’t told us where the bodies of the two boys are,” he said.

    In early May, investigators focused on a Brea landfill before turning their attention to Irvine.

    Refuse from the apartment were Limas lived are taken to both landfills.

    Adams added that police do not have any other leads in the case.

    “There are no immediate plans to search anywhere else at this point,” he said.

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    Man denies killing girlfriend, sons


    SANTA ANA - A former Orange resident pleaded not guilty Tuesday to killing his girlfriend and their two sons.

    The woman's body was discovered under a tarp in an East Valinda Street on April 25. The children's bodies haven't been found yet, according to Orange County District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Farrah Emami.

    Shazer Fernando Limas, 31, was arraigned Tuesday at Central Jail in Santa Ana on three counts of special circumstances murder for committing multiple murders.

    The special circumstances makes Limas eligible for the death penalty.

    He was also charged with sentencing enhancements for the multiple murders and the personal use of a deadly weapon.

    Emami said Limas' next court appearance is Oct. 5 at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana for a pre-trial hearing.

    Arlet Contreras, 31, and her sons, 2-year-old Fernando and 4-month-old Emmanuel, were killed April 14 at an apartment in the 3000 block of West Chapman Avenue in Orange.

    Authorities alleged Limas dumped Contreras' body April 25 on MacLaren Street which is in the unincorporated county area of East Valinda.

    A Los Angeles County Department of Public Works crew looking for illegally dumped trash found the body.

    On May 3, a cleaner found blood on the carpet in the couple's former apartment and called Orange police. Limas was arrested after a high-speed chase that ended on the 5 Freeway.

    http://www.sgvtribune.com/20120807/m...irlfriend-sons
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    Triple-murder case could be affected by improper Orange County jail phone recordings

    By Tony Saavedra
    Orange County Register

    A triple-murder case - involving 2 children missing since 2012 and presumed dead - could be affected by the improper recording of telephone calls between Orange County jail inmates and their attorneys.

    About 34 recorded calls by defendant Shazer Fernando Limas to his lawyer were accessed by law enforcement, attorney Joel Garson said Sunday. Garson's prodding as part of another felony case led to the discovery that 1,079 calls between inmates and lawyers had been recorded since January 2015.

    It is a crime to record attorney-client calls from the jail, as well as a violation of one of the most sacrosanct tenets of the law.

    The sheriff's telephone contractor acknowledged in a July 27 letter to Sheriff Sandra Hutchens that 87 recordings were accessed. Among those were calls involving Limas' case as well as Garson's case representing Joshua Waring, the son of former "Real Wives of Orange County" cast member Lauri Peterson. Waring faces attempted murder charges for a Costa Mesa shooting, but Garson is attempting to get the case dismissed by the court because of "outrageous government conduct."

    Limas is accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and killing their 2 young sons in their apartment in Orange. The body of their mother, Arlet Hernandez Contreras, 31, was found in 2012 under a tarp in a gutter in Los Angeles County. The bodies of the children - ages 1 and 3 at the time - have not been found.

    Revelations that telephone carrier GTL Corp. apparently recorded the confidential conversations because of a technical glitch rocked Orange County's justice community last week, with estimates that more than 50 high-profile cases could be affected.

    The gaffe comes on the heels of Orange County's snitch scandal and the misuse by deputies and prosecutors of jailhouse informants to secure convictions. That practice led to the removal of the District Attorney's Office from prosecuting Scott Dekraai, who killed 8 people in a 2011 shooting spree in Seal Beach. Dekraai also was given life imprisonment instead of the death penalty because of the informant problem.

    In the latest breach, Hutchens as well as the District Attorney's Office said they would take whatever steps are necessary to investigate the problem and handle the fallout with cases.

    Garson said GTL maintains a list of 1,300 attorneys whose calls are not to be recorded. But all but 72 attorneys fell off the list when GTL did a software upgrade in January 2015. A representative from GTL is expected to testify in the Waring case on Thursday. Garson said at least 2 calls between Waring and his alternate public defender were recorded and accessed.

    Meanwhile, a hearing is set for Monday to determine whether an outside judge should be appointed to review the recordings and determine which defense attorneys should be sent copies. If approved, the Sheriff's Department and District Attorney's Office would be barred from listening to the tapes.

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    CA man convicted of stabbing girlfriend to death and killing her 2 baby sons

    California man let the victims’ bodies rot in a closet for 10 days before dumping them outside

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    A Southern California man was convicted Wednesday of stabbing to death his girlfriend and killing her two baby sons, whose bodies were never found.

    Shazer Fernando Limas, 42, of Orange, was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances of committing multiple murders. He could face life without possibility of parole when he is sentenced in February.

    Limas stabbed 31-year-old Arlet Hernandez Contreras 48 times at his home in April 2012 following an argument a day or two earlier, the Orange County district attorney's office said in a statement.

    Prosecutors said he then killed her sons, 16-month-old Fernando Hernandez Limas and 2-month-old Emanuel Hernandez Limas.

    Limas, who also had another girlfriend, "let the bodies of Conteras and boys rot in a balcony closet for 10 days while he continued to go to dance clubs, rented limos, and even had friends over to his apartment," the DA's office said.

    After bleaching blood stains from his carpet, Limas loaded Contreras's body into a large chest and drove it in a rented U-Haul to an industrial area in neighboring Los Angeles County, where her body was found dumped in a gutter, prosecutors said.

    After getting rid of that body, Limas is believed to have driven another 100 miles to dispose of the bodies of the children, which were never found, prosecutors said.

    "He killed his entire family and threw them away like trash," District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement.

    A few days later, Limas broke his lease on his apartment.

    "Management from the apartment contacted the Orange Police Department after workers reported a suspicious smell, blood spatter on walls and pools of blood under the bleached carpet," the DA's statement said.

    Limas was arrested following a high-speed chase on two freeways.

    https://www.foxnews.com/us/ca-man-co...ng-2-baby-sons
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    Orange County man sentenced to life in prison for killing girlfriend, young sons then spending following days partying

    Travis Schlepp

    An Orange County man has been sentenced to three consecutive life sentences in prison for stabbing his girlfriend to death and killing their two young sons.

    Shazer Fernando Limas of Orange was found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder in December.


    More than a decade ago, Limas stabbed and killed Arlet Hernandez Contreras, his 31-year-old girlfriend. He then killed their 16-month-old son, Fernando, and their 2-month-old, Emanuel.

    Arlet’s body was found dumped in a gutter where it was discovered she was stabbed 48 times. The bodies of the two children have never been found.

    On April 12, 2012, Contreras brought their two sons to Limas’ apartment in Orange. An argument broke out between the two and Contreras left with their children after police were called. But officials say she returned later that day with their children.

    At some point over the next two days, Limas would eventually kill both his girlfriend and their children.

    Investigators say he stored all three bodies in a balcony closet at his apartment where they sat rotting for ten days. All the while, Limas continued to go out to nightclubs, rent limousines and have friends come over to visit, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office said.

    He used bleach to clean his carpets and rearranged furniture to cover the blood stains, the DA’s Office said.

    He also apparently got a new girlfriend, whom he lied to about his injured hands, blaming them on a fight he got into while out with friends.

    More than a week after he killed his ex and their children, Limas loaded up their bodies into a U-Haul that was rented under someone else’s name. He then dumped Arlet’s body in an industrial area in Los Angeles County. He then drove that same truck more than 100 miles away from where he dumped her body. Investigators believe the bodies of his children were disposed of during that time.

    Arlet’s body was found the next day while Limas broke his lease and moved out of his apartment. Property managers contacted police after discovering a bloody crime scene and strange odors inside the apartment.

    Authorities were eventually able to track him down, which led to a high-speed pursuit on the 405 and 5 freeways before he was ultimately taken into custody. His dead girlfriend’s cell phone was with him inside the vehicle during his arrest.

    Limas was convicted on Dec. 14, 2022 on what would’ve been his son Fernando’s 12th birthday, according to the DA’s’ Office.

    Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer called the murder of Contreras and her two young children senseless and said Limas has still refused to take responsibility for their deaths.

    “A young mother and her two young sons deserved so much more than to be left to rot in a closet and discarded like trash by the very person who was supposed to protect them,” said Spitzer.

    The DA added that, even following his conviction and sentencing, Limas has refused to disclose the location where the bodies of his children were left.

    “These innocent babies were completely defenseless victims who were subjected to an unspeakable amount of callousness and violence and the defendant will be forever haunted by the cries of his own children as he murdered them,” Spitzer said.

    Limas, who is 42 years old now, will serve three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.

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