Teddy Brian Sanchez
Facts of the Crime:
Woodrow Wilson Tatman was a 73-year-old invalid who relied on a wheelchair for mobility when he was killed by Teddy Brian Sanchez on February 2, 1987. He lived on Social Security payments and died in a shabby room at a shabby motel on Union Avenue. On February 3, 1987, Juan "Johnny" Bocanegra, 61, and his wife, Juanita Bocanegra, 52, apparently also were killed for their Social Security checks. He was a retired salesman; she was a homemaker, according to an obituary published a few days after their murder. The couple left behind two sons, five grandchildren and many other family members.
Sanchez was sentenced to death in Kern County on October 31, 1988.
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