Summary of Offense:
Sentenced to death in Riverside County on November 22, 1999 for the murders of two girls and a young mother in a Riverside apartment he set on fire with the mother's baby inside. The seven-month-old boy was saved when firefighters discovered the bodies of Tricia Powalka, 19, Amanda Elliott, 15, and Corina Gandara, 12, inside the smoke-filled apartment on the morning of August 10, 1995. All three had been stabbed and slashed and Elliott had also been shot.
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