District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Cano won’t face the death penalty and will instead serve a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
A convicted sex offender, accused of carrying out the serial killings of four Orange County women with his best friend nearly a decade ago, pleaded guilty on Thursday, Dec. 15.
Now, more than seven years after getting charged with the killings — and five years after Gordon was convicted of them — Cano pleaded guilty in a Santa Ana courtroom after years of being accused of the abductions, sexual assaults and killings of Kianna Jackson, 20; Josephine Vargas, 34; Martha Anaya, 28; and Jarrae Estepp, 21.
Kianna Jackson, 20, of Las Vegas is one of four women suspected of being murdered by Steven Dean Gordon and Franc Cano. Cano awaits trial. Gordon has been convicted of murder. Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, a 21-year-old from Oklahoma. Her body was found on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in Anaheim. She one of four women suspected of being killed by Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon. Cano awaits trail. Gordon has been convicted of murder. Cano and Gordon were also accused of also killing a fifth woman, 19-year-old Sable Pickett, but never charged with that crime.
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